Tesla Model YL, more Tesla probes and lawsuits, new Nissan Leaf pricing, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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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 the launch of the Tesla Model YL, more Tesla probes and lawsuits, new Nissan Leaf pricing, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla officially launches Model YL with 6 seats, starting at ~$47,000
- Elon Musk says Tesla might never bring its new Model YL to US, and the reason is so stupid
- Tesla raises Model S/X prices, but bundles ‘Full Self-Driving’ and brings back free Supercharging
- Tesla is under NHTSA probe for not properly reporting crashes involving Autopilot and FSD
- Tesla loses bid to kill class action over misleading customers on self-driving capabilities for years
- The 2026 Nissan LEAF is the most affordable EV with prices starting under $30,000
- BYD undercuts rivals with low Atto 2 EV prices
- Kia just built its first EV in Europe
- Hyundai halts production of another luxury EV
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. |
| 0:10.4 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:11.8 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:14.3 | Are we doing today, Seth? |
| 0:16.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:17.1 | All right. |
| 0:18.4 | We have a lot of things to talk about this week. We're going to talk, |
| 0:21.8 | obviously, about the launch of the Model YL, the new larger wheelbase model Y succeeder. |
| 0:29.0 | Good news, bad news on that front. And then we have Tesla going locks, which is a luxury |
| 0:37.1 | package on S&X and now also today the cyber truck, Cyber Beast. |
| 0:41.3 | Then we have new lawsuits and probes against Tesla. |
| 0:45.3 | We have the new Nissan Leaf pricing that has been released this week. |
| 0:49.3 | Very aggressive pricing. We love to see it. |
| 0:52.3 | Then, yeah, new BYD vehicle launching in the UK. |
| 0:56.8 | And the UK is an interesting market because it doesn't have the same tariffs as the European |
| 1:02.6 | markets on Chinese EV. |
| 1:04.7 | It's like it's one of the most competitive market out there other than for electric vehicles |
| 1:09.8 | under than China. |
| 1:12.2 | So a very interesting one. |
| 1:20.4 | And then a little Kia Hyundai news after that new vehicle being produced, one being stopped production. |
| 1:21.6 | All right. |
| 1:21.8 | Let's talk about the YL, the large model Y. |
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