Episode 266: Tesla Telepathy + Randy Pobst Interview
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk is working on the ability to let you summon your Tesla with your mind, the Model S gets an option change in the Design Studio, Target and Tesla are expanding their Supercharger partnership, I've got an interview with professional race car driver Randy Pobst about his experience with a modified Model 3 at Pike's Peak and helping Tesla develop the Track Mode software, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, Elon Musk is working on the ability to let you summon your Tesla with your mind. |
| 0:08.5 | The Model S gets an option change in the design studio. |
| 0:11.5 | Target and Tesla are expanding their supercharger partnership. |
| 0:15.4 | I've got an interview with professional race car driver Randy Popes about his experience with a modified |
| 0:21.3 | Model 3 at Pike's Peak and helping Tesla develop the |
| 0:24.8 | track mode software and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey along with Daisy the boxer puppy who's |
| 0:50.9 | actually surprisingly awake working on a bone back there. |
| 0:54.0 | It's episode 266 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, this one for September 6th, 2020. |
| 1:02.0 | Plenty coming up on this week's show as I mentioned in the throw-in. 2020. edition of the Patreon exclusive bonus episode is now available for those of you |
| 1:14.6 | who support me at the appropriate bonus episode tier or higher. I wanted to give you a |
| 1:19.9 | list of the callers because if you hear your name and you aren't already |
| 1:24.8 | supporting me on Patreon at that appropriate bonus episode level I invite you to |
| 1:30.0 | email me at Tesla Podcast at gmail.com and I will be more than happy to send you a |
| 1:36.4 | download token so that you can hear the response to your question. You were kind |
| 1:41.0 | enough to send in a question. I want you to be able to hear the answer. |
| 1:44.0 | So Jeff from Portland, Gill from San Diego, Lawton from Chicago, |
| 1:48.0 | Lawton from Chicago, Howard from Maryland, Doug from Connecticut, |
| 1:52.0 | Robert, excuse me, Ron from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Todd in Cleveland, |
| 1:57.2 | Andre from Norway, Josh from Virginia, Michael from Arizona, Tony from Finland, Ben from Zurich, Switzerland, John from West Virginia, and |
| 2:06.9 | Phil from Kent, Ohio. |
| 2:09.2 | Also, I wanted to let you know I will not be doing the hotline calls this week |
| 2:13.8 | because I've got that Randy Pope's interview it's about I think 33 minutes or so |
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