Tesla Semi nails big test, BMW iX3 range impresses, Xpeng catches up to Tesla, and more

[upbeat music] We are live for a new episode of the DataCheck Podcast.

I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintram.

How you doing, Seth?

I'm good.

All right.

Microphone is in.

We're locked in, people.

Uh, what are we gonna talk about this week? No sponsor this week.

No sponsor, so gonna skip you the ads this week.

We're gonna talk about, uh, Tesla Semi that went through the Grapevines, one of the tougher situation that can get for, uh, heavy trucking.

Uh, and apparently it aced it, so we're gonna talk a little bit about that.

Gonna talk a bit about, uh, Tesla changing...

Oh, sorry.

Think Seth used the microphone.

All right.

I think I'm good.

So I think some, um, uh, being a little bit sneaky, sneaky Tesla with, uh, retroactively changing the FSD contracts to people.

[laughs] That's, uh, retroactively-

Can you do that?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

We gotta talk about that.

It's a, it's a wild one.

Um, we gotta talk about camera wipers on Tesla vehicles, so that's interesting.

The BMW iX3 getting a real world range test out of Norway, and, uh, impressive results.

Xpeng, and we'll talk a little bit about, uh, just yesterday I had a, a cool interview with the head of AI, Monsieur Sha- Xiaming, um, Liu, the head of, uh, AI at, uh, Xpeng, and, um, gonna talk a little bit about that.

Um, BYD is doing something very interesting with their FSD competitor in term of liability, so gonna discuss that too.

And then Toyota putting, pulling the plug on one more EV unfortunately.