Tesla Robotaxi numbers, Ferrari's controversial Luce launches, Waymo Ojai, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 66 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 alarming Robotaxi numbers, Ferrari's controversial Luce, Waymo Ojai, and more.
Today’s episode is sponsored by GM Energy. If you want to experience more resilience and control over your home energy, the GM Energy Home System adds stationary battery power for always-ready backup energy for your home, and the GM Energy PowerBank takes in energy from the grid and stores it for when you need it most. Learn more at gmenergy.gm.com
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
Special: This week, the podcast will start at 3 p.m. ET because Fred is still in Italy after the launch of the Luce.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ fleet is actually shrinking, not growing, new data shows
- Tesla’s own AI trainers don’t trust ‘Full Self-Driving’ or its safety stats, Reuters finds
- Rivian R2 matches Tesla Model Y efficiency despite bigger, heavier body
- Ferrari Luce first look: going where combustion can’t follow
- Ferrari CEO says Luce EV is ‘clocking up orders’ despite design backlash
- Waymo starts offering rides in new Ojai robotaxi with 6th-gen Driver
- Chevy Equinox and Blazer EVs gain a few key updates for 2027: Here’s what to expect
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. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:04.8 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchow. |
| 0:07.1 | Are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:08.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:09.8 | All right. |
| 0:10.4 | I want to give a quick thank you to today's episode sponsored GM Energy. |
| 0:15.0 | If you want to experience, to experience more resilient and control over your own energy, the GM energy home system, |
| 0:23.5 | adds stationary battery power for always ready backup energy for your home. |
| 0:28.1 | And the GM energy power banks takes an energy from the grid and stores it when you need it the |
| 0:33.2 | most. |
| 0:34.1 | Learn more at gmenergy.gm.com. we're going to say a little bit more about their offering |
| 0:41.3 | later on on the show so stay tuned for that but yeah big show this week we are a little bit |
| 0:47.7 | a little bit early because i well early for you guys it's late for me I'm in I'm still in Italy right now I'm |
| 0:56.3 | in sorry about the lighting too by the way I'm literally a monk monastery right now so |
| 1:02.3 | the lighting situation is the best I could put together but yeah I came here for |
| 1:09.0 | the lunch of the Ferrari luce, which... |
| 1:12.6 | Controversial. |
| 1:13.6 | To say the least, to see the least, it might be the most hated vehicles since the |
| 1:22.6 | Cybertruck, I would assume, Easily. Yeah. |
| 1:27.6 | But, I mean, there's a lot to talk about. |
| 1:30.0 | So we'll keep the luce here for a little bit later on. |
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