Episode 225: I Rode in the Cybertruck
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The Cybertruck has been unveiled and I was lucky enough to be there to witness it. I'll give you my first-hand impressions of Tesla's latest (and most divisive) vehicle, including details of my test ride.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Ride the |
| 0:02.0 | the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | the cyber truck has been unveiled |
| 0:06.0 | and I was lucky enough to be there to witness it. |
| 0:08.0 | I'll give you my firsthand impressions of |
| 0:11.0 | Tesla's latest vehicle, including details of my test rides. |
| 0:14.5 | Stay tuned. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:36.0 | happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 225 of Ride the |
| 0:40.2 | Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. It's November 24th, 2019, and I am back here in San Francisco |
| 0:48.3 | alongside Daisy the Boxer Puppy, and I am exhausted. |
| 0:51.6 | I flew back this morning after a very long and very |
| 0:56.0 | interesting evening last night at the Cyber Truck reveal event down in |
| 1:00.3 | Hawthorne, California at the Tesla Design Studio. |
| 1:03.6 | Indeed, the Cyber Truck is here. |
| 1:05.4 | It is making news everywhere for various reasons. |
| 1:11.9 | So we'll get to all that. But first first let me tell you a little bit about the |
| 1:15.2 | event so I'd gotten there very very early because I just flew in and had nowhere else to be |
| 1:20.3 | nothing else to do that was the one place I wanted to be so got there and and got cute up and |
| 1:25.9 | uh had a good time chatting with people in line some people I knew some people I didn't |
| 1:30.5 | and when when check-in finally happened, they didn't open the doors right away, so they had kind of the outside area in front of the design studio where the superchargers normally are, just as a, you know, just a plaza effectively, and they had some Blade Runner prop cars out there. |
| 1:48.6 | They had a working Tesla coil out out sort of on the on the edge of the property where they |
| 1:56.7 | actually had these people come in these specialized suits with swords, actual |
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