Battery holy grail too good to be true, NVIDIA open sources self-driving, Tesla Model Y 'Standard', 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 a battery holy grail too good to be true, NVIDIA open sourcing self-driving, Tesla Model Y 'Standard' Long Range, and more.

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

• Tesla launches ‘Standard’ Model Y Long Range in Europe, and non-Long Range in Canada
• Tesla’s full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath
• Elon Musk’s xAI tells investors it will build AI for Tesla Optimus, amid breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit
• Nvidia unveils open-source AI for autonomous driving, ships in Mercedes-Benz CLA in Q1 2026
• Elon Musk wishes NVIDIA luck on self-driving, strangely silent on Hyundai’s humanoid robot
• Elon Musk moves goalpost again: admits Tesla needs 10 billion miles for ‘safe unsupervised’ FSD
• Verge unveils 370-mile electric motorcycle with solid state battery; sounds too good to be true?
• Ford goes all in on L3 eyes-off driving, starting with the $30,000 EV pickup
• Volvo’s new 400-mile EX60 is a specs monster
• Kia reveals three new GT EVs, two sporty electric SUVs and a hot hatch

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/7iQnyeOWDcY