Episode 263: Tesla Readying Next-Gen Autopilot
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Tesla's Autopilot rewrite is coming along nicely, Tesla stock becomes more affordable (but for a great reason), Elon Musk possibly hints at what Tesla might show off at next month's Battery Day, a Model 3 Performance wins a rally race in Western Australia, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.3 | Tesla's autopilot rewrite is coming along nicely. |
| 0:06.7 | Tesla's stock becomes more affordable, but for a great reason. |
| 0:10.4 | Elon Musk possibly hints at what Tesla might show off at next month's Battery Day, |
| 0:15.4 | a Model 3 performance wins a rally race in Western Australia, and more. The What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 263 of Ride the Lightning for August 16th, 2020, |
| 0:47.0 | and it is a rare San Francisco scorcher, the mid-90s, temperatures here today in San Francisco, which almost never happens. |
| 0:57.2 | I mean, it's maybe seriously once or twice a year. |
| 1:00.6 | Does it actually touch the 90s here in San Francisco proper? |
| 1:05.0 | So, roasting away, figured I might as well get the podcast done a little bit early in what would normally be my dog walking time because it's too darn hot for poor Daisy. |
| 1:15.0 | She is a dog I have noticed is very temperature sensitive. |
| 1:18.6 | If it gets basically above 70s, you know, if it gets into the 80s she is gets pretty tuckered out real quick so I do not |
| 1:26.8 | Want to subject her to 94 degrees which is what it still is right now at like 7 p.m. as I sit down to record here but anyway |
| 1:36.0 | lots to talk about this week but before I do I wanted to mention a quick thing |
| 1:41.2 | from last week I was talking about range last week and how by the end of next year |
| 1:47.6 | we might have the first ever production 500 mile range electric vehicle in the form of either the cyber truck or |
| 1:57.2 | the Tesla semi whichever happens to hit the market first. |
| 2:00.9 | Well just as an interesting follow-up to that this week |
| 2:04.2 | Lucid, the EV startup that's building a factory in Casa-grand Arizona, claims |
| 2:10.9 | that they will end up that their're lucid air, which is a luxury sedan, |
| 2:16.0 | that they'll get an EPA rating for their range of 517 miles. So this is based off of their own testing, it's internal, it's not |
| 2:26.8 | official from the EPA, but I'll tell you if they're able to get that |
| 2:31.3 | factory up and get that car built and into production and they do end up |
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