Episode 236: Gigafactory 5 in Texas?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk suggests that he's considering Texas as the site of the next American Gigafactory, Tesla updates its car battery warranties, more cameras may soon be put to good use on your Tesla, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.5 | Elon Musk suggests that he's considering Texas as the site of the next American |
| 0:08.3 | Gigafactory. |
| 0:09.3 | Tesla updates its car battery warranties. |
| 0:12.1 | More cameras may be soon put to good use on |
| 0:15.0 | your Tesla and more. Oh, Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever time it is, wherever you're listening. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is episode |
| 0:44.1 | 236 of Ride the Lightning the Weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast for February 9th, 2020. To my left, still |
| 0:51.7 | wide awake, Daisy the boxer puppy boxer puppy odds are she will not be wide |
| 0:55.4 | awake by the end of this but hopefully you will be because that means if you're |
| 0:59.0 | not it means I'm not doing my job very well so yeah lots to talk about this week plenty going on. I wanted to |
| 1:04.9 | start off by doing another quick mini apology for two reasons. One because I |
| 1:10.7 | still sound bad this This cold or whatever, I feel fine, but boy, it has it lingered. |
| 1:17.1 | The congestion has lingered, so I just can't get it to go away. So if I don't quite sound my usual |
| 1:21.8 | self, I do once again apologize. |
| 1:24.1 | Hopefully next week it'll sound better. |
| 1:26.4 | Second, a more serious apology, I did get something wrong last week, |
| 1:30.9 | just wanted to issue a quick correction. So it looks like the |
| 1:34.7 | performance model Y does have the carbon fiber spoiler on the back of it. It's not |
| 1:40.9 | actually listed in the design studio anywhere alongside the rest of the performance |
| 1:46.2 | you know accoutrimon if you will but you can see it just barely with the angle you choose white paint so you can just see it on the back of the car there when you select the performance option. So my apologies for the mistake on |
| 2:04.8 | that. Next I wanted to bring up the Super Bowl real quick because I'm guessing a lot of |
| 2:09.8 | you had the same thought I did. This is not directly Tesla related, but it's tangentially |
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