Episode 395: Investor Day Predictions + Rumored Model 3 Interior Change
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Tesla’s Investor Day is coming up and I’ve got predictions for what might get announced. Plus: the Model 3’s wood dashboard trim is reportedly going away, Tesla is eyeing the acquisition of a lithium mining company, and more! If you'd like to look at and consider signing listener Brian from Michigan's Change.org petition to try and get NHTSA to reclassify the term "recall" when it pertains to over-the-air safety fixes, you can find it at https://www.change.org/p/modernize-nhtsa-s-recall-language-to-better-address-software-vs-hardware-issues
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.7 | Tesla's Investor Day is coming up and I've got predictions for what might get announced. |
| 0:08.8 | Plus, the Model 3's wood dashboard trim is reportedly going away. |
| 0:13.9 | Tesla is eyeing the acquisition of a lithium mining company and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 1995 of Ride the Lightning. |
| 0:43.8 | It's your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:46.3 | everything you need in just about an hour. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm joined, of course, by Daisy the Boxer |
| 0:51.2 | to my left on the couch, with Zellina the future service dog |
| 0:54.1 | plus Rue my brother-in-law's dog actually more accurately my sister-in-law's dog as she |
| 0:59.3 | hangs out while they're away for the week. Let's get right into it. |
| 1:03.0 | I want to start with Investor Day predictions. |
| 1:06.4 | That is coming up March 1st this week, |
| 1:09.1 | so I will have a full recap and analysis for you |
| 1:11.8 | on next week's episode, hopefully Tesla is going to |
| 1:15.2 | live stream it and if they do and I think they probably will if they do I will |
| 1:20.2 | have audio clips for you too just like I would for any big Tesla event, be it an earnings call, a vehicle unveiling, etc. |
| 1:30.0 | So I'll start with this. I've got one two three four five six predictions. You know what I'll go I'll do the the most obvious one first based on everything that's been happening and I'll say this the announcement |
| 1:43.8 | that the hardware for autopilot cars hard autopilot hardware for that those cars are |
| 1:50.0 | in production now that's already been rumored and I wouldn't say all but confirmed |
| 1:56.1 | but it's looking quite quite likely so that seems like one thing that'll happen. |
| 2:01.6 | Now let me give you five other ones. Number one, I have to |
| 2:05.2 | imagine there will be a cyber truck production line tour. I think it's going to be a more |
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