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

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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 (electrek.co/2026/06/24/slate-electric-truck-24…)

• Slate’s electric truck can still dip under $20,000 — but only for some (electrek.co/2026/06/26/slate-truck-under-20000…)

• Polestar barred from US over the Chinese connected vehicle rule, a dangerous precedent (electrek.co/2026/06/25/polestar-us-connected-v…)

• Lucid lays off 18% of staff, its second deep cut in four months (electrek.co/2026/06/22/lucid-lays-off-18-perce…)

• Tesla sued over fatal crash in Texas home that killed 76-year-old woman (electrek.co/2026/06/24/tesla-sued-fatal-katy-f…)

• Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal ‘Full Self-Driving’ pedestrian crash (electrek.co/2026/06/26/tesla-fsd-pedestrian-de…)

• Tesla, Sunrun team up on 16 GW virtual power plant for data centers (electrek.co/2026/06/24/tesla-sunrun-16gw-vpp-d…)

• Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called ‘Megapod’ (electrek.co/2026/06/21/tesla-megapod-ai-data-c…)

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/NmnmYXifTow