Episode 397: Will the Next-Gen Tesla Be Out in a Year?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Giga Mexico is on an accelerated timeline, with a new report suggesting that the next-generation Tesla could be released sooner than you think. Plus: the Model S and X each get another price cut AND a new paint color, a Cybertruck design patent gets granted, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.8 | Gigam Mexico is on an accelerated timeline |
| 0:06.7 | with a new report suggesting that the next generation Tesla could be released |
| 0:10.6 | sooner than you think. |
| 0:12.1 | Plus, the model S&X each get another price cut and a new paint |
| 0:16.6 | color, a cyber truck design patent gets granted and more. Greetings friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 397 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:45.8 | the Tesla unofficial podcast for March 12th, 2023 and it has been such an incredibly busy week of Tesla news that I got to jump right in with |
| 0:56.4 | some quick hits to start things off. So I want to start here. There was one small but notable |
| 1:02.0 | thing from the Investor Day presentation last week that I had |
| 1:06.0 | meant to mention but forgot to. |
| 1:08.9 | And it came during the talk by Tesla's head of global charging infrastructure, Rebecca Tannucci. |
| 1:15.0 | So it was she who mentioned the first V4 superchargers, which I did talk about last week. |
| 1:21.5 | But anyway, one of the slides that she had on the screen showed |
| 1:25.8 | a model S. Plaid in an open garage, and on the wall of this garage was a rather large Tesla wall charger, except it wasn't a traditional charger. |
| 1:39.4 | Extending down from this strange design was a long wire that went not to the end of a cable |
| 1:46.0 | that you plug into the charge port of the car, but down into a pad located underneath the back of the model S in the photo and actually think it's probably a render not not an actual photograph but in any case |
| 2:00.5 | yes a wireless charging pad for your car. Now in the past these have been known for |
| 2:08.0 | inefficiency. It's not that they don't exist, it's that people like Tesla haven't gone to them because they have |
| 2:15.1 | been shown to have a lot of efficiency losses, charging losses. In other words, |
| 2:21.4 | more power is needed to provide the same amount of charge to your |
| 2:25.8 | Tesla that a regular wired wall connector would give you. So perhaps Tesla has |
| 2:31.8 | cracked that or at least narrowed the gap between the two |
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