Episode 348: Hertz Adds Model Y to EV Rental Fleet
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Hertz surprisingly adds Tesla’s most popular vehicle to its EV rental fleet. Plus: Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy goes on sabbatical, Pirelli introduces a new EV tire for Tesla owners, 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 | Hertz surprisingly adds Tesla's most popular vehicle to its EV rental fleet. |
| 0:08.8 | That would be the model Y. |
| 0:10.1 | Plus, Tesla AI director Andre Carpathie goes on sabbatical. |
| 0:14.6 | Pirelli introduces a new EV tire for Tesla owners and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here for episode 348 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:44.4 | your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for April 3rd 2022. |
| 0:49.4 | Daisy the boxer curled up and having a little snooze there to my left and I am feeling good. I am happy to be back here with you for another episode. |
| 0:58.0 | After I recorded last week, I took my wife on a little 10th anniversary quick trip to New York City to see the |
| 1:06.8 | Book of Mormon on Broadway which we'd both been wanting to see forever the couple of |
| 1:11.7 | times that had come through San Francisco. |
| 1:13.7 | It had just sold out instantaneously. I booked this a while ago and it all worked out. |
| 1:19.0 | And I have to say if you're a fan of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park. |
| 1:24.2 | So if you like South Park or any of their other stuff, Team America, what have you, |
| 1:29.0 | the play was hilarious. |
| 1:31.4 | The Book of Mormon play was absolutely hilarious. And I will say while I was in New York City, I saw a couple of the |
| 1:38.6 | Revel model Y ride share cars running around too. I mean, I don't remember off the top of my head how many |
| 1:44.8 | are running around Manhattan but I did see more than one which was a pleasant surprise. |
| 1:48.7 | I didn't get to ride in one but it was still good to see them. And hey, before I get going with this week's Tesla News, |
| 1:56.0 | I have a quick update to a story that I talked about last week. |
| 2:00.0 | And that is in regards to adding the $12,000 full self driving package to your order |
| 2:06.8 | in order to shorten your estimated delivery window. |
| 2:11.0 | Tesla has now changed the policy so that adding that $12,000 package will no longer |
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