Electrek at Shanghai Auto Show, Tesla earnings, Slate cheap EV pickup unveiled, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
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 Electrek seeing a ton of cool EVs at the Shanghai Auto Show, Tesla's disastrous earnings, Slate's cheap EV pickup being unveiled, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Here’s some of the coolest, sleekest (and furriest) EV tech we saw at the 2025 Shanghai Auto Show
- Tesla (TSLA) Q1 2025 financial results: missed big on already terrible expectations
- Live Tesla Q1 2025 earnings transcript fact check and reaction stream
- Here are all the crazy claims Elon Musk made about Tesla self-driving today
- Tesla (TSLA) brings back FSD transfer, offers $2,000 loyalty discount amid demand crisis
- The Tesla (TSLA) dilemma: company is cooked with Musk, but stock crashes without him
- You won’t believe the repair cost of this Tesla Cybertruck after a crash with a compact sedan
- Slate emerges with customizable EV pickup available for under $20k [Video]
- Chevy Blazer SS EV first drive, over 600hp and 300 miles of range!
- CATL unveils new EV battery that charges as fast as pumping gas
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET):
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. I am Fred Lambert, your host. And as usual, I'm joined by Set Winchow, but this time coming us live from Shanghai. How are you doing, Seth? I'm good, a little tired. It's 4 a.m. Yes, thank you for joining us on the regular time. We're making it work with your flight early this morning, so that's good. But you're hyped up on coffee right now. I'm going to be able to give us all the deeds on these Chinese EVs that were at the Shanghai Auto Show. So that's Shanghai Auto Show, I guess it's the biggest auto show in China, I would assume. Oh, yeah. It's huge. It's the biggest auto show I've ever been to. And I imagine it's probably the biggest in the world. Maybe IAA was bigger. I don't know. It changed a lot over the last few years to IA. All right. |
| 0:54.2 | So we're going to discuss that. We have a post that's up right now, but we're going to have a lot more to say about all the Chinese EVs in the next week or two as said and then Scooter come back from China and do their writing, reporting. And we'll probably discuss a few of these posts on next week's podcast but we're going to have |
| 1:11.0 | some cool things for you in just a few minutes then we have the teslo earnings i already did a live |
| 1:17.7 | stream about the teslo earnings on uh on wednesday so if you want to really a deep dive on that it's on |
| 1:24.2 | our youtube facebook and twitter so you can go check that out. I went |
| 1:28.3 | basically, and I did the whole transcript. I took the transcript from the call and basically |
| 1:33.8 | live fact-checked it. So if you're interested that, you can check that out. But we're going to hit |
| 1:38.1 | the highlights in mid-show about that. And then we have the slate, very cool new entry in the EV |
| 1:45.8 | world in North America. So it's a slate pickup in the SUV, which basically is the same thing. |
| 1:50.5 | We're going to talk a little bit about that. It's very interesting. But before we do, I want |
| 1:54.7 | to say a quick thank you to today's episode is brought to you by Ritrospect, maker of sleek, |
| 2:00.3 | powerful e-bikes and outdoor gear built for everyday adventure. |
| 2:05.3 | ElectricLishter can get 10% off their next ride until May 8th with the exclusive code |
| 2:11.0 | Electric 10. That's Electric E-L-E-C-T-R-E-K-10 only at retrospect.com. |
| 2:20.0 | We're going to have a little bit more to say about them later on the show. |
| 2:23.4 | Whenever they give us, they give us a card like Electric 10, |
| 2:27.4 | I always want to try Electric 20 to see if it works. |
| 2:31.1 | I'm not saying that it's going to work, guys. |
| 2:32.8 | You can try it out, but I'm not saying it's going to work, guys. You can try it out, but I'm not saying |
| 2:34.7 | it's going to work. All right. Let's start with the Shanghai. So as Scooter just posted today, |
| 2:45.6 | this article is kind of like an overlooked of all the different EVs. So kind of, you know, not a deep dive into any of them, |
| 2:54.7 | but just to show you basically like what's out there in China, which probably a lot. |
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