Episode 354: Elon Talks Cybertruck vs. EV Truck Rivals
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk floats the idea of suspending orders on certain Teslas while the wait list is so long. Plus: Elon’s thoughts on launching the Cybertruck after its EV pickup truck rivals, highlights and analysis from Tesla’s 2021 Impact Report, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.5 | Elon Musk floats the idea of suspending orders on certain Tesla's |
| 0:08.3 | while the wait list is so long. |
| 0:10.3 | Plus, Elon's thoughts on launching the cyber truck after its EV pickup truck rivals, |
| 0:16.0 | highlights and analysis from Tesla's 2021 Impact Report, and more. What's happening, happening, what's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for Ride the Lightning episode |
| 0:44.5 | 354 for May 15th, 2022 alongside my canine co-host Daisy the Boxer, I have had a bit of a strange week. |
| 0:54.0 | The good news, there's plenty of fun stuff to talk about on this week's podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | I've had a bit of a strange week, hopefully yours has been better than mine. |
| 1:01.0 | Daisy pulled up limping for no reason that I could |
| 1:04.6 | discern last weekend after I'd recorded the podcast so I'm getting her looked |
| 1:09.2 | at tomorrow there's a very kind listener out there who's a veterinarian saw my tweet, reached |
| 1:14.8 | out to me, exchanged a couple notes with him. |
| 1:17.1 | He suggested I get her looked at just in case. |
| 1:19.6 | So I'm hoping there's not going to be anything bad going on there. |
| 1:22.8 | She's walking better now, but I don't know. |
| 1:25.4 | She seems to be still favoring that side a little bit |
| 1:28.0 | like when she sits. |
| 1:28.8 | So keep your fingers crossed for me for some good news there. |
| 1:32.0 | I also sustained a cracked windshield on my |
| 1:35.1 | model three this week, which you know it could be worse. It could have hit the |
| 1:40.0 | body and dinged or dented the body so I'll always take glass over body but that's |
| 1:45.6 | still going to be a what I think is 500 bucks whatever my deductible is I |
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