Episode 308: One Million Model 3's!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tesla hits a major production milestone with the Model 3, Autopilot boss Andrej Karpathy gives a talk on vision-only Autopilot, Giga Berlin shows another sign of significant progress, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla hits a major production milestone with the model three |
| 0:06.9 | autopilot boss Andre Carpathi gives a talk on Vision-only autopilot. |
| 0:11.5 | Giga Berlin shows another sign of significant progress and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:40.1 | happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 308 of Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for June 27, 2021. the She is fine. She is at home with our awesome dog sitter. I want to say hi from San Diego. |
| 0:57.3 | We are here with my in-laws this week. It's our first actual getaway of any kind since the pandemic started so |
| 1:05.3 | thank you modern science for the miracle of vaccines that allowed us to feel |
| 1:11.8 | comfortable enough to do a little escape. |
| 1:14.0 | It's my first week not working proper, like just not actually really paying attention to work stuff |
| 1:19.8 | and taking a proper vacation in over a year. And again, I mean, I'm grateful that I have a job so I don't want to make it seem like I'm I'm oh just I've been working so hard now |
| 1:30.6 | it's I'm happy to be working but it's also nice now to just take a pause, |
| 1:35.5 | take a week and get out of the house, go somewhere different. So yeah, I'm going full zoney this week. |
| 1:41.3 | Those of you in Arizona know what that means. Although of course I haven't |
| 1:44.7 | lived in Arizona in roughly 20 years now, but still yeah. It's been fun actually to see as an Arizona |
| 1:50.7 | sports fan to see so many Arizona sports t-shirts and hats and |
| 1:56.4 | things all kinds of diamondback shirts and sun shirts and jerseys and things down |
| 2:00.2 | here especially as the sons are now knee-deep in the Western Conference finals, going |
| 2:05.1 | farther than I think most of us ever thought they would this season. We'll see where that ends up. |
| 2:09.7 | But anyway, I am happy to be here with you for, again, episode 308. |
| 2:14.8 | And a quick follow-up from last week before I get started with the news proper. |
| 2:18.7 | I did mention the $10,000 price increase on the Plaid Model S and I had mentioned how the Plaid X is still |
| 2:27.8 | 120,000, 10,000 cheaper it has not seen a matching price increase and as of when I record this |
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