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Tesla Robotaxi grift, Volvo EX60 is a beast, Aptera in danger, and more

Electrek

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Musk, Automotive, Clean, Leisure/automotive, 3, Vehicles, Leisure, Elon, Tesla, Evs, Energy, Electrek, Electric, Technology, Model

4.3621 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 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's latest Robotaxi grift, Volvo EX60 being a beast, Aptera in danger, and more.

The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in.

After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps:

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Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET:

https://www.youtube.com/live/61HaA9hkMGA

Transcript

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0:00.0

And we are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast.

0:10.8

I am Fred Lambert, your host.

0:12.6

And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra.

0:14.5

Are you doing in this cold Friday, said?

0:17.3

It's going to be colder.

0:18.5

I'm doing well.

0:20.0

Yes, for everyone that's listening right now, if you're listening live or if you're listening

0:24.7

after the fact of this weekend, I hope you're safe out there, hope you're staying warm,

0:28.8

and if you're brave enough to go outside, do it well-equipped. It's going to be a good one.

0:34.0

It's going to be a fun one, a lot of snow. I mean, fun one, but it's always fun here

0:39.4

when you're in Quebec and in Canada or even like you in the northern part of the U.S.

0:45.4

where you're, you know, the government and the local municipalities and everything are well

0:50.3

prepared for these events because they happen often.

0:54.6

But then when you see like Texas and like the Carolinas and places like that, they get

0:59.4

snow that are not used to to see them freak out.

1:01.8

It's a little bit funny, even though it's not too funny because this one might be like a big

1:07.3

enough one that some people might actually die from this unfortunately.

1:11.5

What usually happens is weird stuff like people start generators in their garage and

1:16.9

then they kill themselves or they're in their car in their garage trying to stay warm.

1:21.6

Yeah.

1:22.1

Yeah, it's going to be crazy.

1:24.3

Like minus 20, minus 30 stuff is coming.

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