Tesla Semi, mixed bag of EV sales, Chinese EVs in the US, and more

But, uh, we're gonna talk about Tesla just released the Tesla Semi European spec ahead of the launch next week.

So that's interesting.

Tesla is already adapting the Tesla Semi to, uh, the European market, which is, um, already adopting electric trucks a lot faster than North America.

We're gonna talk about global EV sales.

Uh, it's kind of a big mixed bag.

A big boom in Europe, big slowdown North America.

Uh, Volvo killed off another EV in the US, which is kind of in line with that.

We're gonna talk about that.

Uh, we're gonna talk about Trump, a rumor, even though I don't put a lot of weight on that rumor, that Trump may open Chinese EVs to the US market, um, as part of a deal with China as, uh, the Chinese President Xi is, is visiting, I think, next week also.

We're gonna talk about the Xiaomi Sky Nomad that just got its pricing.

It's gonna be a, the third vehicle from the very impressive Chinese brand.

BYD cutting the price on the Denza Z9 GT, uh, which is a very impressive vehicle in itself.

And Nissan unveiling its new, uh, well, at least giving a first look at its new entry-level EV, the Pixel.

Pixel.

Interesting name.

All right, let's jump in with the Tesla Semi European specs that was, uh, confirmed this week.

Tesla says up to five hundred and fifty kilometers of range at forty tons, which is fully loaded.

Uh, a hundred kilowatt, um, one kilowatt hour per kilometers of, uh, energy efficiency.

Megachargers up to eight hundred kilowatts, recovering sixty percent of the range in just thirty minutes.

EPTU up to twenty-five kilowatts.

That's the power takeoff in the back, so you can power things like, uh, you know, a refrigerated trailer or something like that.

And then, um, forty ton gross combination weight at nine thousand one hundred kilogram curb weight.

So there's a, a lot of things here that are different than the US version.

First off, right away, the range.

Five hundred and fifty kilometers, that's three hundred and forty-two miles of range.