Episode 333: Tesla Semi Production (Reportedly) Underway!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
A new report – with some drone-footage evidence to back it up – suggests that the Tesla Semi truck has entered initial limited production! Plus: Model 3 impresses another law enforcement agency as a police car, Tesla adds more crazy merch to their online shop, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. A new report with some drone footage evidence to back it up suggests that the Tesla semi truck has entered initial limited production. |
| 0:12.2 | Plus, Model 3 impresses another. entered initial limited production. |
| 0:12.6 | Plus, model three impresses another law enforcement agency |
| 0:16.5 | as a police car. |
| 0:17.8 | Tesla adds more crazy merch to their online shop and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you alongside Daisy the Boxer |
| 0:45.9 | aka the source of the best news in my life this week I will tell you about that |
| 0:50.5 | towards the end of the show. Here with you for episode 333, that would be like an ultimate |
| 0:57.8 | palindrome. I don't know, is there an official term for that? It's definitely a palindrome, |
| 1:02.3 | same number forwards and backwards. I don't know if there's |
| 1:04.8 | an official term for when it's the exact same three numbers. Forwards or backwards. But it is episode |
| 1:12.0 | 333 for December 19th, 2021. |
| 1:17.0 | I am recording early this week late Thursday night |
| 1:21.0 | due to an event that I have coming up on Friday night. |
| 1:25.0 | So as always, if I miss anything big on Friday, I will recap and analyze it for you |
| 1:31.0 | on next week's episode, but I would always rather do the show a little early |
| 1:34.5 | than a little late. I want to make sure those of you who are kind enough to back me on |
| 1:38.6 | Patreon get a little bonus out of that rather than suffer by getting your early access later than you would, rather you have it earlier. |
| 1:47.0 | Before I get going this week too, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who tweeted or emailed me and it was a bunch of you |
| 1:55.1 | about my slacker issues that I was complaining about slacker being flaky, being unreliable, |
| 2:02.1 | just holding up, you know, not buffering entire songs and not |
| 2:06.3 | loading new songs at all, it sounds like I am very much not the only one, which |
| 2:12.4 | still doesn't fix the situation but at least makes me feel better |
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