Tesla is now Elon's, Xpeng goes AI, Rivian earnings, and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 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 how Tesla is now Elon's after the shareholders' meeting, Xpeng going all-in on AI, Rivian's earnings, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) shareholders shoot selves in foot, approve Musk $1 trillion payday
- Elon Musk says Tesla FSD will allow ‘texting and driving’ in ‘a month or two’
- Tesla delays ‘flying’ Roadster demo to April Fools’ Day, production to 2027/28
- Tesla launches ‘Multipass’ in more markets for frictionless third-party charging
- Tesla updates its electric semi truck design
- Xpeng AI Day: new AI model powering robots, robotaxis, and flying cars
- Rivian (RIVN) Q3 2025 report: Revenues and deliveries rise, R2 closer than ever, plus a new AI co.
- Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup may be all but dead
- BMW updates its best-selling EV with more range and power
- Toyota teases a new vehicle and it sure looks like an electric truck
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're going live in three, two, one, and we are alive. |
| 0:06.0 | When you're still the electric podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Fred Land and Virki, a host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Winchow. |
| 0:10.2 | How are you doing today, Seth? |
| 0:11.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:13.7 | All right, I hope you're better than me because you guys are going to excuse my performance |
| 0:18.3 | during this podcast. |
| 0:19.6 | It's 5 a.m. for me right now in China, I just literally just woke up 15 minutes ago for this. |
| 0:26.0 | So I'm still pretty much waking up and I'm feeling a little bit under the weather because I've been running around all the week trying to get some good reporting from you guys on on these uh chinese companies |
| 0:40.3 | and chinese technology that's coming out so i wasn't going zhao or x-bang earlier this week |
| 0:46.4 | and now i just arrived in shenzhen which is a crazy cyberpunk city where a lot of AV automakers are based out at. |
| 0:56.2 | Most famously, obviously, the UID. |
| 0:59.1 | But a bunch of other things, too, like DGI. |
| 1:01.3 | We're trying to get it to DGI and check them out because apparently it's like... |
| 1:04.6 | Oh, that'd be awesome. |
| 1:05.3 | craziest quarters ever. |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | Get into a little report from your own DJ. |
| 1:11.2 | Actually, if you want, I can talk to my PR people there. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, if you can because they, we're having issues to get in. |
| 1:18.3 | They just, they are not, well, I mean, it's because of the filming too. |
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