Episode 344: Tesla Is Reportedly Doubling Down in Shanghai
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Tesla has reportedly locked in its next Gigafactory site, and it’s in a familiar location. Plus: the new Model S and X have an interesting new item buried in their firmware, the NHRA has made drag strips more Plaid-friendly, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla has reportedly locked in on its next gigafactory site and it's in a familiar location. |
| 0:09.1 | Plus, the new model S and X have an interesting new item buried in their firmware. |
| 0:14.5 | The NHRA has made drag strips more plaid friendly and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:40.0 | happening, friends? What's happening, friends? Welcome to Ride the Lightning for March 6,, 2022. It's your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | Episode 344, I'm Ryan McCaffrey, to my left looking longingly out the window, Daisy the Boxer, |
| 0:52.4 | on a just terrifyingly cold, bitter, windy |
| 0:56.6 | evening here in San Francisco. |
| 0:59.4 | Thankfully we got out on a nice walk earlier today so now it is time to podcast. I will do my best |
| 1:06.2 | this week because I am pretty tired. My smoke alarm batteries in our house |
| 1:11.4 | went off, the you know the batteries died and the |
| 1:14.7 | smoke alarms went off at 2.30 in the morning last night because of course it was |
| 1:20.3 | 2.30 in the morning last night. |
| 1:22.6 | So what I've learned is now I'm going to set a reminder in my calendar |
| 1:27.2 | for something like 6 PM in, you know, |
| 1:31.1 | five and three quarter months from now to try and head it off next time |
| 1:36.0 | so that it won't happen in the middle of the night again but what can you do what |
| 1:41.0 | can you do on a happier note all sincerity, I do want to say a sincere |
| 1:45.7 | thank you to all of you. I got so many kind emails, Patreon posts, tweets, Instagram comments, etc. from all of you about my cousin Pat with your condolences. |
| 1:58.6 | I honestly wasn't expecting any of that from anyone. |
| 2:01.9 | I just, you know, I talk about the things that matter to me on this podcast. Obviously, it's a Tesla podcast, so we're generally narrowing in on all things Tesla, but sometimes real life creeps in too and this was one of those times. |
| 2:15.4 | I just needed to speak from the heart about Pat last week. |
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