Tesla Optimus fail, Rivian AI/Autonomy day, Mercedes GLB EV, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 60 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 a very telling Tesla Optimus fail, Rivian's AI/Autonomy day, Mercedes GLB EV, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo
- Tesla US sales drop to under 40,000 units following tax credit expiration, lowest in years
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims driverless Robotaxis coming to Austin in 3 weeks
- Rivian AI & Autonomy Day: In-house silicon chip, next-gen AI platform, LiDAR for Level 4 self-driving [Video]
- Subaru’s new electric SUV delivers over 300 miles range and it starts at under $35,000
- The Mercedes GLB is back as an electric SUV and it’s better in just about every way [Images]
- Global EV sales jump 21% in 2025 as Europe surges and the US stalls
- Ford and SK On kill massive $11.4B US battery joint venture, split factories between them
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 | And we are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:09.2 | And as a jean, I'm joining by Seth Wincham. |
| 0:11.2 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.3 | All right. |
| 0:16.2 | Big show today. |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to start with... |
| 0:19.0 | We're going to start with we're going to start with the |
| 0:22.3 | Tesla Optimus fell that was really |
| 0:24.6 | revealing last weekend that happened last weekend |
| 0:28.2 | right after the podcast, but talked a little bit |
| 0:30.4 | about it on the show. Then we're going to talk |
| 0:32.6 | about the U.S. EVS.E.S. |
| 0:34.5 | especially Tesla following |
| 0:36.5 | the tax credit expiration. |
| 0:39.4 | Then Elon just updated his always useful Rubble Taxi timeline, but this one is a close one. |
| 0:47.0 | So it's something to watch for the next few weeks. |
| 0:49.3 | Then we're going to talk about Rivian's AI and Autonomy Day. |
| 0:53.9 | So that was this week and it was a big, |
| 0:55.9 | a bunch of big announcement. Then we have a few new car on Viting. Well, I mean, we've seen |
| 1:00.9 | these cars before, but we have for the Subaru uncharted. We have the final pricing and specs in |
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