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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 254: Tesla Semi and Model Y Go Full Speed Ahead

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Business News, News, Automotive, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Two leaked emails from Elon Musk detail the present-day focus on the Model Y and the imminent focus on the Tesla Semi. Plus: Tesla releases its annual environmental impact report, and more!

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's episode to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, two leaked emails from Elon Musk detailed the present day focus on the model Y and the imminent focus on the Tesla Semi.

0:13.0

Plus, Tesla releases its annual environment impact report and more. Oh, What's happening,

0:35.0

happening, friends? Welcome to episode 254 of Ride the Lightning

0:42.0

for June 14th, 2020.

0:44.0

Daisy the Boxer Puppies, still awake for now,

0:46.0

looking out the window to my left.

0:48.0

Well, I have to say, we're in mid-June now.

0:50.0

Normally, we'd have already had the shareholder meeting. That would have happened

0:55.1

either this week or last week. Typically it's that, it's early in June, but obviously

1:00.8

everything is, uh, is thrown up in the air and changed with regard to of course

1:07.7

the pandemic and the terrible situation that has just wreaked havoc across everything

1:12.2

so pushing back a Tesla shareholder

1:14.7

meeting has been the least of the inconveniences but at least we do have that

1:19.4

coming up in about what two three weeks now.

1:22.8

Also I was thinking this week, theoretically,

1:26.2

Battery Day should be coming up soonish

1:30.0

according to Elon's last publicly given time frame on that.

1:34.7

So I hope that happens soon, even if, like he said, it's just a

1:40.1

live stream part one before they can do a part two in-person event at some point a little later in the year.

1:49.0

All right, let me get to the news this week. There is plenty to cover, as usual with Tesla.

1:56.0

I'd like to say, welcome to Leaked Elon Email Week

2:00.2

here on Ride the Lightning.

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