Tesla earnings, Scout EV launch, solid-state is coming, and more
Electrek
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4.2 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 87 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 earnings and all the news that came out of it, the launch of VW's Scout EV, solid-state batteries finally coming, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) releases Q3 2024 results: misses on revenue but jumps on margins
- Tesla (TSLA) predicts a record Q4, stock jumps 8%
- Tesla’s profits are now coming from things Elon Musk said he wouldn’t do
- Tesla reiterates affordable models coming in 1H 2025, but with no new details
- Tesla has produced its 7 millionth electric car
- Elon Musk finally admits Tesla’s HW3 might not support full self-driving
- Elon Musk just said some wild things about Tesla’s self-driving rollout
- Musk waffles about Tesla Roadster 2025 production – ‘close to’ finalizing design
- Tesla’s energy storage business is booming, but solar is gone
- New Tesla Model Y vehicles with design refresh spotted in China
- Tesla unveils Oasis: a new Supercharger concept with its own solar farm and Megapacks
- Tesla delays Cybertruck’s range extender, reduces its range
- Scout EVs have arrived and are available for pre-order with 500+ mile range, but there’s a catch
- The $35,000 Chevy Equinox EV is finally here
- QuantumScape begins low-volume production of first B-sample solid-state cells for OEM testing
- The electric Dodge Charger will hit the road with Factorial’s solid-state EV batteries in 2026
- Waymo secures $5.6 billion in new funding before expanding robotaxis to new cities in 2025
- Selling ever more EVs, Xiaomi ramps up factory expansion
- Ford CEO doesn’t want to give up this Chinese EV he’s been driving for months
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 alive for a new episode of the Electric Podcast. I am Fred Lambert, your host. And as usual, I'm |
| 0:08.3 | joined by Seth Wintraub. How are you doing today, Seth? I'm good. All right, I hope you are, |
| 0:13.7 | because I don't always say it's a big episode, but this one is really a big one. If you just look at the |
| 0:18.2 | amount of articles we're going to cover here, there's a lot of things to cover. It's because it's a little earning week. So if you just look at the amount of articles we're going to cover here there's a lot of things |
| 0:21.5 | to cover it's because it's a tesla earning week so if you're not into the tesla stuff you can probably |
| 0:26.7 | like skip 30 minutes ahead and you'll you'll be catching up because we have a ton of other |
| 0:31.2 | non-tester things to discuss too but before we do that I want to give a quick thank you to our sponsor |
| 0:36.3 | because a big episode deserve big sponsors. |
| 0:38.8 | And today's episode is sponsored by Blue Eddie, a leading provider of portable power stations, |
| 0:43.3 | solar generators, and energy storage system for a limited time save up to 50% during Blue |
| 0:48.9 | Eddie's Halloween cell now through October 301st. |
| 0:52.3 | You can learn more about it in the show notes, but we're going to |
| 0:55.5 | talk a bit more about them later on on the show. And also a big thank you to Allset Auto for |
| 1:01.0 | sponsoring this week episode, the North America's leader in paint protection and restiling, |
| 1:05.4 | offering quartered wraps, paint protection, window tint, ceramic coating, and more exclusively on EV. |
| 1:12.5 | You can also learn more about them in the show notes, but we're going to talk a little bit about |
| 1:15.6 | them later on on the show. |
| 1:17.9 | All right. |
| 1:18.9 | It was Tesla's earnings this week, and we wrote a lot of articles about it. |
| 1:26.6 | There was a lot of the news that came out about the earnings. |
| 1:30.5 | Tesla did miss on the revenue with 20, it was expected to be just short of 25.5 billion. |
| 1:38.9 | Tesla came in at just short of 25.2, so not a big deal. |
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