Episode 274: Interesting Cybertruck Rumors...
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
A source sends me some rather interesting rumors about the Cybertruck as it progresses through development – with a range rumor in particular having massive implications if it's true. Plus: the Model 3 continues to get more efficient each model year, European Model Y buyers might not have to wait quite as long as they thought to get their cars, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, a source sends me some rather |
| 0:05.2 | interesting rumors about the cyber truck as it progresses through development, |
| 0:09.2 | with the range rumor in particular having massive implications if it's true. |
| 0:14.0 | Plus, the model three continues to get more efficient each model year. |
| 0:18.0 | European model Y buyers might not have to wait quite as long as they thought to get their cars and more. What's happening, |
| 0:45.0 | happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with Daisy the Boxer joining you for episode 274 of |
| 0:50.2 | Ride the Lightning for November 1st, 2020. We are officially a third of the way into a big |
| 0:56.9 | Q4 for Tesla. And a quick thought before I get going this week about the city streets full self-driving |
| 1:05.0 | autopilot beta that has been going around to select members of the community for the |
| 1:09.4 | last week or so. I don't have it myself, quite frankly, San Francisco will be an acid test for that software |
| 1:19.4 | whenever I and everybody else with a Tesla in San Francisco gets it later on |
| 1:24.4 | it towards the end of the year but and by the way I don't say that with any |
| 1:29.0 | pride driving here is nuts and I know every city's got there weird unique things but boy |
| 1:36.6 | San Francisco with all the hills and the the two-way streets that aren't |
| 1:41.4 | actually with cars parked on the side aren't actually wide enough with those parked cars for two-way traffic and all kinds of just wild stuff. |
| 1:50.6 | It will really be interesting to see how the full self-driving software handles |
| 1:56.4 | the streets of San Francisco. But anyway, my thought this week was this. Is this city streets full self-driving update the biggest single |
| 2:08.4 | leap forward that autopilot has ever taken in other words words, just in one update, is this the biggest single |
| 2:15.5 | leap forward that we've ever seen from autopilot? And based on the videos I've been seeing, I think there's a good chance the answer to that is yes. |
| 2:25.1 | I mean, let's think about it for a second. |
| 2:27.3 | I would argue that it's a bigger step forward than navigate on autopilot was, although, hey, taking nothing away, navigate on autopilot |
| 2:36.0 | was pretty cool when it dropped. In fact, I still used it every day, or at least every time I drive. |
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