Tesla's 'flying' Roadster, Elon's pay, new EVs from Japan, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 53 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 'flying' Roadster, Elon's pay package, new EVs unveiled at Japan's mobility show, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Elon Musk says Tesla Roadster ‘flying’ demo is coming
- Tesla ‘Robotaxis’ keep crashing despite ‘safety monitors’
- Tesla Full Self-Driving v14 disappoints with hallucinations, brake stabbing, and speeding
- Tesla signals Cybercab might actually get a steering wheel
- Elon Musk is not leaving Tesla, but he is using the threat as blackmail
- Canada is rumored to imminently remove tariffs on Chinese electric cars
- Lucid’s (LCID) $50,000 midsize EVs will offer ‘mind-off’ Level 4 autonomy
- This electric hot hatch is the Subaru STI we deserve
- The Toyota Corolla EV is bringing a sharp new look, but that’s just the start [Images]
- Kia delays EV4 indefinitely – America loses more choice due to tariffs
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 Detic Podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintram. |
| 0:13.4 | Are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:14.4 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.6 | All right. |
| 0:17.7 | All right, what are we going to talk about today? |
| 0:19.9 | We're going to talk about, I mean, our friend, Enon Musk is on the, just dropped the hot new podcast with Joe Rogan today. |
| 0:26.9 | And I put it real quick. |
| 0:29.3 | I couldn't like, literally was a few hours ago. |
| 0:31.5 | I didn't have time to read the, to listen to the three-hour podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | So I dropped it in Gemini to make sure I'm not missing anything about Tesla specifically. |
| 0:39.0 | And out of the three hours, he talked a good 10 minutes about Tesla. |
| 0:43.3 | So I was able to watch that at least. |
| 0:45.3 | I tell you any new information coming out of that in a few minutes. |
| 0:50.0 | Then we're going to talk about Robotaxy, where we actually have some useful data about |
| 0:54.5 | your robo taxi, thanks to Tesla to a degree. |
| 0:59.2 | A little V-14, FSDV-14 data that came out. |
| 1:03.0 | We're going to talk about CyberCab, new information coming from Robin and Holmes doing the little |
| 1:09.1 | media tour right now for the composition package, |
| 1:12.6 | which we're going to talk a little bit about two. |
| 1:15.6 | Then Canada may be getting Chinese EVs. There's new rumors going around. |
| 1:20.6 | Lucid talked a little bit about its autonomous roadmap involving its mid-sized EVs coming next year. |
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