Episode 295: Cybertruck Won't Have Door Handles?!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The new Model S finally starts to get out into the wild, and we now know more about Tesla's next-gen "Smart Shifter" feature. Plus: I reminisce about the five-year anniversary of the Model 3's unveiling, Elon Musk says something interesting about the Cybertruck's doors, you can now purchase a Tesla using Bitcoin, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, the new model S finally starts to get out into the wild and we now know more about Tesla's next-gen smart shifter feature. |
| 0:10.6 | Plus, I reminisce about the five-year anniversary of the model three's |
| 0:15.1 | unveiling. Elon Musk says something interesting about Cybertrucks |
| 0:19.2 | doors. You can now purchase a Tesla using Bitcoin and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for the March 28th episode of |
| 0:48.4 | Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast it's episode 295 to my left, Daisy the Boxer who is doing one of her favorite things, which is looking |
| 0:56.4 | longingly out the window at anything that goes by. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, it's yet another busy week of Tesla News. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm looking forward to going through all of it with you. |
| 1:05.0 | First, a quick public service announcement. |
| 1:07.8 | The monthly Google Hangout for my Patreon backers will be next Sunday, April 4th. |
| 1:14.2 | At noon Pacific, that's 3 PM Eastern. |
| 1:17.2 | Invites should be going out right about now. |
| 1:19.5 | You probably have it in your inbox now |
| 1:21.5 | if you're one of the folks that'll be able to join me for that. |
| 1:24.6 | It's for both new backers as a one-time sort of welcome slash thank you invitation and then |
| 1:30.4 | the maximum plaid-tier folks get invited every month. |
| 1:34.1 | I am looking forward to this once again. |
| 1:36.1 | I tell you these have been super fun. |
| 1:38.0 | They've been so fun in fact that the last one last month went for something like an hour and 20 minutes |
| 1:44.8 | when it was scheduled for an hour and that's actually a failing of on my part I |
| 1:49.4 | need to be more respectful of people's time on this but I am having a great time I look forward to seeing |
| 1:55.1 | all of you in there or many of you hopefully. Also this week we have the end of |
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