Trump's Tesla ad, cheaper Tesla model, Mercedes CLA EV, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 62 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 making an ad for Tesla, upcoming cheaper Tesla models, the unveiling of the new Mercedes CLA EV, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- US President does infomercial at White House for company owned by his biggest political donor
- Trump’s Tesla commercial hasn’t helped inventory or new orders
- Tesla Cybertruck deliveries are on hold as trims are flying off the ‘bulletproof’ truck
- Elon Musk claims Tesla will double US production in next two years, let’s do the math
- Tesla Takedown movement fights back against Musk/Trump after push to label them as ‘domestic terrorists’
- Tesla’s upcoming cheaper electric car is basically a stripped-down Model Y
- Tesla complains about being target of retaliatory tariffs, and it was right: it’s starting
- The Mercedes CLA EV is finally here and it has nearly 500 miles range: Here’s our first look
- BMW gives a sneak peek at the new i3 and iX3 during final stages of testing [Video]
- Toyota just gave the bZ4X the glow-up it deserves: Check out the new electric SUV
- Rivian launches hands-free driving and a new ‘Rally Mode,’ but that’s not all
- Jaguar’s controversial ultra-luxury EV looks fake in its first public appearance [Video]
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are live for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winthrop. |
| 0:12.7 | How are you doing, Seth? |
| 0:13.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.0 | All right. |
| 0:15.6 | I hope you are, because we have a big show. |
| 0:18.4 | Today we have a ton of news. |
| 0:20.2 | This was a busy week all around. We have a big show today. We have a ton of news. This was a busy week all around. |
| 0:23.2 | We have the Trump Tesla hat that we're going to discuss. That was quite interesting. |
| 0:29.1 | I've got quite a lot of implication to it. We got some results from it, too, that I think could have been interesting for listeners. |
| 0:35.2 | We have our updates on the Tesla takedown. We have an update on the |
| 0:40.0 | cheaper Tesla model coming up. We get a good look at the Mercedes CLA EV with all its specs. |
| 0:48.3 | And it's a very interesting update, a big step up for Mercedescedes and we get at the lesser level sneak |
| 0:57.4 | peek of the next gen v vs from bm w and it looks like again we don't have as much detailed as we do for |
| 1:05.1 | the mercedes as we do for bmdb but it looks like it's also the Germans are stepping up big time with their EV and a couple |
| 1:12.7 | of other news. And then at the end, as usual, we take you guys questions. So if you have any |
| 1:16.5 | question, you can put them in a comment section right now when I get to them in the at the end of |
| 1:21.2 | this show. But let's start about this fascinating thing that I happened this week on Tuesday. So on |
| 1:27.1 | Monday for context, because the context is important here, this week on Tuesday. So on Monday, for context, because the context |
| 1:28.8 | is important here, this stock crashed 15%. Now, he has mostly recovered this week since then, |
| 1:36.3 | that 15%, but 15% in a single day after the stock already crashed like 40% since it's all-time |
| 1:41.2 | high just a few months ago. It looks like Elon Musk was panicking a little |
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