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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 298: Cybertruck Visits Giga Texas

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Automotive, News, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The Cybertruck visits Giga Texas – the very place that will soon build it, Elon Musk gives an update on the availability of the FSD beta download button AND an explanation of why they're switching to a vision-only system, Tesla sets a date for its next quarterly earnings call, and more!

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0:00.0

On this week's episode, a ride the lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the cyber truck visits the very place that will soon build it.

0:07.4

Elon Musk gives an update on the availability of the full self-driving beta download button and an explanation of why they're switching

0:14.8

to a vision-only system, Tesla sets a date for its next quarterly earnings call and more. What's happening, Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 298 of Ride the Lightning for April 18th, 2021 and I wanted to start real quick with an update on Daisy.

0:52.0

She had her checkup today, another scan of her

0:55.4

chest as well as an echo cardiogram of her heart and some blood work to make sure that the medication

1:01.3

is being tolerated by her system okay and thankfully I have

1:05.1

good news to report she is doing well she's far from out of the woods yet but the good

1:11.3

news is her left atrium which I'm told by the veterinary

1:15.7

cardiologist is kind of the critical one where when that goes that's sort of the

1:20.7

last stage of the heart disease. That has gotten significantly

1:27.4

smaller. She now classifies it as only moderately enlarged. So that is some really good progress. It has come a long way.

1:36.0

So that's good news. Meanwhile her left ventricle still severely enlarged,

1:42.0

still abnormal, but it has improved.

1:45.0

It has walked back from what she seemed to indicate

1:48.0

was kind of the precipice.

1:50.0

So we're, you know, still, uh, again, not out of the woods there but moving in the right

1:54.4

direction and then her heart muscle kind of a similar thing it's still she said

2:00.6

severely abnormal but it's improved.

2:04.4

So that is good.

2:06.2

Hopefully the diet is really the key to this,

2:09.4

and this was a diet-induced thing,

2:11.0

but she told me she's not ready to make that call yet till at least six months.

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