Episode 285: Tesla: Where 5-Star Safety Is S3XY
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The Model Y becomes the latest Tesla to ace its crash test in every category, a FUD-fueled attempt to drag Tesla's reputation and stock price down comes up empty, more Tesla models finally get a heated steering wheel, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast the model why becomes the latest Tesla to ace its crash test in every category |
| 0:08.0 | A fud fueled attempt to drag Tesla's reputation and stock price down comes up empty more Tesla's reputation and stock price down comes up empty, more Tesla models finally get a heated |
| 0:16.5 | steering wheel and more. Oh, Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 285 of Ride the Lightning the weekly Tesla unofficial |
| 0:44.8 | podcast for January 17th, 2021. Daisy the Boxer hanging out on the couch to my |
| 0:50.4 | left and it is yet another busy week of Tesla news the year off to a |
| 0:54.4 | quick start the production line for the model S and the model X just |
| 0:59.3 | everybody's on pins and needles in the community wondering is it finally going to be the |
| 1:04.4 | refresh is this it a word as of this recording on Friday the 15th is that the |
| 1:11.4 | production lines have not restarted yet as they were scheduled to on |
| 1:15.5 | Monday of this week so whether that's more training going on more tooling more what |
| 1:21.1 | have you or all of the above not sure so we'll see what happens one thing I I would |
| 1:27.3 | surmise is if there's going to be a refresh of one or both of these cars, |
| 1:35.0 | something that I look at in history with Tesla is the earnings call, |
| 1:39.5 | which by the way is going to be announced this week. |
| 1:42.0 | It's going to be on Wednesday, January 27th. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, okay, that's coming up in two shows from now. It's less than two weeks from when I'm recording this. |
| 1:51.0 | It'll be two weeks from when you're hearing this as far as covering |
| 1:55.1 | it on this podcast. |
| 1:56.8 | So I'll have my usual recap and analysis then, stay tuned for that, that'll be episode |
| 2:00.9 | 287. But if you think back, Tesla does like to have good news and new things, |
| 2:08.8 | announcements as part of earnings calls to help, you know, have the analysis and the, you know, the stock and everything, |
| 2:16.6 | to help there be good news heading into an earnings report. I mean, they've had price drops in earnings call weeks they've had new autopilot software |
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