Xiaomi shocks with YU7, Tesla Robotaxi launch 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 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. 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: 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): https://www.youtube.com/live/zXT1hZD8o_I