Episode 228: HBO Go and More In-Car Apps on the Way
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
HBO and a lot more in-car entertainment appear to be heading to your Tesla in the coming months, Premium Connectivity now comes with a price tag, more Cybertruck updates from Elon Musk, good news from Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, a lot more in-car entertainment |
| 0:06.0 | appears to be heading to your Tesla in the coming months. |
| 0:09.2 | Premium connectivity now comes with a price tag. |
| 0:12.1 | More cyber truck updates from Elon Musk, good news from Gigafactory |
| 0:15.8 | 3 in Shanghai and more. Oh, Hello from Rainy San Francisco, my friends. I'm Ryan McCaffrey. this is episode 228 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:45.6 | Podcast for December 15th, 2019, and a curled up, snuggling Daisy the Boxer puppy is to my left. Well it's another |
| 0:54.0 | busy week in the world of Tesla. Last weekend I had a wonderful time doing |
| 0:59.2 | some Tesla stuff with the Silicon Valley Tesla Owners Group. A really great holiday party put on there. |
| 1:06.0 | I want to thank Anne and John and the club leadership for putting together a fantastic |
| 1:11.6 | event. It was really nice to sit around and just have a good time |
| 1:17.2 | chatting with everybody, especially. |
| 1:19.4 | This is the first time that I've been at any kind of public like Tesla group thing since the |
| 1:25.0 | cyber truck unveil so that was obviously a hot topic. We did a you know people were |
| 1:29.6 | sitting at various tables at the at the hotel slash restaurant we were at and they one of the |
| 1:35.9 | cool things that the club leaders did was a little sort of trivia contest each |
| 1:39.9 | table got different Tesla like real deep dive trivia questions. I'm embarrassed to say we only |
| 1:47.1 | got two of the three correct. We didn't, we missed one. But yeah, it was a really good time. So again, you know, I've said it before if you have not participated in your local official Tesla owners club, give it a try sometime. I mean, it's a really good time to just hang out with fellow |
| 2:04.1 | enthusiasts fellow Tesla owners it is good good stuff all right let's get to |
| 2:10.4 | the Tesla news for the week there is plenty going on once again despite the fact that we're heading towards the holidays |
| 2:16.8 | Tesla still staying plenty busy |
| 2:19.7 | First up I guess I'm sort of starting and ending with some not super great news, but this first story, |
| 2:27.0 | free premium connectivity in all of the cars is coming to an end and it will now be $9.99 per month if you are not |
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