Elon gets $26 billion while Tesla gets flooded with lawsuits and Dojo is dead

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 Elon Musk getting a sweet $26 billion payday from Tesla while the company gets flooded with lawsuits and Dojo is dead.

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

• Tesla board (TSLA) gives Elon Musk $26 billion worth of shares (electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-tsla-moves-to-giv…)

• Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lie…)

• The Tesla Autopilot lawsuit floodgates are open, lawyer who beat Tesla is going for round 2 (electrek.co/2025/08/07/tesla-autopilot-lawsuit…)

• Tesla used car prices keep plummeting, dips below average used car (electrek.co/2025/08/08/tesla-used-car-prices-k…)

• Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer looks dead as more execs leave for competing startup (electrek.co/2025/08/07/tesla-dojo-supercompute…)

• US military is buying Tesla Cybertrucks to use as targets for missiles (electrek.co/2025/08/06/us-military-buying-tesl…)

• Ford puts new electric pickup on the back burner, but promises lower-priced EVs (electrek.co/2025/08/08/ford-puts-new-ev-pickup…)

• Lucid (LCID) cuts production target for 2025, but there’s more to it (electrek.co/2025/08/05/lucid-lcid-cuts-product…)

• Acura is teasing its new all-electric RSX before its debut at Monterey Car Week (electrek.co/2025/08/08/acura-teasing-new-all-e…)

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/XSkN5y-116k