Episode 273: Q3 Earnings Call Recap and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for Q3 2020 – another profitable one for Tesla. I've got my analysis of all the news plus highlights from the call by Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, and an update on pricing for the Full Self-Driving package.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for Q3 2020 another profitable one for Tesla |
| 0:09.4 | I've got my analysis of all the news plus highlights from the call by Elon Musk and the Tesla |
| 0:14.8 | executive team. Stay tuned. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 273 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:42.3 | the Tesla unofficial podcast Podcast, this one for October 25th, 2020 alongside and |
| 0:47.8 | an already sleeping Daisy the Boxer. She is not wasting any time. You're gonna want to stay awake though. This is a very |
| 0:53.8 | busy episode. Quarterly earnings call. My favorite episodes to make lots go |
| 0:59.3 | into them but I am always they always feel like fun radio show hours to me when they get done. |
| 1:05.6 | So we will cover that. |
| 1:07.4 | But first a quick housekeeping note, invitations will be going out this weekend, basically nowish, as most of you hear this, for the monthly |
| 1:16.7 | Patreon Google Hangout for those of you at the appropriate tears. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm going to aim to do that next Sunday, November 1st at 12 PM Pacific. |
| 1:26.0 | And just a quick heads up, I just learned this. |
| 1:29.0 | The clocks change that day for most of the United States, |
| 1:32.0 | so heed the calendar invites that I will be sending some of you. |
| 1:37.0 | All right, before I get started with the earnings call, I wanted to play you a clip from some friends that should make you smile, maybe even get you |
| 1:46.2 | hyped up a little bit, even though I of course just got done telling you last week, |
| 1:51.3 | kindly cautioning you not to get too hyped up for the full |
| 1:56.0 | autopilot rewrite. That said, here are my friends John and Raj from Tesla |
| 2:02.2 | Owners Club of Silicon Valley. |
| 2:04.0 | John was lucky enough to receive the early beta of the new autopilot rewrite that is expected |
| 2:10.9 | to roll out wide sometime in December towards right |
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