Episode 195: Q1 Earnings + Autonomy Day Recap and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2019
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Tesla shows all its full self-driving cards at an incredibly thorough, detailed, and impressive autonomy event. Plus: Elon and the executive team talk about Tesla's first quarter and I've got all the highlights and analysis, and as if that wasn't enough, Tesla rolled out MAJOR upgrades to the Model S and Model X. What a week!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tesla shows all its full self-driving cards at an incredibly thorough, detailed, and |
| 0:09.8 | impressive autonomy event. |
| 0:12.1 | Plus, Elon and the executive team talk about Tesla's first quarter and I've got all the highlights and analysis. |
| 0:18.0 | And as if that wasn't enough, Tesla rolled out major upgrades to the model S and model X. |
| 0:24.0 | Warning, huge episode ahead. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 195 of Ride the, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast for April 28th, 2019. |
| 0:57.0 | I am currently not flanked by Daisy the Boxer Puppy on the couch over there. |
| 1:02.0 | She fell asleep upstairs when I was |
| 1:04.6 | putting my daughter to bed so she is zonking out probably snoring up in my |
| 1:08.4 | daughter's bed. We'll see if she finds her way down here as as the show goes on at some point but first I wanted to |
| 1:15.4 | say thank you all so much out there for letting me take a vacation last week |
| 1:19.8 | I hope you enjoyed that best of show that I put together for you. I do welcome, as I said, I welcome all of your constructive feedback on that good or bad. So far the early returns on it seemed to be that people mostly enjoyed it I guess the |
| 1:34.5 | the sound quality on the old Elon presentation from 2011 wasn't that great the |
| 1:41.3 | sort of you know echo in the room made it a little bit tough to listen to |
| 1:44.6 | I apologize for that I did do the best I could with it it was on a 2011 iPhone I guess so that's my excuse but anyway this week boy my goodness I'm so |
| 1:57.1 | glad that I was on vacation for last week rather than this week because this week was so crazy |
| 2:06.0 | just three major things happened as if and two of them were on the calendar one of them was |
| 2:10.8 | unexpected we knew we had the autonomy day where Tesla welcomed a |
| 2:15.8 | list of investors, major investors, into their Palo Alto headquarters in order |
| 2:21.8 | to explain some full self-driving stuff and what's |
| 2:25.2 | going on with it and then show them an in-progress build of the autopilot |
| 2:30.8 | software with the new full self-driving computer aka |
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