Episode 231: Gigafactory 3's Milestone + Stardew Valley Interview
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Gigafactory 3 gets rolling, we've got another new Tesla battery patent to learn from and speculate about, an interview with the creator of the newest game to come to the Teslas, Stardew Valley, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode, a ride the lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the first episode of 2020, |
| 0:05.4 | Gigafactory 3 gets rolling, we've got another new Tesla battery patent to learn from and speculate about, |
| 0:11.2 | an interview with the creator of the newest game to come to the |
| 0:14.1 | Tesla's Star Dew Valley and more. Oh, Happy New Year |
| 0:37.0 | Year friends, welcome to episode 231 of Ride the Lightning, the weekly Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:41.8 | Podcast. This one's for January 5th, 2020. We are |
| 0:45.0 | into a brand new year. I am alongside Daisy the Boxer puppy and this is going to be |
| 0:50.8 | a little bit busier of a week than I thought. I'd be, I thought it would be really |
| 0:54.8 | dead as far as Tesla News goes. But there was still a few things to talk about. I hope everybody |
| 1:01.0 | had a safe, happy healthy new year I did have those things |
| 1:06.4 | although getting to this point was a little harrowing I'll tell you real quick |
| 1:10.4 | since there are only a few Tesla stories to talk about this week, I want to tell you |
| 1:14.4 | about my drive from San Francisco to Phoenix first. |
| 1:18.9 | So first and foremost, thankfully I did get here unharmed, so did my occupants and so did the car itself |
| 1:25.7 | but my goodness the day was awful. So the first leg went tremendously. |
| 1:32.0 | Did a hundred percent charge on the car, set out from my home at about 8.30 or so |
| 1:37.1 | a.m. and then made for Kettleman City as the first stop, which Kettleman City if you've never been there as I've talked |
| 1:44.4 | about it on the podcast before it is just an absolutely wonderful charging location |
| 1:49.2 | that's the big one with 40 stalls V2, and a mix of now V3s in there. |
| 1:56.0 | And then there's the private lounge. |
| 1:57.6 | You need the key code to get in, which the car displays for you |
| 2:00.6 | as you're getting close. |
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