Episode 246: Cybertruck Updates from Elon
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Elon Musk describes a few ways in which the Cybertruck has evolved since the prototype, your next Tesla might have a much nicer paint job than what's available now, I've got an interview with a Tesla body repair technician, 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 | Elon Musk describes a few ways in which the cyber truck has evolved since the prototype. |
| 0:08.8 | Your next Tesla might have a much nicer paint job than what's available now. |
| 0:13.6 | I've got an interview with a Tesla body repair technician and more. Oh, What's happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey with you alongside Daisy the Boxer puppy, and we are here for episode 246 of Ride the |
| 0:45.2 | Lightning the weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast this episode for April 19th |
| 0:50.0 | 2020 and you know before I get going I've got plenty to get to this week it's a fun |
| 0:55.0 | and exciting week of Tesla news a strange thought occurred to me this week means |
| 1:00.3 | nothing I just thought it was random. Maybe you'll find it interesting. |
| 1:04.0 | But there probably aren't any as in actual zero new model wise available for sale in the world right now. Zero. There's still model |
| 1:17.0 | three's in inventory. There's still S and X's as well. But to the best of my knowledge there should be zero model wise left |
| 1:26.4 | because they'd only just started to spin up production. |
| 1:29.6 | Demand is still very, very much outweighinging supply and of course Tesla can't build anymore right |
| 1:36.4 | now because of the shutdown so again I don't have a point to that other than that |
| 1:41.2 | I found it interesting when the thought occurred to me. |
| 1:44.0 | And I guess it is, it would be also interesting to add, it will probably never happen again ever |
| 1:51.0 | once the shutdown is over. |
| 1:52.0 | I mean, until the model Y itself is discontinued some way |
| 1:56.9 | down the road. Anyway let's get rolling with the week's Tesla news. First up some cyber truck updates from Elon. He took to |
| 2:05.8 | Twitter to talk about the cyber truck starting with the truck itself post prototype. |
| 2:11.7 | What they have been doing to the design since the prototype that we saw |
| 2:16.2 | late last year. |
| 2:18.2 | And Elon saying, quote, we've reduced the size by about 3%, the center line is more level and the lower window |
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