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Slate's $25,000 electric pickup, Polestar banned from US, Tesla FSD crash, and more

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Show Notes

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 Slate's $25,000 electric pickup, Polestar being banned from the US, Tesla FSD crashes coming into focus, and more.

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

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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:

Slate Auto’s electric truck starts at $24,950 with 205 miles of range

Slate’s electric truck can still dip under $20,000 — but only for some

Polestar barred from US over the Chinese connected vehicle rule, a dangerous precedent

Lucid lays off 18% of staff, its second deep cut in four months

Tesla sued over fatal crash in Texas home that killed 76-year-old woman

Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal ‘Full Self-Driving’ pedestrian crash

Tesla, Sunrun team up on 16 GW virtual power plant for data centers

Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called ‘Megapod’

Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET

https://www.youtube.com/live/NmnmYXifTow

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