Tesla protests, Rivian earnings, Kia's new EVs, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 51 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 protests, Rivian's earnings, Kia's new electric vehicles, and more.
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla was hit by a wave of protests over Musk, sales are crashing, insiders are waking up
- Nissan turning to Tesla as potential investor after Honda deal fell through
- Tesla Cybertruck is not the death machine that some claimed, gets 5-star NHTSA rating
- Tesla deliveries expected to go down to levels not seen in more than 2 years
- Tesla to finally launch Supercharger wait queue after fight broke out
- First look at Tesla’s first ‘public’ electric semi truck charging station
- Rivian (RIVN) hit its gross profit goal in Q4, now what?
- Rivian announces new offroad-focused ‘California Dune Edition’ R1
- Here’s our first look at the Genesis GV90 with coach doors: The next ultra-luxe EV
- The electric Jeep Compass may be a pipe dream after all
- Kia unveils first look at its new PV5: This is the electric van we’ve been waiting for
- Kia finally pulls the covers off its new EV4: Here’s our first look at the low-cost 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 | And we are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:03.8 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winthrop coming us live from the Dominican Republic. Are you doing Seth? I'm good. All right. We might have a little bit of a delay. We might talk over each other a little bit more on this show because there's a tiny bit of a delay going on. We're not sure what's going on. might might be the distance because set isn't, well, we're probably then again. It's not too far from when we usually |
| 0:24.7 | are, but myself, I'm still in the Arctic Circle now in Sweden, in the north of Sweden, where I came |
| 0:32.2 | today for to test out the pole star lineup on ice. And so we're going to talk a little bit about that later on on |
| 0:39.9 | this show and I haven't wrote an article on it yet because it literally just happened yesterday |
| 0:45.0 | but I can still talk to you guys about it a little bit because there's no embargo and it |
| 0:49.8 | was it was quite fun let me put myself on that disturbed here all right um but we have plenty of other |
| 0:58.8 | things to talk about we're gonna as you'll start with a few tesla stuff and then get into the irivians |
| 1:04.1 | earnings a couple of other rivian news a few uh we we have another one that bite the dust because of the, another EV that bite the |
| 1:13.6 | dust because of the Trump tariffs and changes. |
| 1:17.3 | And then we have a little bit of a preview of what we're going to talk probably a lot about |
| 1:21.0 | on the next week's episode of the electric podcast because the Kia, I think they call it |
| 1:25.6 | the EV day. |
| 1:26.4 | Like they're big on Veeling is coming up next week, I think on Monday. |
| 1:29.4 | And they released a bunch of previews this week that are going to be interesting. |
| 1:34.6 | But yeah, last week's episode, we talked about the test of protest that were coming in this week over Ellen Musk. |
| 1:41.5 | And we looked at the result of that this week over the weekend |
| 1:46.6 | and looks like there was kind of a significant turnout across dozens of stores in |
| 1:52.8 | North America specifically but if you in Europe too and people are there trying to |
| 1:58.6 | peacefully disrupt Tesla's operation for the weekend, try to get people behind the idea of not financing Elon Musk's hostile takeover of the government through Tesla. |
| 2:14.6 | And this is good to see because we're seeing some bad protests about Tesla too |
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