Tesla delivery record, V4 Supercharger, messy US EV market, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 68 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 record, V4 Superchargers, a messy US EV market, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) announces 497,000 EV deliveries in Q3
- Tesla’s ‘more affordable’ Model Y spotted uncamouflaged on highway
- Tesla launches Model Y Performance in the US for $57,500
- Tesla confirms new Model Y Performance supports bidirectional charging
- Tesla launches first full V4 Supercharger station with 500 kW capacity
- Tesla revives its solar business by bringing back solar leasing
- Rivian (RIVN) Q3 deliveries beat expectations as it narrows its annual delivery guidance
- Honda’s electric SUV is a hit, thanks to steep discounts
- The Chevy Equinox EV is taking off as America’s best-selling EV outside of Tesla
- New Chevy Bolt seen charging at Tesla Supercharger in LA a week before reveal
- Ford’s $30,000 EV isn’t the pickup you think it is
- Chevy Silverado EV Trail Boss first off-road adventure
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET:
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| 0:00.0 | We are live for a new episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by the publisher extraordinaire. |
| 0:12.0 | Seth Wynchaw, are you doing this week, Seth? |
| 0:14.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.3 | All right, I hope you are, because we have plenty of news. |
| 0:17.8 | A lot of tests on use this week, but a lot of good testing news. |
| 0:22.5 | The stock doesn't reflect it, but good test and use to a degree. |
| 0:26.9 | Probably on some of the last good news that we're going to get for a little bit because |
| 0:32.4 | the U.S. market is going to get tough. |
| 0:34.4 | And we're going to talk about that, about like the messy U.S. AV market that's that's starting this week basically as a Q4. We have also the |
| 0:44.1 | Rivian delivery numbers. We have the supercharger V4s. We have talked about the new Chevy |
| 0:49.7 | Bolt that we get to see a little bit ahead of the unveiling next week. |
| 0:59.4 | And Ford gives us a little bit, tiny little bit more details about the next gen $30,000 supposedly pickup truck, though we can have a little bit more to say about that later. |
| 1:04.7 | Let's start with the Tesla delivery numbers. |
| 1:07.2 | Still, the biggest EV makers in North America, |
| 1:14.5 | second biggest in the world after BYD, |
| 1:17.0 | a very important company still, |
| 1:19.0 | and just got a new quarterly delivery record |
| 1:22.8 | with 497,000 deliveries in Q3. So we anticipated that this would return to deliveries in Q3. |
| 1:28.1 | So we anticipated at this that would return to growth in Q3 after a few quarters of being |
| 1:33.7 | down quite severely about 13% in the first half of the year deliveries. |
| 1:38.1 | But with the end of the tax credit in the U.S., then being pulled forward into Q3, |
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