Episode 387: My 2023 Tesla Predictions

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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I make my annual New Year’s predictions for all things Tesla as 2023 gets started, including predictions on Cybertruck, Model 3, and Roadster. Plus: Tesla hits an important production milestone for the 4680 battery cells, California will no longer allow Tesla to market Full Self-Driving as Full Self-Driving, and more!

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0:00.0	Happy New Year friends on this week's first 2023 episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast
0:07.0	I make my annual New Year's predictions for all things Tesla as 2023 gets started. Plus Tesla hits an important
0:15.4	production milestone for the 4680 battery cells. California will no longer
0:20.3	allow Tesla to market full self-driving as full self-driving and more. Oh, Greetings friends, happy New Year to you, I of course am Ryan McCaffrey and
0:49.1	this is episode 387 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast for January 1st,
0:57.0	2023. I hope all of you are having a wonderful new year, start to your new 2023, had a good time, fun, safe, New
1:07.0	Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and here we go. The World of Tesla never stops, and we will get started.
1:13.2	I'm going to do my Tesla predictions for 2023 here in just a minute.
1:17.5	But there are also other news stories to talk about.
1:20.7	It was not a quiet week, as I would have guessed it would be here between the Christmas and New Year's
1:26.5	holidays, so there is plenty to get to. But first, I hope all of you ludicrous tier backers on my Patreon enjoyed this week's lightning round
1:36.1	mini episode which is made exclusively for Patreon and this week it was about my
1:41.3	mini review of the plaid model X after I got to spend a couple of
1:46.6	hours with it thanks to very generous Patreon backer Victoria Ayakoveto so Victoria you so much. It was fun to have lunch with her, do some
1:56.0	plaid Model X launches, and I talk all about the experience, what I like about the Model X Plaid
2:02.0	and what I don't like about the Model X Plaid and what I don't like about the Model X Plaid on that
2:05.8	lightning round mini episode.
2:07.9	As a reminder, any time any of you decide to join my Patreon at that Lud tier or higher that's the $10 per month
2:15.8	or higher tier you will get access to all of these lightning round mini episodes there
2:21.7	are almost 30 of them now. I'm not I think 29. So you can
2:26.2	check them out at patreon.com slash Tesla podcast. Patreon spelled patreon spelled
2:32.0	patrater eon. All right. a Although I guess not quite dive right in first as is tradition I have to score how I did last year and hold myself accountable for last year's prediction.
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