On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. I have a very special guest joining me

Tesla chief designer Franz von Holshousen. We talk about Tesla's design language

Insights on creating the S, the X, the 3, the Y, the semi-truck,

the roadster, what his favorite Tesla is, and a whole lot more.

Stay tuned. What's happening my friends? My name is Ryan McCaffrey and I host

Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, a weekly Tesla podcast. If this is

your first one joining it, new episodes every Sunday at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific and this week is a very

very special episode. On episode 200 I was lucky enough to celebrate that

milestone with a one-hour interview with Elon Musk and now here

episode 220. I was so fortunate to get Franz von Halshausen, the chief

designer at Tesla. I was on a business trip to Los Angeles,

where of course the Tesla Design Studio is located.

That's where Franz and his team work out of.

And this took a lot of setting up and a lot of fingers crossed and hoping it would come together and I'm so grateful that it did

So this is what you're about to hear. I'll just get right to it. This is a 37 minute interview. I of course would have loved twice that much time, but I had a hard out with Franz, but I can't complain. I'm very grateful for the time I got.

Franz is very busy obviously they've got a pickup truck that they're working on

that we're probably gonna be seeing next month if Elon's recent

tweets or anything to go by so I'm so grateful to Franz and to the Tesla Communications

team for trusting me to do this and setting this up

and making this happen.

So if you're wondering, well, why didn't you ask this? Why didn't you ask that? Believe me, I had a mile long list of questions, and when I knew I had about 37 minutes, I had to edit on the fly and just try and steer the conversation as best I could but I think

we had a really good conversation in that time.

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