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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There are a lot of leaks right now regarding Rivian's R2 specs and pricing, and if they are true, Rivian has a killer product in its hands. It will dominate the higher-end of the midsize SUV segment. It will badly hurt Tesla's "Premium Model Y".

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A Threads user named Laushi Liu posted dashcam footage from his Tesla Model 3 on Sunday, March 8, showing the vehicle on “Full Self-Driving” mode driving through a railroad crossing barrier. electrek.co/2026/03/09/t...

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I think the Supercharger network is probably Tesla’s best product ever. If Tesla can replicate that playbook for trucks, it would be a massive deal, enabling long-haul electric trucking. electrek.co/2026/02/24/t...

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Tesla adds 64 Megacharger locations to map, revealing Semi truck charging routes

Tesla has updated its “Find Us” map with 64 new Megacharger locations across 15 states, giving the clearest picture yet...

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It would be pretty funny if this brown-nose demon called the absolute top in her attempt to protect Epstein's friends.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Obviously aside from the fact that Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, and his board member, Kimball Musk, are actually in the real Epstein files.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Tesla got a new extension on delivering its FSD violation data to NHTSA. There are literally too many and Tesla has to take the time to ask for redaction on everything. This is Tesla's Epstein files. electrek.co/2026/02/23/t...

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Tesla is having a hard time turning over its FSD traffic violation data

Tesla secured a second extension in NHTSA's FSD traffic violation probe, pushing crash data delivery to March 9 — far past the original January deadline.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We are aware of dozens of similar cases currently going through the court process on top of half a dozen known settlements since the original verdict in this case. We are talking billions of dollars in potential settlements and verdicts over the next few years. electrek.co/2026/02/20/t...

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Tesla has to pay historical $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

A federal judge has rejected Tesla’s bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash...

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The fact that it's been eight months and Tesla hasn't delivered a single additional car this way confirms what we warned about at the time: this was a marketing event, not a technology deployment. electrek.co/2026/02/19/t...

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Tesla is framing a limitation as an advantage, and the CPUC filing makes that framing explicit in a way that Tesla’s marketing carefully avoids.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The blackout argument is revealing because of what Tesla isn’t saying. Yes, having a human driver makes you more resilient to power outages. It also means you haven’t solved autonomous driving.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

These are not competing approaches to the same problem, they are fundamentally different products at fundamentally different stages of development.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Waymo operates actual driverless vehicles at a scale of hundreds of thousands of rides per week. Tesla operates a supervised ride-hailing service with about 42 cars in Austin and runs a ride-hailing service with drivers using FSD (Level 2) in the Bay Area.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In its own words, Tesla describes a service that requires a trained human driver in every vehicle, backed by teams of remote operators, using a Level 2 driver-assist system that legally requires constant human supervision. Then it calls it a Robotaxi.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This regulatory spat between Tesla and Waymo is proving to be quite revealing. This filing is the clearest illustration yet of the gap between Tesla’s “Robotaxi” marketing and its actual operations. electrek.co/2026/02/19/t...

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Tesla admits it still needs drivers and remote operators — then argues that's better than Waymo

Tesla filed new comments with the California Public Utilities Commission that amount to a quiet admission: its “Robotaxi” service still...

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

AI has been a thing for 5 minutes and these maniacs are already using it to kill people. Humanity is begging to end itself.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I missed Jesus’ teaching about attending the “wildest parties” on p3do island.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

As Tesla moves away from promising unsupervised self-driving in consumer vehicles, I've been working on a model to try to determine Tesla's potential liability for the false promise on millions of cars. Any thoughts?

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I’m currently in Tulum testing the BYD Shark. I increasingly feel like this vehicle and others like it, PHEV pickup with decent all-electric range, could be the missing link to help boost EV adoption n the pickup-hungry US market, which is being left behind the rest of the world in electrification

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I'm taking a break from Twitter and trying to give Bsky a real shot. Who are some great follows for Tesla, EVs, AI, and MMA?

