Tesla's cheaper EV model comes and goes, FSD v15, Rivian R2 EPA numbers, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 59 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 cheaper EV model coming and going in the same week, FSD v15, Rivian R2 EPA numbers, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) reportedly developing new smaller, cheaper EV after killing Model 2
- Tesla China denies developing new smaller, cheaper SUV — but take it with a grain of salt
- Tesla FSD v14.3 rolls out with MLIR rewrite, 20% faster reactions
- Musk says Tesla FSD v15 will ‘far exceed’ human safety — he said the same about v12 and v14
- Tesla’s new Supercharger for Business tool reveals $940,000 all-in price
- Rivian R2 EPA numbers: 217 kW charge, up to 328mi range, heat pump (updated)
- VW replaces US ID.4 production with 18mpg Atlas SUV as gas prices spike
- Honda is bringing its ‘funky, cute’ EV hot hatch overseas for under $27,000
- Hyundai unveils two new IONIQ EV concepts, an electric sedan and family SUV [Images]
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 | I just add on my screen and we are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host and as usual, I'm joining by Seth Windram. |
| 0:10.3 | Are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:11.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.9 | All right, good thing that you're good because we have plenty of talk about this week. |
| 0:16.5 | We had the kind of like a little teaser that Tesla might still be a car company and might still be |
| 0:23.1 | working on new vehicle programs. |
| 0:25.1 | And that was shut down quickly earlier today, even though I think there's still some hope |
| 0:32.2 | for it. |
| 0:33.2 | We're going to dive into that. |
| 0:34.6 | Then we're going to talk about V14.3. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm talking about FSD here. |
| 0:39.7 | And V15, which is now set now V15 unsupervised, safer than human. |
| 0:45.8 | That's locked in. |
| 0:48.1 | It's V15. |
| 0:48.9 | It's happening. |
| 0:50.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:50.8 | Yep. |
| 0:51.3 | We got some great data on Tesla supercharger at a cost of deploying them, at least the cost, |
| 0:57.0 | what Tesla is charging for it. |
| 0:58.5 | So obviously there's some profit on top of it, but it's a very interesting data into the |
| 1:03.1 | cost of deploying DC fast charger, which we think we're pretty confident that Tesla is |
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