Episode 376: Tesla Beats German Car Companies on Their Home Turf
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Tesla tops the sales charts in Germany, Giga Shanghai has beaten its own production record, the Cybertruck gets its first aftermarket wheel option from Unplugged Performance and Christian von Koenigsegg, 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 tops the sales charts in Germany. |
| 0:06.3 | Gigas Shanghai has beaten its own production record. |
| 0:10.1 | The Cyber Truck gets its first aftermarket wheel option from Unplugged Performance and Christian von Cunigzeg and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you alongside Daisy the Boxer it's episode 376 of Ride the Lightning the weekly Tesla |
| 0:45.5 | unofficial podcast for October 16th 2022 I want to start the show today by |
| 0:52.2 | saying thank you to everybody who wrote in or called in, |
| 0:55.7 | and there were plenty of folks, to explain why the Taiwan Model Wies that I talked about last week are not being made at Gigas Shanghai. |
| 1:05.0 | And I have to say, I guess I adhered to my own no politics on the |
| 1:13.0 | politics rule a little too closely |
| 1:14.0 | because I completely forgot about the fact that there is, |
| 1:17.0 | shall we say, some political tension |
| 1:20.0 | between Taiwan and China. |
| 1:23.0 | Many of you very kindly pointed that out to me. |
| 1:26.0 | And yes, that explains it then. |
| 1:28.0 | So that explains why the Taiwan Model-Wise are going to come from Giga Berlin. |
| 1:32.0 | Thank you to everybody who took the time to write in or call in about that. |
| 1:37.0 | In happier news, next week is going to be the quarterly earnings call and shareholder letter. |
| 1:43.5 | So as usual, if you've been listening for at least the last three months, |
| 1:47.8 | you know that I will have my usual highlight show with audio clips, a recap and an analysis of that entire |
| 1:56.1 | earnings call and the shareholder letter for you on next week's episode. In fact, |
| 2:02.0 | it's going to be up an extra day early for those of you who back me on |
| 2:06.3 | Patreon because on Friday I've got to get which is the day I would normally record I've |
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