Episode 232: Tesla's (New) Record Quarter + Cybertruck's First Award
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Tesla's Q4 production and delivery numbers are in, and they're all good. Plus: Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai is officially pumping out Model 3's, an update on the Bargersville Indiana Model 3 police cruiser, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla's Q4 production and delivery numbers are in and they're all good. |
| 0:08.8 | Plus Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai is officially pumping out model 3's, an update on the Bargersville, Indiana |
| 0:16.0 | Model 3 police cruiser and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffy with you alongside Daisy the Boxer Puppy. Welcome to episode |
| 0:43.5 | 232, that's a palindrome, of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and official |
| 0:48.0 | podcast. This one's for January 12th, 2020 and I have to tell you that thankfully the travel god smiled upon me on my return trip from Phoenix back to San Francisco. |
| 1:01.0 | It went fantastically, really couldn't have been much smoother it was about |
| 1:05.6 | 14 hours and 20 minutes or so door to door and thinking about it in hindsight I |
| 1:11.2 | think I could have done it in a bit less but I didn't |
| 1:15.1 | rush at the charging stops and you know I had my daughter and and had Daisy with me |
| 1:19.8 | so you know that they needed breaks so I just really wasn't rushing much at the |
| 1:24.0 | charging stops and and I was allowing a little extra juice just to make sure that |
| 1:28.5 | range anxiety wasn't a problem although I have to say now having done that San Francisco to Phoenix |
| 1:34.8 | Drive twice last year and now this well I guess two years ago and then last year I have |
| 1:41.3 | to say the the in-car navigation system seems to measure pretty accurately. |
| 1:48.0 | Like when it tells you that you're going to make it to the next supercharger with 11% charge. I've never been more than a couple of percent |
| 1:58.1 | off from that and in some cases it ends up, it'll be a couple percent off in my favor like I'll end up with 13% when I arrived |
| 2:06.8 | there instead of 11% so all in all it's it's a pretty trustworthy system I think and as I get more comfortable road tripping with it, |
| 2:16.1 | that'll only make me more comfortable with, you know, pushing it a little closer. |
| 2:20.5 | Like, meaning, you know, charging less at the superchargers and just moving right |
| 2:25.9 | on to my next stop but good run I didn't hit much traffic at all in the greater |
| 2:31.3 | Los Angeles area which is always a big |
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