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Tesla's disaster earnings, Beijing Auto Show is mad, new EVs galore

Electrek

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

4.3621 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 80 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 disaster earnings, the Beijing Auto Show being absolutely insane, and a plethora of new EVs unveiled this week.

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0:00.0

But yeah, crazy, crazy, crazy week.

0:04.3

Crazy week with Tesla earnings that were nuts this week.

0:08.0

And then the Beijing Auto Show I was at yesterday was complete madness.

0:14.0

I had never been to the Beijing Auto Show.

0:16.3

And I know it's been growing every year and every year.

0:19.7

And even people that have been before that I joined yesterday were completely floored by just

0:27.0

how big it has gotten.

0:28.9

It's, you remember said when we were at the IAA?

0:34.7

And it was like the Frankfurt originally and then it was Munich.

0:40.2

It is like the IAA from Munich and the IA from Frankfurt combined together.

0:46.6

It's insane.

0:49.7

It's massive.

0:51.1

There's so many, there's too many people to be honest with you.

0:54.0

It's just, you cannot,

0:55.2

like all the cars, like yesterday was the first day. So all the new cars that were on the

0:59.6

I couldn't even get to really because it was just, yeah, I was at the Shanghai Auto Show last year.

1:07.2

And I think they moved it back and forth, right? Because I just saw, you posted your Chinese driver's license.

1:13.9

And then I saw my Chinese driver's license come up in my like, you know, a year ago today, Facebook or whatever.

1:21.2

So I think, I think they, they move it back and forth from Beijing to Shanghai.

1:27.1

That might be because they do call it, they don't call it the Beijing

1:30.1

or so some people call it that here, but the official name is the China International

1:37.8

Otisio.

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