Tesla Semi nails big test, BMW iX3 range impresses, Xpeng catches up to Tesla, 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 Semi nailing a big test, BMW iX3's range impressing in a new test, Xpeng catching up to Tesla, 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 Semi tackles the Grapevine with a loaded trailer, leaves fleet operator ‘amazed’ Tesla retroactively added ‘supervised’ to FSD contracts owners signed years ago Tesla patents camera wiper for self-driving — resulting in more doubts for FSD owners BMW’s new iX3 drove 485 miles on a single charge, the longest-range EV in NAF’s test Xpeng spends $500M/year on AI training to beat Tesla FSD BYD will pay for crashes on its FSD competitor, something Tesla never has Toyota pulls the plug on one of its most important EVs 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/Ruhm-twKcmE