Episode 183: Q4 Earnings Call Recap and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Tesla releases their earnings report for Q4 2018. I've got clips and highlights of Elon Musk and the executive team from the earnings call and analysis of Tesla's report. Plus big news about Model S and Model X. Stay tuned!
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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 their earnings report for Q4 2018. I've got clips and highlights of |
| 0:09.5 | Elon Musk and the executive team from the earnings call and analysis of Tesla's report. |
| 0:15.0 | Plus big news about the model S and model X stay tuned. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined as always by Daisy the boxer puppy who |
| 0:43.9 | gazes longingly out the window at a stormy icky night here in San Francisco. Poor dog didn't |
| 0:50.9 | get to go out for her evening walk today, so she's a little bum. |
| 0:53.8 | But I am happy to be here with you. |
| 0:56.6 | It is episode 183 of the unofficial Tesla Podcast, also known as Ride the Lightning, for February 3rd, 2019, and this is your quarterly earnings |
| 1:08.6 | call recap show. |
| 1:10.2 | These are my, my, pretty much my favorite episodes to do throughout the year. I get to do four of them |
| 1:16.5 | a lot goes into them but I'm always I always feel like I've done almost almost real radio when I come out of these because I've got clips of Elon |
| 1:26.0 | you got you know just it feels it feels like a production for me at least with these |
| 1:31.1 | hopefully for you too but I wanted to start this week before I get to the earnings call |
| 1:35.8 | with a quick apology I messed up last week and at the beginning of the ride the lightning hotline |
| 1:46.8 | I played the wrong, I guess it was either the wrong caller or the wrong response, whichever way you want to look at it, I mixed up my files. I won't bore you with the details, but anyway I heard from a few |
| 1:56.0 | of people that kindly let me know. I fixed it and replaced the show on Monday night. So if you happen to hear the erroneous version of the |
| 2:06.4 | podcast last week that a part there in the beginning of the Ride the |
| 2:10.6 | Lightning Hotline that didn't quite make sense well it wasn't |
| 2:13.4 | you it was me and for that I apologize happening this weekend I'm looking forward |
| 2:19.1 | to hopefully be able to make it out. There's some bad weather, but the My Tesla Adventure event this weekend that's Eli Burton runs that he does a great job up here in the Bay Area. |
| 2:31.0 | He is doing he's put together a nice drive. We're starting, we're going to meet up at the |
| 2:37.1 | factory, at the Tesla factory, and then drive to Santa Cruz down, which is down along the highway one along the the the |
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