Tesla earnings were wild, new BMW iX, some EVs won't make it to the US, and more

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 wild Q4 earnings, a new BMW iX, some EVs not making it to the US, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in. After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS We now have a Patreon if you want to help us avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming. Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast: Tesla (TSLA) releases Q4 2024 results: big miss on revenue and earnings Elon Musk: Tesla will launch unsupervised full self-driving in Austin as paid service in June Elon Musk finally admits that Tesla will have to replace its HW3 self-driving computers A quarter of Tesla’s earnings were due to recognizing a $600 million gain on Bitcoin You’ll die without a solar roof says Musk, whose admin made it harder to get solar Tesla announces third Megafactory as competition heats up Elon Musk says Tesla aims to build 10,000 Optimus robots this year Tesla announces all V4 Superchargers can now charge up to 325kW in North America Tesla’s charge port location is due to Elon Musk’s garage layout, says Lucid CEO Meet the updated BMW iX: Now with more range, a light-up kidney grille, and a lower price Ford just dropped a tri-motor Mustang Mach-E EV for NASCAR and it looks beastly Kia EV5 is sadly not coming to the US, but it will arrive next door with an NACS port After delays, the VW ID.7 now won’t be coming to the US at all Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET): https://www.youtube.com/live/bh9lYzcwlWI