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

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. 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: 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