Episode 386: Is a Giga Mexico Announcement Imminent?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Mexico emerges as a new frontrunner to get Tesla’s next Gigafactory, Tesla launches Tesla Electric in Texas, the first pieces of the 9,000-ton Gigapress needed to build the Cybertruck have arrived at Giga Texas, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, Mexico emerges as a new |
| 0:06.0 | front-runner to get Tesla's next gigafactory. Tesla launches Tesla Electric in Texas, the first pieces of the 9,000 ton |
| 0:15.3 | gigapress needed to build the cyber truck have arrived at giga Texas and more. The What's happening, |
| 0:33.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:40.0 | what's happening friends, I'm Brian McCaffrey here with you |
| 0:42.0 | for episode 386 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:45.3 | your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast Christmas Day edition. I'm not recording it then, of course, that's |
| 0:51.6 | when the show goes out wide. I can't imagine too many of you |
| 0:54.8 | are going to be listening to it on Christmas day. You probably have other plans and that's perfectly |
| 0:59.5 | all right. You'll get to it when you get to it, So whenever you've chosen to listen to this hello and I hope you're having a good holiday season Daisy the boxer is |
| 1:08.7 | Napping to my left on the couch. Zilina the future service dog hanging out in her pen just outside these doors here. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm recording early this week. It is Friday at 1130 AM. I'm recording like 12 hours earlier than I normally do. I'm very |
| 1:26.4 | fortunate to have the day off today. So if by some chance some big Tesla news breaks later today or tomorrow aka Christmas Eve, |
| 1:37.0 | well I'll just discuss it on next week's podcast. |
| 1:41.0 | And speaking of next week's episode, that one is going to be my annual Tesla predictions |
| 1:46.5 | episode where I make my predictions for each of the vehicles |
| 1:51.0 | in Tesla's fleet and the company at large so that's always the |
| 1:52.9 | and company at large. So that's always a fun one to put together. I hope you will look |
| 1:57.9 | forward to that. But first, some good news for this week, the remainder, what little remains of |
| 2:05.4 | 2022, Tesla has upped the ante again on trying to get people to take delivery of their model three and model why |
| 2:15.0 | before the Inflation Reduction Act tax credit kicks in in 2023. |
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