Episode 324: Elon Gives Key Updates From Giga Berlin
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk drops some important new information while celebrating the about-to-open Giga Berlin at Giga Fest, Tesla co-founder JB Straubel gives a rare interview talking about the early days of Tesla, another toy Cybertruck has been announced, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Elon Musk dropped some important new information while celebrating the |
| 0:07.4 | about to open Giga Berlin at Gigafest. |
| 0:10.3 | Tesla co-founder J.B. Strabble gives a rare interview talking about the early days of |
| 0:15.1 | Tesla. Another toy cyber truck has been announced and more. Oh, Hey everybody I'm Ryan McCaffrey and the bumper sticker on the back of this podcast reads, |
| 0:44.2 | Dog is my co-pilot because Daisy the Boxer as always is to my left. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for October 17th, 2021, it's episode 324. |
| 0:57.0 | And a few things to go over before I get rolling with this week's Tesla News, |
| 1:01.0 | and there, as usual, is plenty of it. First the Q3 earnings call and |
| 1:06.2 | shareholder letter will be out next week and thus on next week's episode I'll have my usual quarterly recap, highlight clips, and analysis |
| 1:16.7 | for you on the earnings call show. |
| 1:19.1 | Those are always fun to put together. |
| 1:20.8 | So stay tuned for that on episode 325 next week. |
| 1:25.0 | Also a quick FSD beta rollout update from Elon. |
| 1:30.0 | Earlier this week he tweeted quote, |
| 1:32.0 | maybe next week, meaning for the on, earlier this week he tweeted, quote, |
| 1:32.8 | maybe next week, meaning for the 99 out of 100 |
| 1:36.8 | safety score group, and he's referring there |
| 1:39.6 | by next week to this week, the week of the 18th. He says, we'd like to get to 10.3, |
| 1:46.0 | version 10.3, before expanding the beta. And then later he did clarify saying, |
| 1:51.6 | quote, beta 10.3 releasing Friday next week to all cars with 99 out of 100 safety score. |
| 2:00.0 | So again stay tuned for that. He means the 22nd of October there. Now, I'm sure that the 99 group is a lot larger than the 100 group was. And in fact thinking about it I mean I'm no |
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