Episode 302: Tesla Demand Is to the Moon!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Tesla reportedly sells out production for Q2 before we're even halfway through the quarter. Plus: Tesla buys another plot of land adjacent to Giga Texas, but what for? Also, we've got a new update on city-streets FSD beta 9 timing from Elon Musk, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla reportedly sells out production for all of Q2 |
| 0:07.4 | before we're even halfway through the quarter. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, Tesla buys another plot of land adjacent to gig of Texas, but what for? |
| 0:15.2 | Also, we've got a new update on the City Street's full-self driving Beta 9 timing from Elon, and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you alongside Daisy the boxer who is behind me |
| 0:46.3 | currently tearing the guts out of a out of a dog boy she does from time to time. |
| 0:51.6 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla |
| 0:53.8 | unofficial podcast. This is episode 302 for May 16th, 2021. And I want to start |
| 1:00.6 | with Elon Musk on Saturday Night Live. |
| 1:03.2 | Some of you may have already watched it. |
| 1:05.1 | As I said last week, this is a Tesla podcast |
| 1:08.5 | and not an Elon Musk podcast specifically, |
| 1:11.3 | but how often does the CEO of your favorite car company host Saturday |
| 1:17.0 | Night Live? |
| 1:18.0 | I would imagine that this is the first time that anyone can ever say that. |
| 1:22.0 | So I thought I should at least just play you one |
| 1:25.2 | clip. Now I wasn't sure if I was going to watch it live myself or maybe just |
| 1:30.0 | catch the sketches on YouTube later but I did end up watching it as it aired last |
| 1:35.2 | Saturday night and honestly I'll be honest with you I thought he did okay for |
| 1:39.4 | somebody who is not a trained performer, not a trained actor, |
| 1:42.9 | not a trained comedian. |
| 1:44.7 | And that's, I'll tell you, |
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