Episode 372: Tesla to Refine its Own Lithium + Radar Returns for HW4?

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Tesla continues on its relentless path of vertical integration by planning a potential lithium refinery in Texas. Plus: Tesla is finally happy with its battery supply situation, radar might be making a return in the next version of Autopilot hardware, 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	Tesla continues on its relentless path of vertical integration by planning a potential
0:08.8	lithium refinery in Texas. Plus, Tesla is finally happy with its battery supply situation,
0:15.8	radar might be making a return in the next version of autopilot hardware and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode
0:43.7	372 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast, September
0:49.1	18th, 2022. This will be my last podcast as a 41 year old. I will turn 42 this coming week. So hopefully I'll make this
0:59.3	podcast a good one, but I am happy to be back with you. Hey let me start with a couple of little
1:04.7	bits of bite-sized news before I get going. First I noticed this when I was on
1:10.0	Tesla's website this week and that is this is Tesla's return policy back well I mean it's
1:16.4	definitely there is a policy right now and my question is has it been there and I've
1:22.0	missed it?
1:22.7	But I think this is new.
1:25.2	This is a newly returned policy, though modified.
1:28.6	So remember that Tesla used to have a seven day or or 1,000-mile return policy. But then they unceremoniously got
1:38.8	rid of it, what, a year or two ago? So maybe this isn't new, but but I when I was on the Tesla site this week
1:45.7	right on the home page Tesla.com I noticed that the at the very bottom of each of the cars on the home page S3 x y
1:56.2	although I guess three is on top that doesn't matter but in the bottom left in small print
2:01.2	this is on desktop by the way, it says if you haven't test
2:05.5	driven the car you can return it within three days of delivery. So that might be new.
2:13.0	Again, my apologies if it's not, if that's been there and I've only just now noticed it,
2:19.0	but I believe that is either brand new or relatively new, the return of the return policy.
2:26.8	Now, if it's like the old return policy at all, if you were to actually utilize this
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