Episode 334: Tesla's Holiday Software Update Brings Cheer

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Tesla's big holiday software update brings a new look as well as a ton of new features both practical and fun. Plus: Giga Texas gears up for its grand opening, the Tesla Semi gets another big order, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast,
0:03.5	Tesla's big holiday software update brings a new look as well as a ton of new features,
0:09.6	both practical and fun. Plus, Gigatex Texas gears up for its grand opening,
0:15.1	the Tesla Semi gets another big order and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffer here with you for episode 334 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial
0:44.8	podcast for December 26th, 2021. I hope all of you who were celebrating had a
0:51.0	Merry Christmas. I'm recording this on the morning of Christmas Eve.
0:56.0	I couldn't do it on my usual Friday night
0:58.6	because of a little family tradition.
1:01.2	We haven't quite folded our daughter into this yet because it's not quite
1:05.1	approach. She's not quite old enough, but in my family we've watched National
1:10.7	Lampoon's Christmas vacation and laughed every Christmas Eve night for years and years
1:16.7	and I've carried the tradition forward since moving to California and now being married to my wife I've dragged her into it.
1:24.3	She actually doesn't really like the movie.
1:26.9	I love it.
1:27.8	Once a year, I still crack up every time I watch it that once a year. but in any case I am hopeful that, you know, tomorrow as I record,
1:36.5	tomorrow's Christmas, I hopefully my daughter is going to enjoy her day.
1:39.9	We are extremely blessed to all be in good health and all be together and I wish all of you the very same.
1:49.0	There is plenty to talk about in the world of Tesla this week despite it being a holiday week.
1:54.4	So let me get started. First up, as promised by Elon on social media, Tesla has released its big holiday
2:02.4	software update. If you're looking for it, if you're
2:05.4	on the production branch, which is pretty much everybody, it's version 2021.44.25 and
2:11.7	it does indeed have a ton of neat stuff in it. I was talking to a friend of mine
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