Episode 144: Q1 Earnings Call Highlights and Analysis (aka Mr. Musk's Wild Ride)
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2018
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
It's my favorite episode to do every quarter: the earnings call analysis! I've got highlights and my insights on everything that was said by Elon and the rest of the Tesla executive team on the Q1 conference call. Buckle up!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride The Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, it's my favorite episode to do every quarter, the earnings call analysis. |
| 0:08.4 | I've got highlights and my insights on everything that was said by Elon and the rest of the Tesla executive team during the Q1 conference call, buckle up. Oh, Welcome friends I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is episode number 144 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:42.4 | the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:43.6 | podcast for May 6th 2018 I am flanked as always by the chilled out |
| 0:48.8 | Daisy the boxer puppy and I don't want to waste any time there is a lot to get to this week it was a pretty |
| 0:56.4 | Crazy conference call for the Q1 earnings that Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team opened up two investors, analysts, and even a, |
| 1:07.0 | it was referred to as a Ytuber, but I guess he does have a YouTube thing, but he represents a group of retail stockholders. |
| 1:15.0 | And he got some good time with Elon Musk on the call. |
| 1:20.0 | But before I get to that, I wanted to just open with one quick tip before I forget. |
| 1:25.0 | So a friend of mine at work, Todd took delivery of his beautiful model three this week, |
| 1:31.0 | the first one in our building. we've got two or three model S's down there at all times, |
| 1:37.4 | but first model three goes Todd's way, looks gorgeous. The fit and finish looked phenomenal. I myself and another |
| 1:46.1 | coworker and Todd all walked around it and we're we're kind of talking about that |
| 1:49.8 | topic like man no this car looks great so anyway he found out an interesting thing because he |
| 1:55.4 | lives in the North Bay and long story short this is kind of a Bay Area specific |
| 2:01.7 | pro tip but it could potentially apply to your area as well. |
| 2:06.0 | So when you take delivery of your model 3, and I presume this applies to model S and model X as well, |
| 2:12.0 | you might want to go in and disable the and |
| 2:14.0 | disable the option in the in the navigation settings that defaults to |
| 2:20.4 | to routing you through areas with no tolls. |
| 2:24.1 | It were the, you know, in the words, turn off the avoid tolls thing because he showed me the |
| 2:29.6 | screenshot. |
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