TSLA craziness ensues, Tesla Terafactory Austin, new EVs

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla (TSLA) stock craziness ensuing, Tesla Terafactory Austin, new electric cars, and more.

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 The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site.

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

Tesla (TSLA) stock news:

Tesla launches short shorts for real and the internet goes crazy
Tesla (TSLA): Elon Musk ends up making over $50 million from his SEC settlement
Tesla’s meteoric rise is making a lot of employees very rich
Tesla (TSLA) facing unprecedented $20 billion short bet — potential bloodbath?
Tesla (TSLA) stock rallies to new all-time high as Wall Street adjusts

Tesla Model Y lands in Europe thanks to Volvo looking to reverse engineer it
Tesla electric hatchback: Elon Musk says new car might be designed in Germany
Tesla (TSLA): Elon Musk says ‘very close’ to level 5 autonomy complete
Tesla updates ridiculous warranty on problematic media unit and touchscreen
VW’s Seat unveils stunning electric hot hatchback: 2021 Cupra el-Born
Audi unveils Q4 Sportsback e-tron: ~$45,000 sleek electric SUV
Rivian secures $2.5 billion funding from Tesla investors and more

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sXTmJXEXBM&feature=youtu.be