Episode 227: Cybertruck Production Update (Good News and Bad News)
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Tesla updates the Cybertruck's production timing, and you're likely to either be happy or upset. Plus: Elon Musk gives a hint about the aerodynamics of the Cybertruck, one of California's busiest Superchargers gets a Megapack-powered boost, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast Tesla updates the cyber trucks production timing and you're likely to either be happy or upset |
| 0:10.1 | Plus Elon Musk gives a hint about the aerodynamics of the cyber truck, one of California's busiest |
| 0:16.5 | superchargers gets a megapack-powered boost and more. And the What's happening my friends? My name is Ryan McCaffrey to my left Daisy the boxer puppy and we are here well mostly me Daisy's asleep |
| 0:47.2 | We're here for ride the lightning episode two twenty seven for December 8th, 2019. It is your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. And you know, |
| 0:57.0 | coming into this episode, I get a, you know, I spend all week working on it preparing it and I went well we're bound to have a |
| 1:04.9 | quiet week after the absolute frenzy of activity in the Tesla world over the |
| 1:11.0 | past month or so and so it. It's a little on the |
| 1:13.9 | quieter side, although at least there was one significant story that broke on |
| 1:19.2 | Friday before I recorded on Friday night, which is what I'm going to kick off with here in a second but |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, it's the shows have been almost 90 minutes long the last what three four weeks |
| 1:29.5 | So probably not going to be the case this week be a little bit more of a normal hour long length or so but the nice part is there's still there's always fun stuff to talk about and this first story |
| 1:41.2 | Some of you are gonna find it real fun, but some of you are going to find it real fun, but some of you are going to be rather |
| 1:46.5 | disappointed and potentially upset. So we have an update from Tesla, a stealth update on the production timing for the cyber truck, |
| 1:56.4 | which again, I remind you, was revealed a mere three weeks ago. |
| 2:02.0 | So it has not been very long. Tesla's been taking a quarter million |
| 2:05.4 | plus pre-orders for it, you know a hundred dollar reservations. And the |
| 2:10.5 | update is this, the TriMotor version, |
| 2:14.3 | with the 500 mile range and the 0 to 60 time |
| 2:17.2 | of 2.9 seconds or less, was scheduled |
| 2:21.5 | to go into production in late 2022, |
| 2:25.0 | which was going to be about a year after |
| 2:28.0 | the single motor and dual motor versions. |
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