Episode 303: Roadster 2.0: Zero to 60mph in 1.1 Seconds!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The next-gen Roadster's SpaceX-boosted 0-60 time has been revealed, Tesla sneaks the Plaid – or maybe Plaid+ – Model S to the track to set some new records, Mattel is back with yet another remote-controlled Cybertruck toy, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast the next-gen roadsters |
| 0:04.8 | SpaceX boosted zero to 60 time has been revealed Tesla sneaks the plaid or maybe plaid |
| 0:10.5 | plus model S to the track to set some new records, Mattel is back with yet another remote controlled |
| 0:16.2 | cyber truck toy and more. Oh, What's happening, happening, what's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:39.0 | friends, |
| 0:40.0 | to Ride the Lightning, your weekly, Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:42.0 | this is episode 303. That's a... to Ride The Lightning Your Weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | This is episode 303. |
| 0:44.8 | That's a palindrome from May 23rd, 2021. |
| 0:48.9 | Daisy the boxer is to my left. |
| 0:51.1 | Now, if all goes well on Sunday as this episode publishes perhaps as some |
| 0:57.2 | of you are even listening to this if you happen to be listening on Sunday I am |
| 1:01.6 | driving down with a friend of mine to the Peterson Automotive |
| 1:05.8 | Museum in Los Angeles to check out the next generation Tesla Roadster. I'm |
| 1:11.0 | fully vaccinated. I texted him. He's fully vaccinated. He's like let's go, let's do it. |
| 1:16.2 | So I'm looking forward to that little one day road trip. We're just going down and back. |
| 1:20.3 | It's basically a long drive just to go see this thing but I am |
| 1:24.9 | really really excited to see it in fact I'm extra excited to see it now after |
| 1:31.2 | what's been revealed about it this week. So let me start right there. A couple of quick but |
| 1:37.2 | very notable updates about the next generation Roadster from Elon. First, he says that the final version will look different |
| 1:46.1 | than the prototype that is on display now at the Peterson. Responding to the |
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