Tesla Robotaxi launch, new Nissan Leaf, Ford low cost EVs, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 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 the Tesla Robotaxi launch this weekend, the new Nissan Leaf, Ford's upcoming low-cost EVs, and more.
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
Today, the episode is live at 8 a.m instead due to Fred's travels in China.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors
- Tesla releases details about ‘Robotaxi’ launch: there’s a ‘safety monitor’ in front seat
- Waymo expands CA service area by ~50% just before Tesla robotaxi launch
- Tesla (TSLA) plans to pause production at Gigafactory Texas for second time in 2 months
- Tesla hacker reveals a new Model Y with 6 seats is in the works
- Finally! The Nissan LEAF has been reborn as a new 2026 crossover, and it has NACS! [Video]
- The 2026 Chevy Silverado EV is here and it’s a long-range powerhouse
- Ford believes its low-cost EV platform will go head-to-head with China
- Ford is halting Mustang Mach-E sales due to a recall impacting over 300,000 vehicles
- Say hello to the ID. Buzz AD: VW’s fully autonomous ride is here
- Switzerland killed study proving upgrading to an electric car is good for the environment
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 8:00 a.m. ET (or the video after 9 a.m. ET):
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And we are live for a new episode of Theoretic podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:04.1 | As usual, I'm joined by Set Winchow. |
| 0:06.6 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:07.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:09.4 | All right. |
| 0:10.3 | We're doing the podcast a little bit early, |
| 0:12.3 | but early for a set because I'm in China right now. |
| 0:16.0 | And plenty of things to do, very busy and all that. |
| 0:20.2 | And I've been inia for a month now |
| 0:23.3 | and i've been able to like try to do it on the saturday morning and keep the time right for you guys |
| 0:28.5 | because i know some of you like to join live at the regular time but unfortunately like this one |
| 0:34.5 | like tomorrow was going to be crazy for me starting a new drive program with our friend at Xiaomi, which should be very interesting. |
| 0:43.1 | I cannot talk about too much about it until next week, but maybe, yeah, I think maybe on next week's episode I'm going to be able to talk about it. |
| 0:50.3 | So that's good. |
| 0:52.6 | But today I was with Neo, which was insane. I got to try the |
| 0:57.0 | ET9, which is a banger of a vehicle. Like it's top of the line Chinese luxury. |
| 1:05.0 | Great vehicle, great suspension, a lot to love about this car. But also said, i experienced the battery swap for the first time oh |
| 1:13.6 | interesting and and it is very interesting because you know we we had battery swap in america for a very |
| 1:22.1 | short period of time with tesla but it was purely you know a-tuple to get the motor tax credit out of the vehicle |
| 1:29.4 | because California had this weird rule for a while that if you could recharge the battery in five minutes, |
| 1:36.1 | you get like twice or three times the credit or something like that. |
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