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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 282: My 2021 Tesla Predictions

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

It's time for my annual Tesla New Year's predictions of what I think will happen with each Tesla vehicle in the coming year. Plus: good news for those of you interested in the Full Self-Driving software package but not so interested in the $10k price tag, Jay Leno talks up Tesla on CNBC, the holiday software update rolls out to the fleet, and more!

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0:00.0

On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, it's time for my annual Tesla New Year's

0:05.8

predictions of what I think will happen with each Tesla vehicle in the coming year.

0:10.8

Plus, good news for those of you interested in the full self-driving

0:14.4

software package but not so interested in the $10,000 price tag, J Leno talks

0:19.6

up Tesla on CNBC, the holiday software Update rolls out to the fleet and more. The What's happening,

0:50.0

happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey here with you for the palindromatic year ending episode 282 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, for December 27th,

0:56.2

2020. Daisy the boxer is to my left and she is already passed out. It's good

1:01.0

and late here on Christmas night. It happened to fall on a Friday, which is when I typically record. I've just put my daughter to bed and now just winding the day down and it is podcast time. We were blessed with a very wonderful day today. We video

1:15.5

conference with our relatives, our in-laws, my in-laws, that we would normally do Christmas

1:20.9

with in-person, but it was everything worked out tech-wise, everybody got to see what everybody else was opening, so it was still a really fun day.

1:29.4

I hope those of you who were celebrating had a wonderful day as well. And yeah, this is the last

1:36.1

2020 episode of this podcast before we move into 2021 for episode 283 next week.

1:43.5

Again, I will be here with a regular new

1:46.3

up to the minute show.

1:47.7

I'm not going anywhere, so the regular weekly schedule

1:51.2

will hold.

1:52.2

But for this week first got some super fun

1:54.3

stuff lined up. Two quick programming notes I wanted to get to before moving into my

2:00.2

annual predictions. It is that time of the year.

2:03.7

First, the Google Hangout to welcome the new Patreon backers,

2:08.6

as well as the maximum plaid tier backers

2:11.8

who are always invited. That's going to be happening next Sunday, January 3rd at 12 p.m. Pacific

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