Episode 250: Tesla vs. California
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tesla and Elon Musk go to battle with the state of California over the ability to reopen the Tesla Factory in Fremont, SpaceX puts the Model X to pretty cool use, Reuters gives us a sneak preview of what to expect at Tesla's Battery Day, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.2 | Tesla and Elon Musk go to battle with the state of California |
| 0:06.9 | over the ability to reopen the Tesla factory in Fremont, |
| 0:10.5 | SpaceX puts the model X to pretty cool use. |
| 0:14.0 | Reuters gives us a sneak preview of what to expect at Tesla's battery day and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for the 250th episode of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:45.2 | the weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast this one for May 17th 2020. Boy episodes, that is a fun milestone, |
| 0:56.0 | week after week, 250 weeks of this. |
| 0:59.0 | That's pretty cool. |
| 1:00.0 | I can feel a little proud of that, |
| 1:02.0 | because that's a long time. It's almost five years. The actual five year anniversary of the podcast is, I believe it's the end of July, if I remember correctly, I'd have to go back and check but in any case |
| 1:13.8 | whether you've been with me for one episode five 50 or all 250 |
| 1:19.6 | thank you so much for joining me here for the 250th episode of Ride the Lightning. |
| 1:25.0 | And I'll tell you a year ago, actually it was also just about a year ago that I had Elon Musk on. |
| 1:30.0 | That was at the end of May of last year and a year ago after that I thought well it would I |
| 1:36.7 | dreamed of well it'd be cool to have him on again for the 250th for the next big |
| 1:41.6 | milestone as like I said as I was lucky enough to do for |
| 1:45.4 | episode 200 but hey a global pandemic put the brakes on not just that idea, but a whole lot of ideas. |
| 1:54.8 | Maybe someday, we'll be able to get them back on again. |
| 1:57.9 | Anyway, I have to be honest here, I wish this was a bit more of a celebratory 250th episode. |
| 2:05.0 | I'm very, again, super proud of five years worth of podcast. |
| 2:10.0 | I love it. |
| 2:11.0 | I appreciate everything that has come as a result of this |
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