Episode 325: Q3 Earnings Call Recap and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Tesla holds its quarterly earnings call for the record Q3 it just completed. I've got all of the highlights from the Tesla executive team as well as a recap and analysis of the big news and highlights. Plus: deliveries of the new Model X have begun, some incredibly sad news to report in the original Roadster community, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Tesla holds its quarterly earnings call for the record Q3 it just completed. |
| 0:08.4 | I've got all of the highlights from the Tesla executive team, |
| 0:11.6 | as well as a recap and analysis of the big news and |
| 0:14.5 | highlights. Plus deliveries of the new model X have begun, some incredibly |
| 0:20.0 | sad news to report in the original Roadster community and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey alongside De's the boxer and a house guest. We are dog sitting for my sister-in-law's dog |
| 0:51.0 | R-O-U-X and and they are having a ball together. |
| 0:54.8 | Right now, they're calm and chill lying on either side of me as I record. |
| 0:59.1 | We'll see if they start romping around at any point during the podcast. |
| 1:02.4 | But I've had a really nice fun week this |
| 1:04.7 | week. I got to do a business trip just my second one since, well since the whole |
| 1:09.7 | pandemic started, sure felt good to be out in the world again as a professional actually meeting people face to face and going into a game development studio to see a big new video game in action. |
| 1:22.4 | So that was fun for me, but it was also a fun week in |
| 1:26.0 | Tesla News. Unfortunately, that's going to have to wait because we have to start with something, I mean, just no there's no good way to to talk about this |
| 1:35.3 | it's just an unfortunate extremely sad story that I certainly do feel compelled to report |
| 1:41.3 | there was a fire this past week at Gruber Motors in Phoenix. Now if |
| 1:46.1 | you're not familiar with Gruber Motors they are an independent service center |
| 1:51.5 | that has taken to servicing |
| 1:53.9 | Tesla Roadsters, the original cars, and they're even doing some early model S's as |
| 1:59.1 | well, the early now out of warranty model S's. |
| 2:04.0 | There was a fire there and it destroyed 30 original |
| 2:08.1 | Tesla Roadsters. |
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