Episode 407: Tesla Shareholder Meeting Recap: Cybertruck, Roadster, and More!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting this week, and there’s plenty to talk about! The topics include the Cybertruck, Tesla’s next cars (plural), Optimus, the next-gen Roadster, and more! I’ve got highlight clips from Elon Musk and analysis of all of the information presented.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.3 | Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting this week and there is plenty to talk about. |
| 0:09.6 | The topics include the Cyber Truck, Tesla's next cars, plural, Optimus, the Next Gen Roadster, and more. |
| 0:18.0 | I've got highlight clips from Elon Musk and analysis of all of the information presented. Stay tuned. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:48.0 | happening friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 4.07 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for May 21st |
| 0:54.3 | 2023. I am flanked on either side |
| 0:57.9 | by the dogs of my household here. Good to be with you. It is a big week in Tesla news. |
| 1:04.0 | Of course, the Tesla shareholder meeting happened this past week. |
| 1:08.0 | I've got so many clips, about a dozen of them for you, just trying to boil down the entire what hour and a half or so |
| 1:15.7 | presentation actually more like hour and 45 minutes down to a more manageable time |
| 1:20.9 | gets you the all the best highlights the analysis of that but first I wanted to start |
| 1:26.4 | with a little bit of a Tesla aside so this past week I saw a car in my neighborhood |
| 1:32.9 | parked on the street it was a model three. |
| 1:34.8 | I'm walking by it with Daisy, |
| 1:36.6 | as I'm just taking her for a walk. |
| 1:38.2 | And I just happened to glance over, |
| 1:40.4 | and the protective temporary plastic film that comes from the factory is still on the |
| 1:48.0 | center screen and I look, wait a second, I feel like I've seen this car before so I back up to the back of the car, the license plate, |
| 1:55.4 | and yes, this car has been on the road for at least a year based on the registration |
| 2:01.0 | and the license plate number. You could tell that this thing's been on the road for a while, and this person still got their temporary screen film on there that's meant to be peeled off when you take delivery of the car. |
| 2:16.4 | So and I realize well wait a second I've seen this sometimes before and I'm thinking |
| 2:21.0 | well you know what I think this is just my OCD |
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