Episode 255: Tesla, Texas Nearing Cybertruck Gigafactory Deal
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Austin appears to be in the final stages of Gigafactory 5 negotiations with Tesla, a handful of welcome customer-requested new software features are rolling out shortly, your chance to see the Cybertruck on display right now, 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 | Austin, Texas appears to be in the final stages of Gigafactory 5 negotiations with |
| 0:08.6 | Tesla. A handful of welcome customer requested new software features are rolling out imminently, |
| 0:14.4 | your chance to see the cyber truck on display right now and more. Oh, Howdy friends welcome to Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:42.0 | Podcast episode 255 for June 25 Welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:42.6 | Episode 255 for June 21st, 2020. |
| 0:46.4 | Happy Father's Day to my fellow dads out there. |
| 0:49.4 | Hope you're having a nice day with your families. |
| 0:52.4 | There is plenty to talk about this week, but first I |
| 0:55.3 | wanted to quickly follow up on a point from last week. We now have absolute |
| 0:59.6 | confirmation that new-build model three's coming from Fremont do indeed |
| 1:05.3 | have the updated center console from the model Y. So reminder that's got the |
| 1:10.9 | built-in wireless charging pad and the USBC ports on the back of |
| 1:17.2 | the center console for the second row folks there so people have taken delivery of |
| 1:21.9 | this we have confirmation of it. |
| 1:23.9 | So from here on out, if you order a model three, |
| 1:28.1 | you will get that. |
| 1:28.8 | And obviously, if you order a model Y, |
| 1:31.1 | you will get that as well. Let's get right to it first up big news out of |
| 1:36.9 | Texas this week a Gigafactory 5 update it is looking good for Austin. So early in the week, Reuters reported that |
| 1:46.7 | quote, electric carmaker Tesla is negotiating possible incentives with a Texas |
| 1:51.4 | county that could bring a new auto assembly plant to the area near Austin |
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