Episode 311: FSD Monthly Subscription Arrives!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The long-awaited Full Self-Driving Capability subscription option arrives, FSD beta 9 is out in the wild with a small group of beta testers, Elon Musk gives a couple of significant Cybertruck updates as well as information about V4 Supercharging, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the long-awaited full self-driving capabilities subscription option arrives. |
| 0:09.0 | Full self-driving Beta 9 is out in the wild with a small group of beta testers. |
| 0:14.0 | Elon Musk gives a couple of significant cyber truck updates as well as information about |
| 0:19.3 | V4 supercharging and more. Welcome friends to Ride the Lighting your weekly Tesla unofficial |
| 0:45.6 | podcast for July 18th 2021. It's episode 311 alongside Daisy the |
| 0:51.4 | boxer. I'm Ryan McCaffrey and I had a great time last weekend at |
| 0:55.8 | the monthly Google Hangout for the maximum plaid to your Patreon backers so |
| 1:00.3 | thanks to all of you who were able to make that. |
| 1:03.0 | We've been having really fun chats every month about all things Tesla. |
| 1:07.0 | And my goodness, was it a busy Tesla Newsweek? |
| 1:11.0 | This week, I was planning the show. You know, I try to lock down the show like |
| 1:15.8 | Thursday night and then okay if anything pops up Friday but Friday night I was all set |
| 1:21.0 | to record. I was like all right I'm just gonna feed Daisy, give her her heart medicine |
| 1:25.8 | and then I'm gonna sit down and try and get started on this and then I get a text from a Tesla source |
| 1:31.1 | with an internal email detailing the rollout of the long anticipated full |
| 1:37.1 | self-driving monthly subscription option and then it just went public immediately |
| 1:41.8 | it's out on the on your app right now. |
| 1:44.1 | So I had to scramble, update my notes, |
| 1:47.2 | and here we go. |
| 1:47.8 | Let's just get started right away. |
| 1:50.0 | So here it is, full self-driving monthly subscription option. |
| 1:53.7 | You can find it in the upgrades section of your Tesla app |
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