Episode 410: Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) Has Won
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
GM has joined Ford in adopting Tesla’s North American Charging Standard for its next generation of EVs. Plus: Giga Nevada is cranking up production on battery cells…but not the 4680s, Tesla’s negotiations for a Gigafactory in India appear to be getting more serious, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, GM has joined Ford in adopting |
| 0:06.6 | Tesla's North American charging standard for its next generation of EVs. |
| 0:11.5 | Plus, Gigna Nevada is cranking up production on battery cells, but not the 4680s. |
| 0:17.0 | Tesla's negotiations for a Gigafactory in India appear to be getting more serious and more. What's happening, |
| 0:43.7 | happening friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 410 of Ride the |
| 0:48.6 | Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, this one for June 11th, 2023 coming to you from downtown Los Angeles |
| 0:56.9 | this week. I am down here on a business trip through the weekend so I have brought |
| 1:01.9 | Ride the Lightning on the road with me and I'm |
| 1:04.5 | recording a little early this week I'm recording on Thursday evening instead of |
| 1:08.6 | Friday morning excuse me instead of Friday evening due to my work schedule |
| 1:12.3 | while I'm here. |
| 1:13.1 | So as always, when I record early, |
| 1:16.0 | if I miss any big news that hits on Friday, |
| 1:19.1 | I will be back to discuss that for you on next week's podcast. |
| 1:23.8 | But a quick hit to get started here, |
| 1:27.1 | we have an update, a brief update, |
| 1:29.6 | but a notable one on the 3-0-mile barn find Tesla Roadsters that are currently for sale |
| 1:37.4 | and being that sales being orchestrated by the Roadster caretakers at |
| 1:42.0 | Gruber Motors out of Phoenix. |
| 1:44.3 | Bidding on these three cars is being extended indefinitely. |
| 1:49.6 | Pete Gruber writes, as it plans to transfer the cars to Dubai so that bidders can take a look at the vehicles without red tape. |
| 1:56.2 | Quote, many thanks to all the bidders due to the recent preparations for moving the cars to Dubai, which will allow immediate bitter |
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