Episode 257: Tesla's Surprising Q2 Deliveries
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Tesla's shutdown-slowed Q2 finishes strong and paves the way for an incredibly bright future in more ways than one. Plus: Tesla's in-house battery project might be a key ingredient in the Plaid Model S, federal tax incentives could come back for Teslas in a new federal bill proposal, 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 | Tesla is shut down slowed Q2 finishes strong and |
| 0:07.6 | paves the way for an incredibly bright future in more ways than one. |
| 0:11.9 | Plus, Tesla's in-house battery project might be a key ingredient |
| 0:16.7 | in the upcoming Plaid Model S. |
| 0:19.1 | Federal tax incentives could come back for Tesla's in a new federal bill proposal and more. Oh, Howdy friends Ryan McCaffy with you for episode 257 of Ride the |
| 0:50.0 | Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast this one for July 5th 2020 the |
| 0:53.3 | Tesla unofficial podcast, this one for July 5th, 2020, |
| 0:55.0 | which means I want to say a happy 4th of July |
| 0:57.6 | to all of my American listeners. |
| 0:59.7 | I hope you are having a safe and enjoyable weekend. I'm recording here actually on the 3rd of July and a bit early. I was lucky enough to have the day off today. So taking advantage of it by getting the podcast done and out a little early to the |
| 1:14.4 | Patreon supporters who are with me at the early access level or higher. Plus that also |
| 1:19.6 | frees up my evening but really want to see Hamilton I never saw it in as the in live as |
| 1:26.2 | the play and it's on Disney Plus now so I think the family and I were talking |
| 1:30.1 | about trying to check that out later but yeah it's good to record in the afternoon for once. |
| 1:34.8 | I've just had lunch. |
| 1:35.8 | Maybe not quite a typical 4th of July meal, |
| 1:39.7 | but I can't say it was pretty American. |
| 1:41.4 | I had, if you're from the Midwest which I am not but I have many friends who are |
| 1:46.9 | Those friends speak highly of a place called called Portillo's and they have hot dogs they have a bunch of different food and |
| 1:54.3 | one thing they have an Italian beef sandwich that just sounded incredible I |
| 1:59.6 | actually never had one so I saw a friend of mine mentioned that they do mail orders |
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