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Lately, Musk has been trying to claim that Tesla doesn't rely on teleoperation for its Optimus demo. He explicitly claimed so for the Tron premiere demo and in the kung-fu demo posted to socials:

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Tesla has been using VR headsets to train the robots and do remote control.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This is suspicious as hell. It was reportedly recorded at Tesla's 'Autonomy Visualized' in Miami this weekend and posted to Reddit. Optimus falls as if it is removing a VR headset – pointing to human teleoperation.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I think the rest of the world should learn from this. Instead of pouring capital into meme coins and made-up stores of value, we should invest in electricity generation and storage.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

They are going to let the rest of the world hold the crypto bag while they have more electricity generation than anyone to power their industries, which are already taking over the world.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

And I think China has figured this out, as evidenced by its new electricity generation surpassing the rest of the world combined and by its ban on cryptocurrency.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

If electricity is the backbone of global trade and the metric of productivity, the kWh ultimately becomes the real currency of a truly electrified world.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The petro-dollar is dead. Long live the electro-dollar. In this op-ed, I tried to explore the idea that if the present is electric and the future is even more electric, then it makes sense for electricity to be the foundation of the economy.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Elon on Lucid in 2024: "Their Saudi sugar daddy is the only thing keeping them alive." Elon in 2025 - deal with Saudi sugar daddy:

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

You can swap attachments easily. There's the included bucket and optional: grapple, auger, snow plow, or forks. There's also a digging arm to bury bodies:

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Nesher's electric loaders are super versatile. You can use them to move bodies on renewable energy without any emission, noise, smelly diesel:

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

3- Elon already has full control over Tesla. Can you think of a single instance in the last 20 years of Tesla where Elon didn't get his way? He even got caught with securities fraud by the SEC and was allowed to remain CEO and install a puppet chairperson to replace him on the board.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

2- Why is delivering unsupervised self-driving in consumer vehicles as promised and sold for almost a decade not a milestone in the package? Instead, there are more vague milestones like FSD subscription and robotaxis, which are problematic since they both don't require reaching unsupervised levels.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I made a few points in this article that I think are important: 1- Elon is the one forcing this all-or-nothing compensation plan. "You don't want him to get paid" is not a valid argument. electrek.co/2025/10/28/e...

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Elon Musk is not leaving Tesla, but he is using the threat as blackmail

Elon Musk and Tesla’s board keep repeating the threat that the CEO will leave if shareholders don’t approve his ridiculous...

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

What I find particularly funny about this post is that the account is setup as if it’s Optimus responding, but you know a human wrote it. Just like all of Optimus’ public demos so far, it’s a human trying to pass as a robot.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It's hard work though. I just checked today and I wrote 13,463 articles at Electrek over 10 years. That's an average of 3.7 articles per day, including the weekends, no days off. That's nuts.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This job allows me to focus on what I'm passionate about, enables me to drive some of the most advanced vehicles in the world, and even own a few, like the first Model S in Canada - seen above.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This month marks 10 years that I've been writing for @electrek.co. I'm proud of that. Massive shoutout to the best independent tech publisher on the planet, @llsethj.bsky.social , and the passionate team of reporters who consistently push to accelerate sustainable transport and renewable energy.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

That's not an accurate representation. I've become increasingly negative on Musk in 2019. That's when he called me "anti-Tesla", which I clearly wasnt to be fair. I started turning on sour on Elon, not Tesla yet -just some of his moves at Tesla. The Roadster wasn't even supposed to come until 2020.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm writing factual articles about him. I ain't slashing his tires.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I tried to build a clear timeline of Musk's attempts to gain complete control over AI. He went from trying to do it at OpenAI, then Tesla, and now xAI.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Kimbal Musk, Elon's brother and Tesla board member/puppet, basically just called Trump a "retard". I bet the Trump/Elon fallout is ahead of schedule.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

What product? Energy? maybe, it's the only product growing, but it still doesn't justify a $900 billion valuation when EV deliveries are plunging and self-driving has become a liability since it can't deliver level 5 as promised on millions of vehicles.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Elon joins the US gov, Tesla surge, Elon leaves the US gov, $TSLA surge. It doesn't make sense. It's a meme stock.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I think Tesla has become a complete meme stock, and its value almost entirely hinges on people believing Elon Musk is a super genius and not a compulsive liar despite all the evidence to the contrary.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Even the most pessimistic analysts didn't expect 336k deliveries - 50,000 units fewer than last year. The giant miss would point to especially bad performance in the US since we have pretty good visibility in Europe and China.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The biggest irony is that Musk was pushing those baseless claims of people getting paid to attend Tesla protests, while he was himself at a rally he organized to promote the Republican Candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court where he was financially incentivizing people to attend.

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

‪This move also inflates xAI’s valuation ahead of Tesla’s upcoming shareholders meeting where I’m sure Elon will push for a vote for Tesla to invest in xAI - now also X.‬ ‪The grift never stops. ‬

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Fred Lambert @fredlambert.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Well, this explains how X's bank valuation went so quickly from ~$12B in 2024 back to ~$44B last month. Musk had made the xAI offer, increasing the valuation. Between SolarCity, his Tesla CEO compensation plan, and this, Musk is a master of negotiating with himself.

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