Tesla Robotaxi setback, Mercedes-Benz CLA EV, Bollinger is over, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 50 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 a big Tesla Robotaxi setback, the new Mercedes-Benz CLA EV, Bollinger is over, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Elon Musk slashes Tesla Robotaxi fleet goal from 500 to ~60 in Austin
- Elon Musk admits other automakers don’t want to license Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’
- Tesla announces expected FSD approval date in Europe, regulators deny
- Tesla faces class action over Powerwall recall that leaves people with bricked batteries
- The Mercedes-Benz CLA EV starts at under $48,000 with impressive driving range
- Bollinger Motors is dead again – probably for good this time
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 alive for a new episode of The Electric Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.4 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth, one job, but this time he's coming us live from Cuba. |
| 0:13.3 | How is communist Cuba, Seth? |
| 0:15.4 | It's great. |
| 0:18.8 | Before we jump into the show, let me give a quick thank you to today's sponsor. |
| 0:24.1 | Today's episode is brought to you by Climate Exchange, a nonpartisan, non-profit, |
| 0:29.1 | working to help states pass effective, equitable climate policies, |
| 0:33.5 | sells N on December 8 for its 10th annual EV raffle, where participants have multiple opportunities to win their dream models. |
| 0:42.0 | Visit carbon raffle.org slash electric to learn more. |
| 0:48.5 | You have the link in the show notes. |
| 0:50.2 | You have the link on the YouTube description. |
| 0:52.7 | And we'll tell you a little bit more about them later on in the show. |
| 1:00.5 | All right. |
| 1:01.5 | Obviously, Thanksgiving weekend, Thanksgiving week. |
| 1:05.0 | So not that much news coming out. |
| 1:07.2 | We have only one, two, three, four, five, six little pieces of news that I wanted to |
| 1:12.3 | highlight during the podcast. So we're going to do that. And at the end, we're going to have |
| 1:16.5 | plenty of time to take you guys' question. It shouldn't be too long of a show this week just because |
| 1:20.5 | the amount of news. But let's start out with Tesla, as usual. And it's a robot taxi heavy. |
| 1:28.7 | I mean, that's why I don't like being on the Tesla beat these days is just like 90% |
| 1:35.6 | of the news coming from Tesla is like autonomy stuff. |
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