Episode 267: Small Cybertruck Update + Westport's Model 3 Police Car
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Tesla offers a small update on the Texas Gigafactory that also includes a possible signpost about Cybertruck production. Plus, Westport, Connecticut gets a Model 3 police car, Giga Shanghai moves closer to starting its own Model Y production, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla offers a small update on the Texas Gigafactory that also includes a possible sign |
| 0:09.6 | post about cyber truck production. Plus, Westport, Connecticut gets a model 3 police car. |
| 0:16.0 | Gigas Shanghai moves closer to starting its own Model Y production and more. What's happening, friends, welcome to Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial |
| 0:45.0 | podcast. It's episode 267 for September 13th, 2020, which means this is my last show of my 30s. |
| 0:55.6 | I had you for a second there, maybe. |
| 0:56.9 | No, I am not quitting the podcast anytime soon, |
| 0:59.9 | believe me. |
| 1:00.4 | But yes, I do turn 40 in one week September 20th so it's actually next |
| 1:06.4 | week show will publish on my birthday I guess technically I'll be recording one |
| 1:11.0 | more because I record on Friday nights so 268 will actually be the last one I record in my 30s |
| 1:17.7 | but I don't quite know what to make of this birthday yet I had hoped to do something really fun and unique with my family. |
| 1:24.6 | Ideally, I'd hope to maybe travel somewhere either back to New Jersey to my |
| 1:29.6 | birthplace and where I still have some family or do something but that won't be happening |
| 1:34.6 | you know just just being at home and that's okay I'm I'm healthy I'm employed I can't |
| 1:39.2 | complain and I can always celebrate and do something fun down the road when hopefully life gets a little bit more back to normal and a little safer. |
| 1:48.0 | But anyway, as always, Daisy the Boxer is with me. |
| 1:52.0 | She's hanging out on her dog bed behind me and I'm looking forward to another fun episode with you today. |
| 1:58.0 | I wanted to say stay tuned to the very very end. I mean mean hopefully you listen to the whole thing every |
| 2:04.1 | week but if you don't if you skip the any parts of it I will just tell you that |
| 2:08.7 | this week at the very end of the show I will have my hands-on impressions of the lucid air electric |
| 2:17.5 | vehicle that is in the works and it's coming out fairly soon. It's due in spring of 2021. They had their |
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