Episode 317: Tesla's App Redesign Rocks!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Tesla gives its smartphone app a gorgeous and long-awaited redesign. Plus: the Cybertruck gets a massive advertisement on the side of Giga Texas, a programming genius who also happens to be a Tesla owner is working on optimizing the UI on the older Model S's and X's, 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 gives its smartphone app a gorgeous and long-awaited redesign. |
| 0:07.5 | Plus, the cyber truck gets a massive advertisement on the side of Gigatexis, a programming genius who also happens to be a Tesla |
| 0:15.8 | owner is working on optimizing the UI on the older S-S-S and X's and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey alongside Daisy the Boxer with you here for |
| 0:44.6 | episode 317 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, for August 29, |
| 0:51.2 | 2021 on a warm and very unfortunately smoky air day here in San Francisco, |
| 0:59.0 | I've taken out our air purifiers and sadly the wildfire situation in the neighboring areas |
| 1:05.6 | continues to progress and wish just all the best of those affected because it is |
| 1:11.4 | it is scary on all too regular basis now. |
| 1:15.5 | But let's talk Tesla because that's what I'm here for and there is plenty of fun |
| 1:20.1 | stuff to talk about starting with the newly redesigned Tesla app. |
| 1:26.4 | Now all of you can get it. |
| 1:28.0 | Just go to the App Store, if you're an iPhone user or the Google Play Store, |
| 1:31.7 | if you have an Android and manually update your version |
| 1:35.3 | if your smartphone hasn't already done it for you automatically and I have to say |
| 1:40.7 | taking a look at it, poking around it. |
| 1:43.0 | It's very clean. |
| 1:44.4 | I like that. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm a big fan of just minimalism and cleanliness, |
| 1:48.4 | nothing overly busy in the UI in the app. |
| 1:52.4 | Now for you multi-Tessa households, |
| 1:55.0 | which I've talked about over time, |
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