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Tesla delivery record, V4 Supercharger, messy US EV market, and more

Electrek

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Leisure/automotive, Clean, Leisure, Technology, 3, Energy, Musk, Vehicles, Automotive, Tesla, Electric, Elon, Electrek, Evs, Model

4.3621 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.

The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

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Transcript

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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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