Episode 369: The Price of FSD Is Going Up Again
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk announces another price increase for the Full Self-Driving Capability package, and I’ve got a theory about it. Plus: Giga Texas achieves a production milestone, Giga Berlin is almost ready to rock around the clock, the Tesla Semi has emerged from the shadows, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Elon Musk announces another price increase for the full self-driving capability package, |
| 0:09.2 | and I've got a theory about it. Plus, Gigatexis achieves a production milestone. |
| 0:15.0 | Gigaburlin is almost ready to rock around the clock. |
| 0:18.6 | The Tesla Semi has emerged from the shadows and more. What's happening, |
| 0:33.0 | happening, |
| 0:34.0 | what's happening? |
| 0:35.0 | What's happening? |
| 0:36.0 | What's happening, |
| 0:43.0 | happening friends? Welcome to episode |
| 0:45.0 | 369 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:48.0 | Podcast for August 28, 2022. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left looking longingly out the window, Daisy the Boxer, and boy, it has been a hectic |
| 0:58.4 | week. You ever have one of those weeks where you're just, you're awake early? You got to get up early every morning and it just |
| 1:04.1 | feels like you never quite get anything done and then you got to repeat that all |
| 1:07.4 | week long. I'm not complaining. It was just a hectic week. I am happy to be with you now on Ride the Lightning because it means |
| 1:15.7 | that it's the end of my week. This is always the last big project of my week each week. |
| 1:20.7 | So I am happy to be talking about all things Tesla with you now. |
| 1:25.0 | Before I get started I hope all of you ludicrous tier backers and hire on my |
| 1:30.3 | Patreon enjoyed this week's lightning round episode, which is the weekly bonus mini episode that I do on my |
| 1:37.3 | Patreon about EV adjacent, Tesla adjacent things. |
| 1:41.6 | In fact, this week it was about Tesla specifically. It was why I think |
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