Tesla Solar, Volvo EX60 unveiled, Xiaomi YU7 GT, and AMG GT
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 60 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 going back to solar, Volvo EX60 unveiling, Xiaomi YU7 GT, AMG GT, and more.
Today’s episode is sponsored by GM Energy. If you want to experience more resilience and control over your home energy, the GM Energy Home System adds stationary battery power for always-ready backup energy for your home, and the GM Energy PowerBank takes in energy from the grid and stores it for when you need it most. Learn more at gmenergy.gm.com
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Tesla Cybercab: hate it or love it, it is the most efficient EV ever
- Tesla can’t seem to figure out the power of its new cheap Model 3
- Exclusive: Tesla (TSLA) is building its giant solar panel factory in Houston
- SpaceX S-1 reveals Tesla’s Terafab deal is far from done
- Volvo reveals EX60 prices start at under $60,000 with over 300 miles of range
- World premiere: The most powerful Mercedes AMG ever is electric
- Xiaomi’s new YU7 undercuts Tesla Model Y by $4,350 with 50 km more range
- Lucid’s more affordable Cosmos midsize SUV spotted testing next to Tesla Model Y
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 | Two, one, we are alive for a new episode of the Et Trek podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host. |
| 0:07.0 | And as usual, I'm joined by my co-host, Seth Ointraub. |
| 0:10.1 | Are we doing good this week, Seth? |
| 0:11.7 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:13.0 | All right. |
| 0:14.1 | Before we jump right in, I want to say a quick thank you to today's sponsored GM Energy. |
| 0:20.4 | If you want to experience more resilience and control over your home energy, |
| 0:24.6 | the GM Energy home system adds stationary battery power for always ready, backup energy for |
| 0:30.0 | your home. |
| 0:30.8 | And the GM Energy PowerBanks takes in energy from the grid and stores it for when you need it |
| 0:35.4 | the most. |
| 0:36.4 | Learn more at gmenergy.g.gm.com. |
| 0:40.3 | We're going to have a little bit more to say about them later on the show, |
| 0:42.8 | so stay tuned for that. |
| 0:44.2 | But thank you GM Energy for sponsoring this week's episode of the electric podcast. |
| 0:49.5 | And on this week's episode, we're going to talk about a bunch of different things. |
| 0:52.3 | We talk about the, well, a little bit about the event of the delivery of the Tesla, the very last |
| 1:00.9 | Tesla mal S and X, but honestly, there was not that much to talk about on the event, which |
| 1:06.1 | kind of just a little farewell, but there was one piece of information about the cyber |
| 1:10.6 | cab that I thought was |
| 1:11.4 | worth talking about so we're going to do that I'm going to talk about the situation the word |
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