Episode 321: Tesla Breaks Ground on the 'Megafactory'
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Tesla officially starts building its first "Megafactory" while shooting down rumors of the next Gigafactory. Plus: the Tesla car referral program comes to an end after six years, Tesla Insurance looks to roll out in a couple more states soon, 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 officially starts building its first mega factory while shooting down rumors of the next |
| 0:08.9 | gigafactory. Plus, the Tesla car referral program comes to an end after six years. |
| 0:15.0 | Tesla insurance looks to roll out in a couple more states soon and more. I'm going to What's happening everybody Ryan McCaffrey with my canine co-host Daisy the Boxer here with you for episode |
| 0:45.0 | 321 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:50.4 | This one for September 26th, 2021. |
| 0:53.7 | I want to start by saying thank you to everybody who emailed, |
| 0:56.4 | tweeted, Instagramed, or Patreon posted me a happy birthday message. |
| 1:01.3 | I had a fantastic day with my family on my birthday this year. |
| 1:06.0 | So very, very grateful for that. |
| 1:08.0 | Next this week, this week marks the stretch run of Q3, the third quarter for Tesla employees always a tough hectic stretch so I want to say |
| 1:19.1 | now thank you to all of you Tesla employees for your hard work and bring as many happy new Tesla owners into the fold as possible. |
| 1:28.5 | I have seen this up close. In fact, the Delivery center volunteering is back. |
| 1:35.0 | I will be at the Koma location here in the San Francisco Bay Area |
| 1:40.0 | on Thursday night, the last night of the quarter, September 30th, |
| 1:44.0 | doing my best to try and assist the Tesla team in my small way, |
| 1:48.5 | as I and others used to do, |
| 1:50.5 | over at the Fremont Delivery Center in the pre-Pandemic times. |
| 1:55.0 | And it's just so much fun. |
| 1:58.0 | I love being a small part of what basically is in my opinion, it's this was my experience at least and I've observed it with other people |
| 2:07.0 | for many new owners it's the closest thing that adults get to being a kid on Christmas morning again is when you're |
| 2:15.0 | taking delivery of your Tesla you've ordered it you've waited for it in some cases |
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