This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla deliveries pushing for record quarter, the new Lightyear solar car, BMW's electrification effort, and more.

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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast today:

Tesla orders surge for record quarter, but deliveries are the bottleneck

Tesla loses its head of production at critical time, source says

Tesla releases new ‘Standby mode’ to make Enhanced Summon faster

Tesla’s new Roadster 0-60 mph acceleration gets downgraded to 2.1 secs ‘without rocket thrusters’

Tesla gives updates on cause of a battery fire, says single module is responsible

Tesla is developing its own cells in-house at ‘secret battery lab’, report says

Jaguar targets Tesla owners in advert for I-Pace, makes bold comparison with Model X

Lightyear unveils its ‘solar’ electric car with 450 miles of range

BMW accelerates electric car plans by 2 years, unveils new EV concepts

BMW builds Tesla Roadster-like drivetrain, tri-motor electric prototype w/10K Nm torque

BMW unveils its latest electric motorcycle concept: The Vision DC Roadster

BMW unveils electric concept that looks like next-gen i8 sports car

BMW says there’s no demand for all-electric cars – they are wrong

Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00pm ET (or the video after 5:00pm ET):