Episode 319: Model S Plaid Bests the 'Ring
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Tesla sets a new EV record at the legendary Nurburgring race track in Germany, battery production at Giga Nevada hits a major milestone, Giga Berlin gets much-welcomed government support, the Supercharger network is poised for more massive growth, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Tesla sets a new EV record at the legendary Nurebergring track in Germany. |
| 0:08.1 | Battery production at Giga Nevada hits a major milestone. |
| 0:11.6 | Gigaburlin gets much welcomed government support, the |
| 0:15.0 | supercharger network is poised for more massive growth and more. Oh, Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 319 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla |
| 0:44.7 | unofficial podcast for September 12th of 2021 to my left as always on the couch |
| 0:49.6 | already snoring away Daisy the boxer and first up before I get to yet another busy week of |
| 0:55.1 | Tesla News, a correction from last week. I am human. I do my best to get these things |
| 1:00.6 | correct, but I just straight screwed up last week I got one of the |
| 1:04.4 | stories wrong it was the Tesla employee count story from that Elon tweet that I |
| 1:09.9 | read you and that number that Elon posted about was for all of Elon Musk's |
| 1:16.7 | companies not just Tesla and I have no excuse for it whatsoever I went back and |
| 1:22.1 | looked at it after a couple of kind |
| 1:23.7 | listeners pointed it out and I simply misread the tweet and got that story wrong so |
| 1:29.3 | I do want to apologize for that and hopefully those mistakes are few and far between but I will |
| 1:35.5 | always admit them because why should I leave you with false information that does not do |
| 1:40.1 | anyone any good but hey on a better note before I get going this week |
| 1:45.4 | referring back here to the episode title a quick congratulations are in order to |
| 1:51.2 | the Tesla Model S Plaid development team. |
| 1:55.0 | Elon tweeted out the Model S Plaid's record setting lap time card |
| 2:00.6 | from the world famous Nurembergring track in Germany. |
| 2:05.0 | The model S plaid set an official world speed record for a production electric car at the ring, |
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