Episode 341: Next-Gen Roadster Update from Franz
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen gives a brief update on the next-gen Roadster in a new podcast interview, Hertz is starting to receive its massive Model 3 rental fleet, Panasonic is ready to fulfill a huge order for Tesla’s new 4680 battery cells, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holshousen gives a brief update on the next-gen |
| 0:08.1 | Roadster in a new podcast interview. |
| 0:10.5 | Hertz is starting to receive its massive Model 3 rental fleet. |
| 0:14.5 | Panasonic is ready to fulfill a huge order for Tesla's new 4680 battery cells and more. What's happening friends? I'm Brian McCaffrey joined as always by Daisy the |
| 0:44.1 | boxer puppy staring out the window. To my left this is episode 341 of |
| 0:49.2 | Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for February 13th, 2022. |
| 0:55.3 | And speaking of Daisy, I want to just start the |
| 0:57.5 | podcast real quick if you'll give me a moment. |
| 1:00.0 | On a personal note, it was one year ago this week that Daisy was hospitalized and I thought that she might possibly die or just not live that much longer. |
| 1:12.2 | She was in a very bad place as I came to learn |
| 1:15.7 | from the veterinary cardiologist. |
| 1:17.4 | She had, as you may remember, |
| 1:19.2 | a massively enlarged heart, |
| 1:21.4 | as well as lungs full of fluid and again I know I've given you |
| 1:26.3 | updates along the way and just I've been reflecting on this because it's one year |
| 1:30.4 | ago this week and I've been looking at her and just you know we've been |
| 1:33.5 | out taking our walks and I just genuinely can't believe that she's got a |
| 1:37.8 | clean bill of health right now if you would have told me that she would have made |
| 1:41.6 | a full recovery a year ago when all this was first |
| 1:45.4 | starting and I was getting a full picture of exactly the problem? I don't think I |
| 1:50.8 | would have believed you, especially since, as I said at the last update that we got from the cardiologist in December, |
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