Tesla Roadster gets a date, VW XL1 comes back electric, BYD's new Tesla fighter, 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 the Tesla Roadster getting a reveal date, VW XL1 coming back electric, BYD's new Tesla fighter, 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 teases new Roadster reveal for October 1: ‘Go for launch’ Tesla’s record month: 4 fatal Autopilot and Full Self-Driving crashes Tesla’s new ‘Accordion’ Supercharger could speed up its slow buildout Volkswagen Mission Efficiency: the XL1 comes back as 1,000-mile range electric car BYD undercuts the Tesla Model 3 with its new Formula S EV, starting at under $29,000 Volkswagen’s new electric hot hatch delivers more power than the Golf GTI [Images] Lucid and Bolt to deploy 25,000 autonomous EVs across Europe Hyundai opens orders for its new electric van, starting at about $66,500 Kia’s new EV van is over 17.5 ft long and can haul 9 people or lots of cargo [Images] Hyundai warns the US may be next in line for a wave of cheaper Chinese 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/mtxhuW6pS_A