Tesla Semi is here, Xpeng VLA 2.0 test drive, Rivian earnings, and more
Electrek
9to5Mac
4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 74 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 Semi entering production, our Xpeng VLA 2.0 test drive, Rivian's earnings, and more.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Semi: first truck rolls off high-volume production line
- Tesla launches Basecharger for Semi, reveals $188,000 Megacharger
- Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ unsupervised fleet finally shows some signs of ramping up
- Tesla promises FSD V14 Lite for HW3 cars internationally to appease growing tensions
- I went to the Beijing Auto Show and it’s a glimpse at the future of the auto industry
- Xpeng VLA 2.0 test drive: Tesla is not alone with ‘Full Self-Driving’ anymore
- First drive: next-gen Xiaomi SU7 shows how fast Chinese EVs are improving
- Rivian (RIVN) lifts production capacity for its Georgia plant by 50% to 300K vehicles annually
- CATL says sodium batteries are mainstream-ready, signs massive 60 GWh deal
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 | We are live. |
| 0:09.2 | A new episode of the Electric Podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Fred Hamburg, the host. |
| 0:13.8 | As usual, I'm joined by Seth Winshaw. |
| 0:15.8 | Are we doing today, Seth? |
| 0:17.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:18.4 | Sir. |
| 0:19.5 | All right. |
| 0:20.2 | What are we talking about this week? |
| 0:21.7 | Talking about I'm back. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm back from China. |
| 0:25.0 | Crazy experience. |
| 0:26.1 | We're going to talk a little bit about it later on the show. |
| 0:28.4 | We're going to talk about, you know, last week I think I was just at the show. |
| 0:33.8 | But then right after the podcast, I spent a whole day at the show so I can talk. |
| 0:38.8 | He's a little bit more about it because it was nuts. |
| 0:41.8 | I walked like 20 kilometers throughout these halls. |
| 0:44.8 | It was insane. |
| 0:47.2 | Then I had my Ex-Peng VLA 2.0 test drive. |
| 0:50.8 | I haven't got to discuss. |
| 0:51.5 | I had the Shao M 2 7 refresh test drive. |
| 0:54.4 | We're going to talk |
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