Episode 218: Tesla's Record Quarter
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Tesla sets a new company record for production and deliveries in a quarter in the just-completed Q3, Gigafactory 3 hits a major milestone, Tesla files a couple of intriguing new patent applications, Model Y is spotted out in the wild, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tesla sets a new company record for production and deliveries in a quarter in the just completed |
| 0:09.7 | Q3, Gigafactory 3 hits a major milestone, Tesla files a couple of intriguing new patent applications, |
| 0:17.0 | Model Y is spotted out in the wild, and more. What's happening, my friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Happy to be joining you for the |
| 0:44.5 | 218th episode of Ride the Lightning the weekly Tesla unofficial podcast to my |
| 0:50.0 | left, my very tuckered out co-host her name is Daisy the boxer puppy and she is |
| 0:55.8 | adorable but also just sleeping so we'll just let her rest anyway it's been a |
| 1:02.1 | another busy week in the world of Tesla. |
| 1:04.8 | I did a little volunteering over at the Fremont Delivery Hub last weekend. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't, maybe I don't know if volunteering is quite the right word but just kind of you know happily |
| 1:14.2 | showing up to lend a hand to new Tesla owners as they took delivery and were getting familiar |
| 1:21.8 | with their cars I'll tell you this is the third |
| 1:24.3 | well third quarter that I've done this for because Tesla didn't didn't solicit any |
| 1:29.5 | help for this year up until this point Q1 or Q2. Q3 Q4 and now this this Q3 |
| 1:35.0 | but anyway it's the third session |
| 1:40.0 | third or third quarter I've done this for |
| 1:42.0 | and point it's I get a huge kick out of it I have a great time because I as obviously doing this podcast I love talking about all things Tesla and as I've said before you know when you're I remember my |
| 1:55.3 | delivery day in that very spot the Tesla Fremont delivery hub and and it's it's like |
| 2:00.8 | Christmas morning for adults. You are there, you are typically very happy, |
| 2:06.7 | occasionally there's maybe a little something that goes wrong and I've seen, you know, |
| 2:10.9 | it happens, you gotta try and work through something I mean my own |
| 2:13.8 | delivery was not without a bit of stress the day of with the payment system anyway you |
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