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Tesla unveils Megablock, bunch of new EVs at IAA, Hyundai's plant, and more

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Technology, Clean, Evs, Electric, Electrek, Automotive, Model, Elon, Leisure/automotive, Tesla, Leisure, Energy, Vehicles, 3, Musk

4.3621 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 55 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 unveiling its new Megablock product, bunch of new EVs at IAA, the debacle at Hyundai's plant, and more

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0:00.0

Two, one, we are alive for a new episode of The Echek podcast.

0:03.5

I'm friend Lambert, your host.

0:04.5

And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wincha.

0:06.6

Are you doing this week's yet?

0:07.8

I'm good.

0:08.9

You're ready to start.

0:10.2

We have plenty of talk about.

0:11.9

We have Tesla that unveil the megaploc slash megapak 3.

0:17.8

We have a little exit letter that was very interesting from a Tesla engineers that kind of exposed Elon's betrayal of the Dissom mission.

0:27.0

We have a little update on the cyber trucks wireless charging that we talked a little bit about last week after Porsche on VIL.

0:34.0

Then we have a bunch of EVs that were on Ville, whether they're full EVs, whether

0:38.7

their prototypes at the IAA in Munich this week.

0:44.8

All right, let's jump.

0:46.0

Let's start with the megablock, the megapact that was unveiled on Monday night.

0:51.1

It was unveiled sort of in the margins of the big RE Plus Renewable Energy Convention in Las Vegas.

1:00.0

Though Tesla did it at their, well, it's not theirs.

1:03.1

It's the borrowing company's loop network thing.

1:07.3

But the event was powered by Megapak and Cybertruck to buy bidirectional charging, which was pretty cool.

1:15.3

So there's kind of two products on VIL at this event, but mainly it's the Megapack 3.

1:21.5

So it's a new version of the Megapack with the biggest difference being a new, bigger cell being used in it, a new 2.8-liter battery cell,

1:29.0

so it's not Tesla cells, but it was developed with its supplying partners, retrocell suppliers.

1:36.3

It labels an upgrade from 3.9 megawatt hour at the megapact 2 to 5 megawatt hours now for the new megapact 3.

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