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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 196: Global Good News Roundup

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Business News, News, Automotive, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Good news for Tesla fans in the UK, China, and Canada -- all for different reasons. Plus: a Tesla owner who's quite well-known in the business world holds his own in a CNBC interview, Tesla's annual shareholders meeting is dated, and 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 good news for Tesla fans in the UK China and Canada all for different reasons

0:09.2

Plus a Tesla owner who's quite well known in the business world holds his own in a

0:14.0

CNBC interview. Tesla's annual shareholders meeting is dated and more. Oh, Howdy friends? Welcome to episode 196 of Ride the Lightning the weekly

0:44.0

Tesla unofficial podcast for May 5th 2019. I'm flanked by a whining and

0:50.3

crying Daisy the Boxer puppy I think it's because I've got the door closed and she

0:54.3

can hear my wife outside working away and she's like I want to be with her but

1:00.0

it'll be a lot less distracting if you're in here Daisy. Well I have to say

1:04.6

literally anything feels like a slow newsweek compared to last week. I really

1:11.0

genuinely think looking back on it that last week was the single busiest

1:15.3

week of Tesla News that I've ever seen since I've been doing this podcast which is

1:20.5

now almost four years we're getting close to that and I'll tell you that's

1:25.6

saying something because the actual slow news weeks for Tesla are few and far

1:31.8

between on the plus side when I was doing my notes and preparing

1:36.2

for the show this week this week felt like if you've ever played baseball at

1:42.1

any level from you know little league on up

1:44.1

when you walk up to the plate when you walk up to bat after swinging your bat in the

1:49.4

on deck circle with the big donut weight on it you just felt light and easy this week

1:55.0

I was like okay only seven smaller stories no problem because that's I think that's

2:01.0

what I've got lined up to talk about this week but

2:03.7

yeah plenty to talk about so let's get started and first up is excellent news

2:10.4

for the UK as those of you who are in the UK have probably already

2:15.8

heard and likely been emailed about and many of you already placed your order yes

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