Battery holy grail too good to be true, NVIDIA open sources self-driving, Tesla Model Y 'Standard', and more

In the Electrek Podcast (electrek.co/guides/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 (electrek.co/2026/01/09/tesla-launches-standard…)

• Tesla’s full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath (electrek.co/2026/01/06/tesla-full-2025-data-eu…)

• Elon Musk’s xAI tells investors it will build AI for Tesla Optimus, amid breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit (electrek.co/2026/01/09/elon-musk-xai-build-ai-…)

• Nvidia unveils open-source AI for autonomous driving, ships in Mercedes-Benz CLA in Q1 2026 (electrek.co/2026/01/05/nvidia-unveils-open-sou…)

• Elon Musk wishes NVIDIA luck on self-driving, strangely silent on Hyundai’s humanoid robot (electrek.co/2026/01/07/elon-musk-wishes-nvidia…)

• Elon Musk moves goalpost again: admits Tesla needs 10 billion miles for ‘safe unsupervised’ FSD (electrek.co/2026/01/08/elon-musk-moves-goalpos…)

• Verge unveils 370-mile electric motorcycle with solid state battery; sounds too good to be true? (electrek.co/2026/01/05/verge-unveils-370-mile-…)

• Ford goes all in on L3 eyes-off driving, starting with the $30,000 EV pickup (electrek.co/2026/01/08/fords-30000-ev-pickup-l…)

• Volvo’s new 400-mile EX60 is a specs monster (electrek.co/2026/01/08/volvos-new-400-mile-ex6…)

• Kia reveals three new GT EVs, two sporty electric SUVs and a hot hatch (electrek.co/2026/01/09/kia-reveals-two-sporty-…)

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

youtube.com/live/7iQnyeOWDcY