Tesla's disaster earnings, Beijing Auto Show is mad, new EVs galore
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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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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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2026 financial results: slight beat on earnings
- Tesla seems to say Robotaxi launch will be pushed back in 5 US cities
- Tesla (TSLA) pulled questionable levers to make Q1 2026 financials look good
- Elon Musk pushes unsupervised FSD for consumer Teslas — again
- Tesla will build factories just to retrofit millions of HW3 cars it said could do FSD
- Tesla confirms Cybercab production has started despite delays in unsupervised driving
- Tesla announces HW4 Plus with doubled memory — will HW4 follow HW3 to the grave?
- Tesla (TSLA) quietly discloses $2 billion AI hardware company acquisition buried in filing
- Tesla Model YL prototype spotted on US roads for the first time
- Porsche Cayenne Coupe Electric is an off-road capable, 2.4s 0-60mph beauty and beast
- BMW unveils the new i7 with nearly 450 miles of range and Neue Klasse style [Images]
- XPeng unveils GX flagship SUV with 750 km range, L4-ready hardware for $58,000
- Hyundai unveils sleek new IONIQ V: a production car that looks like a concept
- Hyundai unveils the IONIQ 3 with class-leading range and a new infotainment [Images]
- CATL is launching sodium-ion batteries in EVs in 2026, aiming for 370+ miles range
- Rivian (RIVN) starts R2 production days after tornado hit factory, deliveries this spring
- Xpeng is actually building this electric flying car — I visited the factory
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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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