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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 301: The Cybertruck (For Your Desk…) Is Coming Soon

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Tesla confirms they're working on a scale-model die-cast Cybertruck, the pedestrian warning speaker is now available to a lot of you who don't already have it, Tesla's big Santa Monica Supercharger project appears to be back on, a Buffalo doctor is raffling off a Model 3 to people who get vaccinated, and more!

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0:00.0

On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast Tesla confirms they're working on a scale model

0:06.1

Dicast cyber truck the pedestrian warning speaker is now available to a lot of you who don't already have it.

0:13.0

Tesla's big Santa Monica Supercharger Project appears to be back on.

0:17.0

A Buffalo Doctor is raffling off a model 3 to people who get vaccinated and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 301 of Ride the

0:46.9

Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast this one for May 9th 2021 the

0:51.5

snoozing Daisy the boxer is is to my left. We are back home in San Francisco after a road trip home from Arizona,

0:59.7

which I will discuss in more detail near the end of the podcast but before I do I do just want to give

1:04.7

a shout out at the top of the show to listener Chris Bates who recognized me when I passed

1:10.5

him on a Phoenix area freeway on my way out of town I know it was an accurate thing that Chris saw because he says I looked like I was

1:19.2

I was singing in the car which confirms that it was definitely me because I do that all the time

1:26.2

badly I might add which is why it only ever happens in the car but you know that tells me

1:30.9

how cool is the ride the lightning audience and how much bigger it's gotten in the last 300 episodes?

1:37.6

What are the odds that one of you listening would see me on the road in Phoenix on the one time I'm just like on my way out of town

1:46.9

so that's pretty cool. Speaking of episode 300 I want to say thank you to all of you all the kind folks who

1:54.3

emailed

1:55.2

tweeted or called in with your congratulatory words about 300 episodes. I really do

2:01.0

appreciate it and I saw a few of you message me on Patreon as well

2:04.8

so I am very grateful it's a pretty cool milestone I mean 300 shows in well I

2:11.2

guess technically 301 weeks because as I've admitted before there was there was

2:16.5

one week I took off in the first year actually like the first four months of the

2:21.4

show over it was over the holidays that first year 2015 and then I

2:26.1

just thought you know what no never again I'm not gonna I'm not gonna skip any time ever

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