Tesla Robotaxi odds, Rivian R1 Quad, Hyundai Ioniq 9, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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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 Robotaxi odds, Rivian R1 Quad, Hyundai Ioniq 9, and more
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla slashes prices in Canada despite tariffs as sales basically go to 0
- Tesla Semi efficiency improves in real-world trucking test covering 4,494 miles over 3 weeks
- Elon Musk says Tesla Robotaxi is coming to California, but no one other than shareholders beleive him
- Elon Musk says Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles just after it went full Hitler
- Tesla (TSLA) pushes its shareholders annual meeting all the way to November, but why?
- Rivian R1 Quad kick turns into the new EV Halo car brand
- Hyundai Ioniq 9 first drive: Stylish SUV outside, spacious and versatile 3-row minivan inside
- The Hyundai IONIQ 6 N is here and it’s even better than expected
- NIO (NIO) opens orders for the new three-row Onvo L90, starting at under $30,000
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET:
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| 0:00.0 | We are live for a new episode of the Lajek podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | I am Fred Lambert, your host and as you're joined by Seth Wicham. |
| 0:12.2 | Are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:13.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:14.2 | All right. |
| 0:15.2 | Boat back to our regular situation after a few months in the road, a few weeks for you. |
| 0:25.0 | And now we have plenty of talk about. |
| 0:27.9 | We have a Tesla Robotaxi update. |
| 0:31.5 | We have Tesla semi-update. |
| 0:34.7 | We have the pricing in Canada's been updated today. Seth's going to talk to us a little bit about the Rivian R1 quad that was just launched this week. Also, he did a review of the Ionic 9 that's going to talk to us a little bit about. And then we have a couple of EVs that were just launched or new versions of EVs that we are going to talk to you about. But first of, I want to say a quick thank you to today's episode, sponsor, which is brought to you |
| 0:59.0 | by Bosch Mobility Aftermarket, a global leader and trusted provider of automotive aftermarket |
| 1:04.7 | parts. |
| 1:05.1 | To celebrate Amazon Prime Day, Bosch Mobility is offering exclusive saving on must-have auto parts and tools. Today is the final day for the Prime Day savings Bush Mobility is offering exclusive saving on must have auto parts and tools. |
| 1:12.0 | Today is the final day for the Prime Day savings. |
| 1:14.3 | So hurry and grab those botch cells before they disappear. |
| 1:17.8 | You can learn more through their Amazon store linked in the description of the show notes. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm going to talk a little bit more about them and some of the specific discounts |
| 1:27.6 | and products that you can get your hands on later on the show. So stay tuned for that. |
| 1:32.9 | All right. First of all, let's talk about the Canadian pricing. We know that we have a lot |
| 1:37.3 | of listeners in Canada and also a lot of people that just cares about the Tesla business in |
| 1:41.8 | general. So that's important on both sides here. If you haven't in general, so that's important for on both sides here. |
| 1:45.2 | If you haven't been following, so since the, since the US went hostile in Canada regarding |
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