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The fully electric version of the company's largest SUV would give buyers three rows of seats at the top of the line.

Electrek reports that the new iX7 will debut around the middle of next year, with production following later at Spartanburg in South Carolina.

The prototypes suggest the split headlight look and a slimmer upright grille, keeping a more conventional BMW look than the iX3.

The iX7 is expected to have two motors, all-wheel drive, BMW X6, hasn't talked about battery capacity or range nor charging figures.

The October 15, 2026 reveal arrived after repeated delays.

Electrek's account documents that history and the continuing questions about delivery.

I understand why someone who committed money years ago might watch an extraordinary demonstration and still want a straightforward answer about receiving their car.

Enthusiasm does not cancel that question.

Welcome back everybody to a new episode of the wheelie podcast.

I'm your host, Micah Toll, and I'm joined again by Electrek's Seth Weintraub.

How's it going, Seth? I'm good.

Awesome.

Yeah, and relates to the wildfires that we often talk about here on the podcast.

All right, this story is from Electrek.

We love talking about agrivoltaics, the combination of agriculture with solar panels.

So this is in Massachusetts, and it involves cranberry bogs, which is where you grow cranberries.

I installed it on my phone for the first time probably a few months ago.

Um, again, not because I hadn't heard of it or didn't know that a lot of people really love it, but because I was trying to read the comments on an Electrek article, and I literally couldn't.

The page was completely broken because of an ad that was covering my ability to go through and read the comments, and as you know, I like comments more than I like watching videos or reading articles.

It's like, it's my crack cocaine, and I'm an addict.

we are live for a new episode of the electric podcast i am fred lambert your host and as usual i'm joined by seth winchell for a special episode of the electric podcast the roadster episode how are you doing seth i'm good yes i'm good too um i was supposed to be in paris this week didn't work out uh turns out your expiration date on your passport It's not a real experience.

You need to be 90 days or fewer for the Schengen zone.

And they turned me away at the airport.

myself I was like bullshit it's like yeah Trump I don't see a difference between Trump and Elon these days anyways it's like the same person so whether it's Trump that got the idea or Elon but Elon dumped it on Trump it's like that was Trump basically and then it came out today there's a report in the Telegraph that says that Elon went to Trump and gave him the idea it was like you know we can just you know throttle the speed and screw Ukraine so that you can put more pressure on them ahead of the negotiation it's like the asshole he's like you put it all on trump but it's like is that was actually his idea which of course it was uh so that came out today which you know probably created more issues for elon all

right i think that's pretty much all of the good comments there's a lot of crosstalk here so yeah yeah

all right well uh that's it for us this week i hope you enjoy this special episode of the podcast the the roadster episode um if you did enjoy this show please give us a like a thumbs up and subscribe wherever it is on the app you're watching we're live everywhere and we're going to see you same time same place next week have a good one

And Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson said that US authorities are scrutinizing how connected cars handle and secure data, and that Volvo proactively demonstrated how it will do that.

Now, Electrek's read on the judgment is this: Volvo is separately listed.

It is more established and has a bigger US footprint, while Polestar is more tightly tied to Chinese parent Geely and shares platforms and software with the Geely brands.

Sweden's Minister for Foreign Trade, Benjamin Dousa, said he worked closely with Volvo to make sure the company could meet the rule's requirements.