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Trump's dumb auto tariffs explained, Tesla in the crosshairs, new Nissan Leaf, and more

Electrek

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

4.3621 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 50 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 dumb new auto tariffs explained, Tesla being in the crosshairs of retaliatory tariffs, the new Nissan Leaf, and more.

The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

one we are live for a new episode of the electric podcast i'm fred lembert your host coming you live

0:05.5

from las vegas and as usual i'm joined by south wenchav how you doing set i'm good i think

0:11.7

las vegas we forgot to put up the uh browser screen the browser screen yeah oh sorry okay yeah yeah

0:20.1

yeah yeah sharing the screen so you're in las

0:23.0

Vegas why yeah I'm testing out the new Audi GTRS the oh the the updated the 2025

0:31.3

it's like a mid mid-cycle update so it's not nothing too new I can talk about it a little bit.

0:37.8

I just cannot talk about the drive impressions until next week.

0:42.1

There's a little bit of an embargo on that.

0:44.8

But, yeah, I mean, it's a very nice update.

0:47.2

It's, you know, sometimes the mid-cycles update focus more on the design and such,

0:53.5

but it's different for the gt it's the contrary like

0:57.4

they updated a lot of the spec capacity features of the vehicle and the design not that much a little bit

1:04.1

like you have a little bit more like a honeycomb kind of grill that that's pretty nice a nice vertical

1:10.5

reflector in the back that's like

1:12.8

race car inspired i think it's pretty cool so nothing too crazy on on the design a bunch of

1:17.9

of course like package it's a very high-end car that you can option from like a hundred and

1:23.8

twenty thousand dollars although we to like almost two hundred thousand i guess so there's a lot of options you can put on it but uh 12% more energy um in the battery pack

1:35.2

so more energy capacity and they still manage to reduce the weight by 25 pounds so like

1:43.1

slightly smaller less weight more more capacity, a little bit

1:47.0

more range, nothing too crazy, but more power to 912 horsepower. I don't know. I've hit,

1:56.1

I think that falls into driving impression.

2:03.0

But yeah, I'm going to have a lot more to say about them.

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