Episode 132: Model 3 Delayed Again + Q4 Earnings Call Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2018
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Model 3 is delayed again for *almost* everyone. Plus: a deep-dive into Tesla's Q4 earnings call, including all of the best sound bites from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, the model 3 is delayed again for almost everyone. |
| 0:07.3 | Plus a deep dive into Tesla's Q4 earnings call, including all of the best soundbites from Elon Musk and the entire Tesla Executive |
| 0:15.2 | team. Oh, Welcome friends I'm Ryan McCaffrey and this is Ride the Lightning |
| 0:39.0 | the Tesla Unofficial Podcast. It's episode 132 for February 11th 2018. To my left, Daisy the Boxer |
| 0:46.8 | puppy sleeping like a like a log. She had a very very active puppy play session this evening and yeah she is she's out for the |
| 0:56.3 | count I think in fact it wouldn't surprise me if she starts snoring and then louder and |
| 1:00.9 | louder and louder as the podcast goes. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, it was a heck of a week for Elon Musk, certainly, |
| 1:08.0 | some highs, the highest of highs and probably some significant lows as well. |
| 1:13.0 | Certainly it was a low week for a lot of us, |
| 1:16.0 | a lot of the Model 3 reservation holders, |
| 1:18.0 | a lot of Tesla fans, |
| 1:19.0 | the stock took a beating this week, |
| 1:21.0 | the delays, we'll talk about all of that, but I did want to start by just, you know, I know this isn't a SpaceX |
| 1:27.7 | podcast, it's not an Elon Muskiverse podcast, but I absolutely have to take a moment to congratulate Elon Musk and the entire |
| 1:37.2 | SpaceX team for a remarkably successful first test launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket this week. |
| 1:45.7 | I don't know if you've had a chance to see it. |
| 1:47.7 | If you have not seen it, you've no doubt heard about it, but it is still just unbelievable to watch. The whole thing is really if you just |
| 1:55.6 | fast forward in the the replay of the live stream just down to you know T minus a |
| 2:01.3 | minute start there and you start hearing the cheering I mean I don't want to |
| 2:05.6 | give anything away but it is it's about eight minutes long so that's the point is if you |
| 2:10.7 | just fast forward to right before launch it's only like |
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