Tesla's mission is no longer 'sustainable', VW Buzz lives, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 40 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 mission is no longer being 'sustainable', VW Buzz is still alive, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Elon Musk drops ‘sustainable’ from Tesla’s mission as he completes his villain arc
- Tesla’s Robotaxi project in Austin is much smaller than Musk claims
- Honda buys out EV battery plant in the US for nearly $3B as it preps for an all-new lineup
- Watch BYD’s insanely fast EV charger add nearly 250 miles range in 5 minutes [Video]
- Volkswagen shelves its electric minibus for the US, but not forever
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 by a new episode of the day trick podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:09.5 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:11.7 | Doing good, Seth. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:14.0 | Having a nice holiday. |
| 0:15.3 | Yep. |
| 0:16.2 | Up here in Vermont. |
| 0:17.0 | All right. |
| 0:18.0 | Yes. |
| 0:19.0 | Doing some snowboarding as usual. Set as a big snowboarder for those who don't know. |
| 0:23.6 | I hope everyone is having a beautiful holiday season, Christmas, if you celebrate, all that good stuff. |
| 0:30.6 | As you can imagine, even though we were working this week, I mean, it is a Christmas week. |
| 0:36.6 | A lot of people are on vacation. Not a lot of EV news come out. Some AV news, nonetheless, that we got discussed a little bit. But it's going to be a quicker show today, most likely, unless you guys have a lot of things to talk about. Because at the end, as usual, we're going to take your guys' comments. We a skeptic already in the house here. Nice to see you. I hope you have a good holiday. But we are live and we take |
| 0:59.8 | live questions. So if you guys have questions, you can put them in the comment section. I'm going to |
| 1:02.7 | remind you in a few minutes after we go through the news that we wanted to discuss as more people |
| 1:08.0 | chime in into the live chat. All right, first off, let's discuss Tesla's mission |
| 1:14.5 | because Elon on Christmas Eve, |
| 1:18.2 | you know, probably surrounded by his loving family and everything, |
| 1:21.3 | or on a big Ketamine High, |
| 1:23.5 | decided to update Tesla's mission yet again. |
| 1:28.4 | So for those who don't know, like Tesla probably, I mean, it's arguable, obviously, |
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