Fred Lambert is the Editor-in-Chief and one of the founding members of Electrek. He mainly covers electric vehicles and renewable energy.
He is also the co-founder of Combat Edge, a MMA stats website.
Lambert made a name in the EV space through a steady stream of exclusive scoops about Tesla, including being the first journalist to try Tesla’s Autopilot feature back in 2015. Lambert also repeatedly broke stories about new Tesla products like Enhanced Summon, Model S design refresh, Tesla Autopilot 2.5, and more.
In 2020, he was also the first to report that Tesla’s new planned Gigafactory in the US would be located in Austin, Texas months before the official announcement.
His reporting has been used by many mainstream news organizations, like the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and many more.
Lambert has appeared on television (CNBC) and has been featured in national papers for his expertise in electric vehicles.
You can contact him by email at fred@9to5mac.com or on Twitter @fredericLambert
The French are saying “non, merci” to Tesla, as sales crashed to just 700 units in May – a level not seen in more than three years.
The Model Y changeover was clearly not the problem.
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Tesla still has no plan to make things right for millions of car owners with its ‘HW3’ system, more than four months after it finally admitted that the hardware won’t support self-driving.
At this point, the automaker is just hoping they buy new cars.
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A Tesla prototype was spotted at the Fremont factory in California, sparking speculation that it’s the new “cheaper Tesla”, but it looks like a regular Model Y.
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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the new Tesla Model S/X “refresh”, robotaxi service is coming, a new EV price war in China, and more.
Elon Musk is starting to realize, or at least admit, that Trump and the GOP are going to hurt Tesla greatly by removing battery and solar incentives without removing incentives for fossil fuels.
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Tesla has started testing its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas without safety drivers over the last few days, according to Elon Musk.
The automaker reportedly aims to launch its robotaxi service on June 12.
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Tesla’s sales have fallen 87% in Quebec in the first quarter 2025 compared to the same period last year.
The critical Canadian market has been wiped out, and Tesla is no longer importing new vehicles.
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Tesla’s insurance products are currently unsustainable, according to a new report that shows the company is losing money insuring its own cars.
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Two Tesla board members close to Elon Musk, Ira Ehrenpreis and Kimbal Musk, just sold almost $200 million worth of Tesla (TSLA) stocks.
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Tesla has been spotted working on what appears to be a mild design update for the Model S and Model X, two vehicle programs that have been in decline.
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Tesla’s (TSLA) situation in Europe continues to deteriorate, despite electric car sales surging and the new Model Y now being available.
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BYD has triggered another EV price war in China by slashing the price of several models, sending the stocks of local EV automakers sinking.
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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the EV/Solar killing bill moving forward, Elon lying about Tesla’s demand, cheaper EVs coming, and more.
A Tesla vehicle on the latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised update suddenly veered off road and flipped the car upside down – creating a scary crash that the driver said he couldn’t prevent.
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Here we compare the specs of the new Tesla Model Y (Chinese version) to the newly unveiled Xiaomi YU7, a vehicle dubbed the ‘Tesla killer’.
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The Republicans in Congress have voted for Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, which are going to greatly slow down electric vehicles and renewable energy in the US.
Here’s how the new bill is going to affect Tesla.
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Tesla’s head of self-driving has admitted that the automaker’s autonomous program is lagging “a couple years” behind Waymo, but he believes the cost advantage will enable it to scale faster.
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Elon Musk just made public and material lies aimed at Tesla shareholders. Here’s the proof with the relevant transcript.
Now, let’s see if the SEC still has teeth or if the US has fully entered its scam era under the Trump administration.
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Elon Musk says he wants to stay CEO of Tesla for at least the next five years and have more controlling shares in the company.
This will most likely seal Tesla’s fate with Musk’s, as shareholders will likely approve of this despite his toxicity and lies.
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Tesla announced it paid Powerwall owners $9.9 million through its virtual power plant programs in 2024.
Distributed energy is working.
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Tesla has wiped off the 26,000 miles on the odometer of a Cybertruck in service, scratched the vehicle, and then returned it to the owner like nothing happened.
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Tesla has started accepting Cybertruck trade-ins, something that wasn’t the case more than a year after deliveries of the electric pickup truck started.
We are starting to see why Tesla didn’t accept its own vehicle as a trade-in: the depreciation is insane.
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Tesla is now pulling on all the demand levers in the US with new discounts and incentives as sales are crashing due to brand damage.
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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss how the GOP plans to kill the EV tax credit, Tesla’s China problem, Slate getting some interest, and more.