Tesla Model Y RWD, Cybertruck bait-and-switch, Rivian earnings, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla Model Y RWD in the US, Cybertruck bait-and-switch, Rivian earnings, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla launches cheaper Model Y RWD in the US
- Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won’t get Autosteer feature they paid for
- Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range
- Tesla (TSLA) shareholders get excited for ‘Tesla prototype’ that turn out to be a competitor’s
- Tesla’s NACS connector will be used by Mazda’s EVs in Japan
- GOP leader confirms plan to kill $7,500 EV tax credit in budget
- Rivian’s (RIVN) Q1 2025 report details highest gross profits to date, R2 validations underway
- Jeep’s most affordable SUV is now electric: The Compass EV is here with +400 miles range
- Toyota’s sleek new C-HR+ electric SUV arrives in Norway with over 370 miles range
- Nissan pulls the plug on its +$1 billion EV battery plant as the alarm bells go off
- Waymo plans to more than double its self-driving I-PACE fleet within the next year
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:10.8 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:11.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.9 | All right. |
| 0:13.8 | We have plenty of talk about this week. |
| 0:16.2 | We have the new Model Y rear-wheel drive being launched in the U.S. |
| 0:19.4 | We have the cyber truck paid-end switch on the on the auto steer, range extender being killed, |
| 0:25.7 | a little quick, cheeky prototype. |
| 0:29.6 | We have the tax credit to talk about, a little update on it. |
| 0:33.5 | Nothing too surprising. |
| 0:34.6 | We have the Rivian earnings, and we have a bunch of EVs from Jeep, from Toyota, and too surprising. We have the Rivian earnings and we have a bunch of EVs from |
| 0:37.8 | Jeep, from Toyota, and some updates from Nissan and Waymo to talk about. So a big show today, |
| 0:45.7 | but it's going to move quite fast and we're going to have time to talk to you guys. So I know |
| 0:51.5 | you guys are still coming in right now, but if you're on the stream, |
| 0:54.7 | we are alive and we take questions and answer. We interact with the chat, specifically in the |
| 0:59.7 | second half or, you know, tail end of the show. So if you have any question for us, you can put them |
| 1:04.9 | in the comment section right now and get to it. And if you do enjoy the podcast, please give us a |
| 1:09.5 | like, a subscribe and all those things. They help the show a ton. And we appreciate if you do enjoy the podcast please give us a like a subscribe and all those things |
| 1:10.9 | they help the show a ton and uh we appreciate when you do all right the model y real drive |
| 1:17.1 | long range has been launched in the u.s so this is not too surprising we started seeing the |
| 1:23.3 | model y model y new model y long range all will drive starting to get an inventory so generally that |
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