Tesla minivan but cooler?, used EV sales rise, sodium batteries are coming
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 52 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 coming with minivan but cooler?, used EV sales rising, sodium batteries are coming, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla is coming out with ‘something cooler than a minivan’, says Elon Musk
- Tesla (TSLA) publishes Q1 2026 delivery consensus: 365,645 vehicles expected
- Tesla Semi has a million-mile battery, claims Tesla
- New EV sales drop 28% in Q1 2026, but used EVs surge 12% to near-record levels
- Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range
- Slush pits and snowball fights: Slate’s upcoming pickup endures winter testing [Video]
- Volkswagen Group’s joint venture with Rivian hits latest milestone, unlocking another $1B for the EV automaker
- Honda pulls the plug on its PlayStation EV on wheels with Sony
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 | One, and we are live for New Brazil Electric Podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:05.2 | And as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra. |
| 0:07.2 | How are you doing today, sir? |
| 0:08.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:09.7 | All right. |
| 0:10.9 | I am talking to you through my iPhone right now because Streamyard decided to have an update |
| 0:16.2 | and do not recognize my road microphone anymore. |
| 0:20.5 | So there's that. I hope it's going to get the rest |
| 0:23.8 | going to go smoothly with this new update. Let me just check one more time. It's just annoying |
| 0:30.0 | there. Nope, still not there. Okay. All right. What are we going to talk about this week? |
| 0:34.7 | We're going to talk about a little bit of Tesla. We're going to talk about apparently a new vehicle coming out of Tesla. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm a bit skeptical. |
| 0:44.3 | Q1 delivery consensus was released this week. |
| 0:46.8 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 0:48.3 | We're going to talk about the only vehicle program of Tesla that I'm excited about, |
| 0:52.3 | which is a Tesla SMI that had, you know, |
| 0:55.9 | not an unveiling this week, but one of the most detailed look at it through our friend Jay Leno. |
| 1:04.8 | We're going to talk a little bit about the impact in the U.S.E.V. market of the tax credit going away, but also the gas, gas prices |
| 1:15.4 | going up like crazy right now. I think it just closed over $100 again, a barrel I'm talking. |
| 1:22.7 | We're going to talk about sodium batteries that are making a real push in EVs prior to only being, well, |
| 1:30.5 | primarily being used in stationary energy storage. |
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