Tesla deliveries, Cybertruck sales shock, Rivian surprises, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 77 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 Tesla's delivery results, Cybertruck sales being disastrous, Rivian surprises, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) confirms delivery of 495,570 EVs, way below its own guidance
- Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous
- Tesla’s energy storage business continues to boom
- A Tesla Cybertruck burned down at Tesla lot in Atlanta, battery fire suspected
- Rivian (RIVN) stock surges after delivering more EVs than expected in Q4 2024
- GM surges to become America’s number 2 EV seller as electric SUVs, trucks roll out
- Ford extends EV promotion after F-150 Lightning, Mach-E set new sales records in 2024
- Honda Prologue sales are on fire in the US as 2024 total reaches over 33,000
- Hyundai and Kia had a record year in the US, but this is just the start with new EVs en route
- VW has a fix for its ID.4 recall, and sales are starting back up now
- Xiaomi delivered a staggering 135k EVs in 2024 and looks to more than double that in 2025
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 | And we are live for the first electric podcast of 2025. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.6 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:09.8 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:11.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:12.8 | Feeling the new year? |
| 0:14.0 | Feeling it. |
| 0:15.1 | All right. So first show the year is going to be a big one. |
| 0:18.3 | Obviously, we're going to dive into all the latest Q4 numbers from EV companies and automakers, |
| 0:25.3 | legacy automakers that also sell EVs throughout the show, starting with Tesla, |
| 0:30.1 | the biggest EV automaker out there and also very interesting quarter for Tesla. |
| 0:36.0 | And then we're going to dive into a little bit of a few other things, including the energy storage business for Tesla. And then we're going to dive into a little bit of further things, including the energy storage |
| 0:40.4 | business for Tesla. |
| 0:41.8 | The cyber truck burning down, which interesting thing, it might not be the one that you |
| 0:47.1 | think about right now. |
| 0:49.2 | You're going to have to stay tuned for that. |
| 0:51.6 | And yeah, I'm going to look at a little bit at two Chinese numbers |
| 0:54.3 | to that I think are interesting and then as usual we're going to take you guys |
| 0:58.1 | question you guys comments or the other topic in the EVOO what you want us to discuss |
| 1:02.8 | you can put them in the comments below and we'll get to it a little bit later on we already |
| 1:06.9 | have a bunch of comments today we have John who says Roaster going to production in 2025. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah. |
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