Episode 300: Q1 Earnings Call Recap, Highlights, and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Tesla holds its quarterly earnings call for the biggest quarter in its history, and as usual I've got a full recap, analysis, and highlights from the call, including what Elon Musk had to say about the switch to a vision-based Autopilot system, the media's reporting of the recent Model S accident in Texas, an update on the delayed deliveries of the new Model S and X, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla holds its quarterly earnings call for the biggest quarter in its history, |
| 0:07.3 | and as usual I've got a full recap analysis and highlights from the call, |
| 0:11.4 | including what Elon Musk had to say about the switch to a vision-based |
| 0:15.2 | autopilot system, the media's reporting of the recent Model S accident in Texas, an update on the delayed |
| 0:21.1 | deliveries of the new Model S and model X and much more. What's happening, |
| 0:45.0 | happening friends? Welcome to episode 300 of Ride the Lightning, |
| 0:48.0 | your weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcasts |
| 0:51.0 | since August of 2015. I am recording from Arizona. I came down to |
| 0:55.8 | visit my parents after we are all fully vaccinated now. Drove on down I'm going to |
| 1:00.6 | tell you about that in my Spirit of Adventure section of the show later on after on microphone than I usually have. Hopefully it's going to sound pretty good, but if it sounds different, |
| 1:15.0 | I'm sure it will sound different, I hope it's still an enjoyable |
| 1:19.0 | listening experience for you. |
| 1:20.0 | It's not as nice as my homeowner, |
| 1:22.0 | or at the very least, it's not not as expensive so we'll see if that translates to good or bad or not. |
| 1:27.0 | But real quick I want to say happy episode 300 to all of you I want to say just thank you to all of you who've been on this ride with me |
| 1:36.0 | It's just getting started there's I'm just getting rolling here. I mean I know a lot of you joined in at episode 200 when Elon Musk was on this show so to those of you |
| 1:46.0 | who fall into that category I say happy 100th episode of listening to this podcast |
| 1:51.8 | because even if you quote unquote only came in at |
| 1:55.0 | episode 200 a hundred podcast is a lot that's a hundred plus hours worth of |
| 2:00.9 | my voice and of this podcast. |
| 2:04.1 | And in all sincerity, I very much appreciate your time and attention |
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