Episode 179: Tesla's Huge 2018
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Tesla releases impressive production and delivery numbers for 2018, progress continues on Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, notes from my return road trip in my Model 3, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla releases some impressive production and delivery numbers for the now completed year of 2018. |
| 0:09.6 | Progress continues on Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai. |
| 0:13.4 | I've got some notes and some learnings from my 1600 |
| 0:16.9 | total mile round trip in my model 3 and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Happy New Year to you. Welcome to |
| 0:44.8 | 2019 to my left curled up in a little boxer ball would be of course Daisy |
| 0:50.3 | the boxer puppy who was the perfect |
| 0:53.6 | perfect road trip companion. She could not have been a more well-behaved dog. |
| 0:58.0 | I will tell you about my adventures |
| 1:00.0 | to San Francisco to Phoenix and back later on in the podcast |
| 1:04.3 | But for now I wanted to get things started right away with besides the happy new year wish which by the way I'd like to say thank you to Elon Musk for kindly returning my happy new year wish. |
| 1:16.0 | He wrote right back and said happy new year, which made me feel really good. |
| 1:19.4 | Happy new year to all of you. |
| 1:20.8 | Here's to a great 2019 for all of us for you for me for Tesla and hopefully |
| 1:27.4 | for for the world at large let's have some fun model S model, model X, model 3, semi, roadster, model Y, whatever you're wanting to see, |
| 1:37.0 | whatever you're wanting to buy, here's hoping we have a lot of fun. |
| 1:41.0 | Leon Musk did take to Twitter not just to say happy new year to be but also on New Year's |
| 1:48.8 | day he said simply congratulations Tesla team, exclamation mark, with a picture of a bunch of team |
| 1:56.4 | members which I would presume were from an LA area store or delivery center since he of course |
| 2:02.3 | spends most of his time down in the Los Angeles area. |
| 2:05.2 | Now it's hard to draw any firm conclusions from that because there was no other context |
| 2:11.6 | for what he was inferring there or what he was meaning. So that really |
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