Episode 390: Tesla Takes #1 Luxury Car Ranking in the USA
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Tesla has zipped past all of its competitors to become America’s best-selling luxury brand. Plus: some takeaways from my Franz von Holzhausen interview last week, Tesla has cracked Brand Finance's list of the World's Top 25 Most Valuable Brand rankings, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Franz von Holtzhausen and you're listening to Ride the Lightning with Ryan McCaffrey, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast. Oh, All right, how about that with the Franz von Holeshausen throw-in to start the podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined as always here on Ride the Lightning |
| 0:37.7 | the weekly Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:39.8 | by my K-9 co-hosts, Daisy the Boxer, and Zellina the Future Service Dog. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, I was so thrilled to get to go to the design studio and interview Franz von Holtzhausen |
| 0:51.6 | last week. |
| 0:52.4 | And at the end, when he was nice enough to record that little we you know I |
| 0:57.3 | guess for lack of a better term station ID a little promo I was just over the |
| 1:02.3 | moon you know I just we recorded it and then I. I was just over the moon, you know, I just, we recorded it and then I |
| 1:04.4 | and then I was out the door and so when I was sitting in the airport waiting for |
| 1:08.4 | my flight home, I listened back to it and I just got this huge smile on my face. I mean how cool is that. That is just the most fun thing. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm so grateful to Franz for his hospitality and for doing that little promo. That was awesome. |
| 1:23.0 | I hope all of you enjoyed last week's big interview with Franz. |
| 1:27.0 | It's basically impossible to top that |
| 1:30.0 | unless I had Elon Musk on this week, which spoiler I don't, I'm sorry, but I've still got a fun |
| 1:37.4 | podcast for you. There is plenty to talk about, so I will be doing lots of Tesla news for you here on this week's |
| 1:45.1 | podcast plus your phone calls in the ride the lightning hotline are coming up |
| 1:49.8 | as well. I want to thank all of you for sending in a lot of kind words about the |
| 1:55.2 | Franz interview and for all of you backing me on Patreon at the ludicrous tier of |
| 2:01.6 | the Patreon or higher. This week's weekly bonus lightning round |
| 2:06.8 | mini episode was all about the behind the scenes of last week's Franz |
| 2:11.7 | interview, kind of all the little bits and pieces that went |
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