Episode 120: New Roadster and Semi Revealed, aka Elon Musk Drops the Mic
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning: The Tesla Unofficial Podcast, Tesla finally unveils their Semi Truck and then blows everyone's minds with the next-gen Roadster. Plus: more on my Model 3 test drive. Huge show this week!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a Ride to Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.3 | Tesla finally unveils their semi-truck and then blows everyone's minds with the next-gen |
| 0:08.8 | roadster. Plus, more on my model three test drive, huge show this week. What's happening, I'm Ryan McCaffrey? This is Ride the Lightning |
| 0:37.6 | the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast episode number 120 for November 19th, 2017 or if you happen to be a |
| 0:45.2 | Patreon backer a few days early I'm actually recording Thursday actually well |
| 0:50.1 | technically it's frat well it will be friday by the time I'm done recording this. |
| 0:53.7 | It is nearly the witching hour here on Thursday night. |
| 0:56.6 | I've just spent my evening packing for my trip |
| 0:59.6 | to my Thanksgiving trip tomorrow. |
| 1:01.3 | And listening to a few times actually the Tesla |
| 1:06.2 | semi-unvailing if you have not heard it it is insane it's he was huge I've got all the good stuff here for you. I would encourage you to watch it, however, as well. I'm sure the |
| 1:16.8 | video on demand version will go up on Tesla's YouTube page, but it was astounding. I am, by the way, I am not quite myself. I've been under the weather all week. |
| 1:28.0 | I was out, had to be out sick from work yesterday and today. I'm only just starting to bounce back, but you can probably hear it in my voice a little bit so I do apologize I'm not quite |
| 1:37.3 | My usual self as far as vocal |
| 1:39.9 | vocal strength, but boy, am I fired up? |
| 1:43.0 | I'm going to, my voice will be as fired up as it possibly can be on this week's show |
| 1:47.5 | because my goodness, Tesla just blew the doors off of everybody. The Tesla semi-roof. the total, you know, it was originally hinted at September, then it was October, now here we are in |
| 2:04.8 | November, but it has happened, and, uh, but hold that thought. Let's put a pin in the |
| 2:10.0 | Tesla semi for just a few minutes because the show was absolutely stolen |
| 2:16.8 | by the Next Gen Tesla Roadster. They rolled it out of the back of one of the semis after the semi portion of the event was done. |
| 2:27.0 | So yes, Night Rider style. They rolled it out Night Rider style. |
| 2:31.0 | So by the way, if you had that in your what will be the |
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