Episode 365: Interview With a Former Tesla Engineer
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
A former Tesla engineer joins me to talk about life at Tesla during a critical time in the company’s history – the run-up to the Model 3 – and how his new company could be the answer to one of the biggest concerns about owning an EV: charging at an apartment complex. After the interview, check out Orange at www.orangecharger.com
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| 0:16.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, a former Tesla engineer joins me to talk about life at Tesla during a critical time in the company's history, the run-up to the model three, and how his new company could be the answer to one of the biggest concerns about owning an EV, that being charging at an apartment complex. |
| 0:20.8 | Enjoy. Enjoy. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 365 of |
| 0:46.8 | Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast for July 31st |
| 0:50.8 | 2022 today actually a couple days ago as of the release of this podcast, marks |
| 0:59.1 | the four-year anniversary of me taking delivery of my model three which as a day I look back on |
| 1:05.6 | very fondly I had waited so long to get to that moment and I remember vividly the day was fraught with some anxiety because |
| 1:16.2 | there was an actual problem with the Tesla payment website and I couldn't |
| 1:22.0 | actually get the car get the you know money |
| 1:25.4 | moved over from the car loan and it took a and this was on a Sunday so nothing |
| 1:30.7 | was open and uh anyway I made, if you want to, |
| 1:35.0 | there's a time capsule that I made of my feelings and emotions |
| 1:39.0 | and my experience of that day. |
| 1:41.0 | If you go back, it's, I guess maybe you'd have to just search for it on |
| 1:45.3 | Tesla podcast dot Libson.com which is the hosting site of this podcast maybe |
| 1:51.0 | Google would be quicker I don't, but I think I just called it |
| 1:54.3 | my delivery day or something. If you just search you know, Ride the Lightning Tesla |
| 1:58.1 | delivery day that might pull it up. It was from July of course of 2018 as we are now at the four-year anniversary of |
| 2:06.2 | that but it's also coming up in just a couple days after this episode officially |
| 2:11.6 | publishes the seven-year anniversary of the first episode of this |
| 2:16.8 | podcast, which released on August 2nd, 2015, and boy, what a ride it has been. I have done this podcast has led me to |
| 2:28.8 | things I never would have thought possible. I got to sit down and interview Elon that's the big one back |
| 2:35.9 | on episode 200 and I know a lot of you joined me at that point in time you |
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