Episode 373: Giga Texas Milestone + Update
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Giga Texas hits a significant production milestone, and Elon Musk gives an update on Tesla’s big plans for the factory. Plus: Elon returns to Jay Leno’s Garage, Smart Summon and Autopark are about to get upgraded, 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 | Giga, Texas hits a significant production milestone and Elon Musk gives an update on |
| 0:09.4 | Tesla's big plans for the factory. Plus, Elon returns to Jay Leno's garage, Smart Summon and |
| 0:15.9 | Auto Park are about to get upgraded and more. Oh, Hello from Los Angeles. Welcome to Ride the Lightning episode 373 for September 25th, |
| 0:45.9 | 2022. It is your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. I'm Ryan McCaffrey. I have just |
| 0:52.2 | touched down in the City of Angels not more than an hour or two ago. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm in my hotel room setup and I am here getting a podcast done for you. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm recording early because I'm here on business for a thing on Friday |
| 1:06.2 | here tomorrow as I record and I'm not sure how that day will go if I'm going to end |
| 1:11.0 | up tied up in the evening at a dinner or something with the people |
| 1:13.6 | that I'm here to see so I wanted to make sure to get the podcast done early. |
| 1:17.6 | As such as usual with this if anything big happens on Friday I'll get that news and analysis out to you on next week's episode. Hey by the |
| 1:26.6 | way before I get started I had a random like shower thought this week and |
| 1:30.0 | that is this because I don't know where else in the podcast to put it, so I'm just going to mention it here at the top. |
| 1:35.0 | Tesla, in my opinion, would be missing a layup if they do not refer to Century Mode in the cyber truck as the cyber security system. |
| 1:46.1 | Come on, they got to do it, right? |
| 1:47.6 | That is just right there waiting for them to take. |
| 1:50.7 | So I will look forward to that, hopefully being the case in the cyber trucks. |
| 1:55.2 | Also of note on a more serious note a public service announcement for those |
| 1:59.8 | of you who have been waiting for this and I know a lot of you have Tesla is |
| 2:04.0 | finally selling a CCS 1 combo adapter in the US online Tesla shop. It's $250 and the product description reads as follows. |
| 2:16.8 | Expand your fast charging options with the Tesla CCS combo 1 adapter. The adapter offers charging speeds up to 250 kilowatts and can be used at third-party |
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