Xiaomi shocks with YU7, Tesla Robotaxi launch and more
Electrek
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4.3 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 64 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 Xiaomi shocking the industry with YU7, Tesla's Robotaxi launch and more.
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
Today, the episode is live at 12:15 a.m instead due to Fred’s travels in China and Seth's in.
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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast:
- Xiaomi YU7 first drive: a $35,000 Ferrari-looking electric SUV with over 400 miles of real range
- Xiaomi received over 200,000 real orders for its Tesla killer in just 3 minutes
- Whoopsie! Uh oh! Here’s all of Tesla Robotaxi’s goofs and gaffes so far
- Tesla fires Musk’s chief of staff who became head of North America and Europe
- Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix 2025: A brief history, full schedule, and teams
- Lucid’s (LCID) midsize EV platform is coming next year, bringing three $50,000 ‘top hats’
- Cadillac’s most affordable EV just got even better with a built-in NACS port and much more
- Cadillac just delivered the first Celestiq, a hand-built ultra-luxury EV that costs $350,000
Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 12:15 a.m. ET (or the video after 1 a.m. ET):
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| 0:00.0 | 32, one, then we are live for an episode of the other day podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Set Winchrop, going us live from California. |
| 0:10.4 | No, Lake Tahoe is still in California, right? |
| 0:12.1 | Not Nevada. |
| 0:13.4 | Yeah, we're on the Lake Tahoe. |
| 0:14.9 | We're on the California side of Lake Tahoe. |
| 0:17.7 | Yeah, so sorry about the weird timing of the podcast. |
| 0:21.3 | Like, I'm still in China right now. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm flying back later tonight for me, morning for you guys. |
| 0:27.8 | And set obviously is on West Coast time today. |
| 0:31.4 | So I pulled them out of a little dinner while we can like squeeze in this little podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Well, little podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | There has been a little bit fewer news on electric this week as we've been traveling |
| 0:44.1 | and not posting as much, but there's still plenty to talk about. |
| 0:47.5 | Obviously, there was the Robo Taxi launch that happened right after last week's podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Plenty to talk about there there but now that last night |
| 0:57.3 | the shami yu seven which is the main reason i'm here in china was launch i can talk about it in more |
| 1:02.9 | details and the big like we already already talked about it quite a bit because uh shami was not |
| 1:08.9 | shy about releasing a lot of information about it |
| 1:11.5 | over the last few weeks, |
| 1:12.8 | even a few months, |
| 1:13.8 | really. |
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