Episode 224: Gigafactory 4 Is a Go
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk makes good on his promise to announce the European Gigafactory location before the end of the year, more details emerge about the Cybertruck, what the new 1:18 scale die-cast Roadster model might teach us about the real car, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Elon Musk makes good on his promise to announce the European gigafactory location before the end of the year. |
| 0:11.0 | More details emerge about the Cyber Truck, what the new 1 18th scale |
| 0:15.7 | diecast roadster model might teach us about the real car and more. And the What's happening my friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to episode 224 of |
| 0:44.8 | Ride the Lightning the weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast. This one for November 17th |
| 0:49.7 | 2019 and that means on the next episode of this show we will all know what the |
| 0:57.2 | cyber truck looks like I'll be able to tell you all about it because thankfully |
| 1:01.0 | I am very grateful to have received an invitation to the event, which I was lucky enough to click on right away and get RSVPed and get confirmed before it seemingly very quickly went to a wait list situation. |
| 1:15.7 | So I'm in, I'm super stoked, I'm very glad I'd book travel ahead of time, |
| 1:21.0 | because once again Tesla leaving it to a little bit of the last minute |
| 1:24.7 | to send out those invites but it is going to be super fun you know and and what's |
| 1:30.6 | although what I have to remind myself is there there's no guarantee that I'm going to like the look of this thing. |
| 1:35.8 | Elon himself said, not everybody's going to like it. |
| 1:38.8 | It's not for everyone. |
| 1:39.9 | It's very out there. |
| 1:41.6 | But I'm just, you know, because it's going to be so different one way or another |
| 1:46.6 | I'm very excited to see it so I will have a first-hand report for you on next week's podcast that will hopefully include a test ride, |
| 1:57.0 | traditionally at these unveiling events. |
| 2:00.0 | When you walk in the door you get a badge, they you know they check your name off the list and and they hand you a an event badge to wear around your neck and that's got a number on it and that's your test ride number and they they cycle through people so you know |
| 2:14.4 | there it's what three four people at a time get a ride and they give you a quick you know |
| 2:19.6 | sixty second lap or so around the the street next to the design center there and then and |
| 2:27.0 | yeah you get to actually experience it so I was lucky enough to get that with the |
| 2:30.9 | three and with the why and so here we go the cyber truck is coming in |
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