This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla announcing a new delivery record, Smart Summon going viral, Tesla acquiring an AI startup, and more. (Note we're starting at Noon ET for the foreseeable future) Support our show! The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site. The show is back live every Friday at 12pm 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 1pm ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps through our RSS feed: https://electrek.co/podcastRSS. Grab the quick link to iTunes here. We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to 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 today: Tesla announces record deliveries of 97,000 cars in Q3 Tesla ‘has a shot’ at record 100,000 cars this quarter – Elon Musk in email leak Tesla is ‘a few thousand’ cars short of its delivery goal with a day left Tesla owners make over half a million ‘Smart Summons’, a few crashes bring NHTSA scrutiny Tesla owners are already doing dumb things with ‘Smart Summon’ Driverless Tesla gets pulled over by police on ‘Smart Summon’ — staged or not? Tesla acquires AI startup DeepScale to help build self-driving robotaxis Tesla offers 72-hour backup of Sentry Mode videos in data-collecting effort Tesla is working on its own ‘more efficient’ seat with temperature-control system Tesla patents a more efficient power assist steering system Tesla is developing a bezel-less display technology with ‘holographic’ feature Porsche increases Taycan production capacity after seeing high demand Volvo teases electric XC40 in new images, confirms features like frunk, and more Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 4:00pm ET (or the video after 5:00pm ET):