Episode 242: Tesla Factory Temporarily Shutting Down
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Coronavirus is having far-reaching effects, and despite Tesla's best efforts, they are not excluded. I'll tell you about Tesla's impending temporary shutdown, Elon teasing new software features on Twitter, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | coronavirus is having far-reaching effects and despite Tesla's best efforts, |
| 0:08.4 | they are not excluded. |
| 0:10.3 | I'll tell you about Tesla's impending temporary shutdown, Elon Musk teasing new software features |
| 0:16.1 | on Twitter and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:38.0 | happening friends, welcome to the Palandramatic, |
| 0:40.7 | episode 242 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast. Dram that's some good news. Another little bit of good news is that I found a |
| 0:54.1 | Tesla shirt that I had lost. It was gone. I couldn't figure out what the heck had |
| 0:58.2 | happened to it and they don't make it anymore. I really like this one. It's just got the |
| 1:01.3 | T logo on a gray shirt on the chest big. |
| 1:04.1 | Kind of like like the Superman logo with Tesla written on the back and it had fallen |
| 1:09.7 | behind my shelves like my or my drawers they they're stacked too high and I've got these drawers built into the wall |
| 1:18.1 | in my, in our master bedroom is sort of a space saving thing here in San Francisco and I thought you know what I |
| 1:23.4 | wonder if it's possible that it fell back there and sure enough it was covered in |
| 1:27.4 | dust but it was back there so yeah I'm wearing it now feels good to wear it |
| 1:30.9 | unfortunately not a lot else feels good this week. |
| 1:34.0 | this week for everybody. I've been working from home. We are sheltered in place |
| 1:38.8 | here in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is moving its way around the country as far as these |
| 1:45.2 | shelter-in-place edicts and orders. Fortunately, this podcast has always been done |
| 1:51.9 | from my home so my plan is absolutely to continue this |
| 1:56.1 | podcast as normal if you're curious. |
| 1:59.2 | You know, my number one thing that I just want you to take away from this episode is I want you to |
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