We bought 2 new EVs, Tesla Robotaxi, Ford's $19B EV charge, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 66 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 Seth and me (Fred) each buying a new EV, Tesla Robotaxi progress, Ford's $19 billion charge on EVs, and much more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- I tested Tesla’s latest ‘mind blowing’ Full Self-Driving v14
- Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash, even with supervisor as it moves to remove them
- Tesla’s patent applications show slower innovation and shift to AI/autonomous driving
- FSD false advertising case: Tesla must stop lying or it can’t sell cars, judge rules
- Rivian rolls out software update 2025.46, including Universal Hands-Free driving and digital key for Apple and Android users
- Another EV battery swapping company is going bankrupt
- Ford reveals next-generation F-150 Lightning EREV, but kills off the EV version
- Is the Volkswagen ID.Polo the affordable EV successor it needs?
- GM considers former Tesla Autopilot head Sterling Anderson as next CEO, report says
- Waymo seeks massive $15 billion raise at $100 billion valuation to fuel robotaxi expansion
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 | We are live for a new episode of the Electric podcast. I'm Fred Lambert, your host. And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintraub. Are you doing, Seth? I'm good. All right. I hope you're good because we don't have it yet, right? What do you mean? The new car. Oh, I have it. Oh, you already have it. |
| 0:21.7 | Geez, you bought it. |
| 0:22.5 | Oh, yeah, it was Monday. |
| 0:23.4 | So it goes fast. So Set and I each got a new EV. Well, at first said, it's not a new new, but it's a new vehicle for him, but it is used. For me, it is brand new. And you guys are going to know pretty quick which car I'm getting because I think |
| 0:39.3 | it's the first article we're discussing this week. Yeah. Oh, okay, right. Yeah. So you'll know |
| 0:46.3 | real quick, but we'll keep Sets new car because it's a little bit, it's a more scarce vehicle. |
| 0:51.1 | It's not as popular as it's not something you would think necessarily. I guess if you if we were through, I mean, you talked about it on the podcast a little bit, I think a few times, but not in, not in details, but you like, you pitched it as like, yeah, maybe it's a good idea. So I can, but I think if you guys have like three or four guests, you probably wouldn't yesterday. So we're going to talk about that later on the show, the last |
| 1:14.0 | portion of the show when we take you guys question. |
| 1:15.6 | But we're going to remind you guys of that later on as more people trickle into the live show. |
| 1:20.6 | But, you know, for the second to last week of December, normally we don't have that much news to discuss. |
| 1:26.6 | But this week is quite |
| 1:28.3 | different. We have a lot of things to discuss and a lot of different things. We're going to talk |
| 1:32.5 | about full self-driving. We'll talk about Rural Taxi. We're going to talk about this as patents. |
| 1:38.5 | You're going to talk about the California. The self-driving that was the ruling was released this week. |
| 1:46.0 | Talk about Rivians update. |
| 1:48.0 | Last week we talked about the Rivian's autonomy day. |
| 1:51.0 | They are already releasing stuff related to the autonomy day in consumer vehicles. |
| 1:58.0 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 1:59.0 | And then a bunch of other things. So plenty of things to talk about. So stay on for the whole show. It's going to be interesting. And at the end, as usual, we're going to take you guys questions. So if you guys have any question, you can put them in the chat when you get to it a little bit on later. So I guess I'll kill the suspense right away. I got a new Tesla. Now, before all of you just get super mad at me, |
| 2:22.4 | you would say, oh, you're encouraging Elon Musk and everything that. My argument is simple. |
| 2:27.8 | Tesla is not making any money on the car that I bought. Why and why I bought it is the reason is that I had a bunch of Tesla credits from last year, from a, you were, I mean, some of them are even older than that. |
| 2:43.4 | For not the Tesla points credit, but the actual cash credit from Tesla that were expiring starting yesterday actually. So I had to make a decision |
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