Episode 221: Q3 Earnings Call Highlights and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2019
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for Q3 and the news is ALL GOOD. I've got all the big announcements (like the one about Model Y!) as well as analysis, clips from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, some notable updates to Model 3, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, awry the lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for Q3 and the news is all good. |
| 0:08.9 | I've got all the big announcements as well as analysis, clips from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team |
| 0:14.6 | some notable updates to Model 3 and more stay tuned. Oh, What's happening my friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left Daisy the Boxer Puppy and we are here for Ride the Lightning the weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for October 27th 2019 episode 221. 2021. |
| 0:53.0 | What a big week in the world of Tesla that it was. |
| 0:56.0 | What a big week it was for me personally doing this last week. |
| 1:01.0 | I was so grateful to get to sit down and interview Franz von Holeshausen, the chief designer of Tesla. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you all so much for your kind words about the interview. |
| 1:12.0 | That was on my Tesla bucket list was interview |
| 1:15.8 | Franz I've I can now say it's just so cool like I got to sit down with the person |
| 1:22.3 | primarily responsible for designing my car. |
| 1:26.2 | And that's, I've never been able to do that with any car I've ever owned before. |
| 1:31.0 | So that was super fun. And hey, by the way, if last week happened to be your first episode |
| 1:36.2 | and you're giving this podcast another try, thank you very much for coming back and I hope you |
| 1:41.1 | enjoy it. This week's episode will be another big one, not as far as |
| 1:45.2 | Celebrity Star Power, but in terms of the week of Tesla News, it's been a massive week of news pretty well all related to the earnings call the Q3 |
| 1:57.4 | results. It was all good. Tesla's profitable. We'll talk about that in a few minutes |
| 2:01.5 | but just one more quick note on the Franz interview. |
| 2:05.3 | You know, I'm not sure if it quite came through in the background, but there was some major |
| 2:10.8 | construction going on at the design studio in Los Angeles. I was really worried |
| 2:16.9 | sitting in the lobby as I was waiting for Franz. I was like, boy, it was really loud, just banging and hammering and all kinds of stuff going on. |
| 2:26.0 | You know, the thought did occur to me, by the way, and I don't know, it sounded like they were |
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