Tesla texting and driving, Trump kills mpg, Aptera update, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 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 allowing texting and driving on FSD v14, Trump killing CAFE's MPG standard, an Aptera update, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) sales keep crashing in Europe with a single market temporarily saving it
- Tesla launches ‘Standard’ Model 3 in Europe with aggressive pricing to stop bleeding sales
- Elon Musk claims Tesla FSD drivers can now text and drive, do police agree?
- White House unveils plan to raise your fuel costs, despite affordability crisis
- The Lexus LFA is back, and this time it’s 100% electric
- Toyota’s $15,000 electric SUV is a hit in China
- Aptera (SEV) shows off assembly line for solar electric ‘car’, updates on battery and testing
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 | And three, two, one. |
| 0:04.2 | We are live. |
| 0:06.6 | When you're still of the Electric Podcast, I am Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:10.4 | And as usual, I'm joined by Set Wintra. |
| 0:12.8 | Are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:14.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.5 | All right. |
| 0:16.2 | Another big news week again this week. |
| 0:19.2 | It was kind of slow. |
| 0:23.1 | But still, a few interesting things that we want to talk about. When it comes to Tesla, we got some numbers from European sales and we got |
| 0:28.0 | the new launch of the Model 3 standard in Europe. So we're going to discuss a little bit of |
| 0:31.6 | like how's the European market looking. Can Tesla see the bottom of it? What's going to happen? So we're going to discuss |
| 0:40.0 | that a little bit. Then we got to discuss a big update to FSDV14.2 for the people who have it. |
| 0:48.8 | You know, it's supposed to be sentient. I don't know about that, but what I do know is that now Tesla is |
| 0:55.9 | slowly starting to actually allow texting and driving, but not in the way that we would hope for, |
| 1:02.1 | but basically in the way that we predicted. Then we got to talk a little bit about the White House, |
| 1:07.6 | Trump's administration, officially killing the Miles per Gallon standard, |
| 1:13.0 | a cafe standard for automakers, and the automakers that celebrated that, which we're going |
| 1:18.3 | to try not to forget about going forward because, you know, some of these people, they say things |
| 1:24.8 | one way and then the other way with their lobbyists, they say other things. |
| 1:29.3 | We're going to talk a little bit about Toyota. |
| 1:31.4 | They unveiled a new Lexus LFA concept that's now electric, but they also unveil a new |
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