Episode 157: Q2 Earnings Call Recap and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2018
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Tesla just held what was perhaps its most important earnings call ever. I've got clips of all the best quotes from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, plus lots of analysis, as well as news of an interior refresh for Model S and X, and much more!
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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, Tesla holds what is perhaps |
| 0:04.9 | their most important earnings call ever. |
| 0:07.6 | I've got clips of all the best quotes from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, |
| 0:12.2 | plus lots of analysis as well as news |
| 0:14.7 | of an interior refresh for Model S&X |
| 0:17.5 | and much more. Oh, Welcome friends. It's episode 1.57 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast for August 5th, 2018, |
| 0:47.0 | although I have to tell you I am recording on August 2nd and the reason for that is I am going to be out of town |
| 0:54.0 | doing a little little baseball trip with my uncles to Riggly Field |
| 0:58.6 | I've got a few uncles in the family who are huge baseball fans like I am and we've been talking for years |
| 1:04.8 | about wouldn't it be cool to like go to a different ballpark every year and so this is the |
| 1:08.9 | year we'd finally planned it and we're finally doing it so we're going to be visiting |
| 1:12.8 | Wrigley Field in Chicago. |
| 1:14.4 | What better place to start? |
| 1:16.4 | I mean you got us either Wrigley or Fenway, right? |
| 1:18.9 | You got to start with one of those. |
| 1:19.8 | So I'll be there and wanted to make sure I got the show done and out to you on time of course so |
| 1:25.0 | recording a little bit early my apologies as always when I when I do need to do this if I happen to miss anything on Friday |
| 1:31.3 | but something tells me the news for this week is |
| 1:35.1 | all set. It was a huge news week I have a big show for you and it's not just the |
| 1:40.0 | earnings call although that's certainly the highlight. |
| 1:43.4 | Before I get started, a couple of things, I wanted to note the bonus episode that I did that |
| 1:48.9 | covered my full delivery day experience and my initial impressions of my model three. |
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