Tesla, Ford, GM earnings, Rivian R2, and more
Electrek
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On 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, Ford, and GM earnings, Rivian R2, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) releases Q2 2024 results: billion-dollar revenue beat
- Tesla gives encouraging update on 4680 battery cells
- Tesla accelerates plans for cheaper electric vehicles, but not the $25,000 EV
- Tesla Robotaxi unveiling now planned for October 10, Elon hints at ‘one more thing’
- Elon Musk would be ‘surprised’ if Tesla doesn’t have ‘unsupervised self-driving’ next year
- Elon Musk signals reaching limit of Tesla’s HW3 despite self-driving promise
- Tesla warns against wet towel trick to speed up Supercharging
- Ford misses Q2 earnings by a wide margin as EV losses reach $2.5 billion in 2024
- GM claims its next cycle of EV growth is coming, but when?
- Rivian R2 pre-orders ‘well over’ 100,000 and climbing
- Porsche scales back 80% EV goal by 2030 amid falling sales, shifting market
- Google’s Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo
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 | Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by the publisher of Electrek Set Wintra. |
| 0:13.0 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:14.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:15.0 | All right. |
| 0:17.0 | I hope you are because it's Hearning week, at least for Tesla, for GM. |
| 0:21.7 | We have a few more coming up next week, but that always comes with a lot of news, |
| 0:25.3 | especially when you come to Tesla. |
| 0:27.6 | So we're going to jump right into that Q2, 2024. |
| 0:33.6 | It was a miss on the earnings by a solid 10 cents or so. |
| 0:40.1 | Yes, 61 cents per share was the expectation from Wall Street. |
| 0:46.0 | And Tesla came a little bit below that at 52 cent per share. |
| 0:50.0 | That's a non-gap earnings. |
| 0:53.5 | But they did beat revenue by a solid B, a solid billion at 25.5 versus 24.380 was the |
| 1:05.3 | Wall Street expectation. All right. So a little bit of a missing earnings Big a beat on the revenue, kind of awash there. |
| 1:14.2 | So then you have to go into the details a little bit. |
| 1:17.9 | And, you know, Tesla is, let me mute that. |
| 1:21.3 | Here I get a bit of alerts going on on my side. |
| 1:26.1 | Do not disturb me. |
| 1:30.0 | Sorry about that. |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah, so the stock went down as much as like 5% right after the release of the actual financials. |
| 1:38.9 | But then it dropped 12% throughout the next few hours and the next day. |
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