About this episode

The episode discusses Tesla's recent challenges, affordable Ford electric pickups, and VW's troubles in the automotive market.

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's latest Cyberflop, lots of cheap Ford electric pickups, VW in trouble, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek ’s YouTube channel . As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in. After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS We now have a Patreon if you want to help us avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming. Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast: Tesla opens search for Cybercab fleet sales, but FSD owners are still left out Tesla Cybercab is already under NHTSA investigation after launch Tesla Full Self-Driving can now take over manual driving to avoid a collision Tesla settles fatal Autopilot fire truck lawsuit, avoiding jury trial Ford…

People in this episode

Host: Electrek

Topics covered

• Tesla news
• Ford electric vehicles
• VW issues
• sustainable transport
• electric pickups
• automotive technology

Keywords

• Tesla
• Ford
• VW
• electric vehicles
• sustainable transport
• Cybercab
• Full Self-Driving
• Rivian
• Polestar 4

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tesla, Ford, VW, NHTSA

Products: Cybercab, Full Self-Driving, Fathom, Range Rover, Polestar 4, Rivian

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