Trump/GOP go after EV/solar, Tesla, Ford, GM EV sales, Electrek Formula Sun, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 63 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 Trump's Big Beautiful bill becoming law and going after EVs and solar, Tesla, Ford, and GM EV sales, Electrek Formula Sun, and more
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Electrek FSGP 2025: New teams, new cars, same solar spirit
- Congress votes to send 2 million US jobs to China, increase deficit, energy costs
- Tesla (TSLA) confirms 384,000 deliveries in Q2 2025, right on expectations
- Tesla prototype sparks speculation: a Model Y, maybe slightly smaller
- Tesla launches Oasis Supercharger with solar farm and off-grid batteries
- Tesla unveils its LFP battery factory, claims it’s almost ready
- Here’s why Ford’s electric vehicle sales crashed by nearly a third in Q2
- The Chevy Equinox EV is GM’s breakout star, but that’s not the only surprise
- Xpeng launches G7, a new Tesla Model Y competitor for just $27,000
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 we are live. Let me put some lights on me so you guys can see me. All right. We're |
| 0:07.4 | alive for a new episode of the Light Trek podcast. I am Fred Lambert, your host. And as usual, |
| 0:11.1 | I'm joined by Seth Wintra. How you do? How are you doing, Seth? I'm good. |
| 0:16.5 | You're coming us live from Kentucky, right? That's right. We're at the |
| 0:20.7 | Electrical Formula Sun. |
| 0:23.9 | Yeah, we're going to talk about that in a second. |
| 0:25.9 | But before we do that, I want to say a quick thank you to today's episode, sponsored. |
| 0:30.5 | This episode is brought to you by Bosch Mobility Aftermarket, |
| 0:33.6 | a global leader entrusted provider of automotive aftermarket parts |
| 0:39.1 | to celebrate Amazon Prime Day, July 8 through the 11th. |
| 0:43.2 | Bosch Mobility is offering exclusive savings on must-have auto parts and tools. |
| 0:47.9 | You can learn more on the Amazon store for Bosch Mobility on the link in the show notes, |
| 0:53.2 | but we can have a little bit more to |
| 0:54.3 | see about them later on the show so sticking for that but yeah first thing off we want to talk to |
| 0:59.2 | you a little bit about the electric formula song Grand Prix which is going on right now in bowling |
| 1:05.2 | green Kentucky and set is there so how's it going set it hot, but that's good because we need the sun. |
| 1:12.6 | I think there's around 10 teams still competing. |
| 1:16.6 | A lot of the teams haven't made the cut yet, so they're still trying to get their cars ready. |
| 1:24.6 | This has been the biggest year, I think, since before COVID and one of the |
| 1:28.3 | biggest years in history, I think there's like 35 teams and another 9 or 10 teams that are |
| 1:34.2 | just there to watch and kind of learn. One of the nice things about the event is that the teams |
| 1:41.4 | learn a ton of stuff from each other, both from, you know, how to race, but also |
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