Episode 204: Tesla's Skunkworks Battery Project
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Tesla makes a big push at the end of the quarter, CNBC reports on Tesla's secret skunkworks battery project, Top Gear reviews the Performance Model 3, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla makes a big push at the end of the quarter. |
| 0:06.5 | CNBC reports on Tesla's Secret Skunk Works Battery Project, |
| 0:11.5 | Top Gear reviews the Performance Model 3 and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:41.0 | happening, friends, welcome to episode 204 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast. This one's for June 30th, 2019. I'm Ryan McCaffray to my left, a |
| 0:46.7 | relaxing Daisy the Boxer puppy as she settles in and will no doubt pass out very soon here. |
| 0:53.2 | It's late on Friday night, as I record, |
| 0:56.4 | I typically record super late Friday nights |
| 0:58.4 | after the rest of the family's gone to bed. |
| 1:00.6 | It has been a not super great week for me. |
| 1:03.0 | I had a stomach bug this week, which I got after my daughter and then wife had, |
| 1:07.0 | so it just made it just tore its way through the family. |
| 1:10.0 | Still kind of feeling a bit of the after effects of that, still trying to get through it. So bear with me this week, but what are you going to do? All you can do is just soldier on. But anyway, in happier news news I wanted to start the show by |
| 1:25.3 | wishing a very happy 48th birthday to Elon Musk his birthday is today as I |
| 1:31.9 | record Friday June 28th you know his birthday |
| 1:35.0 | working, |
| 1:39.0 | working, like literally all day and night |
| 1:42.0 | at the Fremont factory during the production hell that was the |
| 1:46.0 | model three ramp so what's Elon doing this year well someone on Twitter asked |
| 1:51.1 | him and he said quote working on Tesla global logistics |
| 1:55.1 | that's Elon for you I guess but you know I have to say I help can't help but feel a |
| 2:00.9 | little bit bad for him you know I hope he at least gets to spend some of today. |
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