Episode 413: New Cybertruck Details Revealed

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen showed up at a car show with the latest pre-production Cybertruck, and as a result we learned a few new details about the imminent stainless steel beast. Plus: more automakers sign on to use the North American Charging Standard, Tesla rolls out its first bit of advertising, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast,
0:04.0	Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holshousen showed up at a car show with the latest
0:08.8	pre-production cyber truck, and as a result we learned a few new details about the imminent
0:14.3	stainless steel beast. Plus more automakers sign on to use the North American
0:19.8	charging standard. Tesla rolls out its first bit of advertising and more. Oh, Greetings friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for the 413th
0:49.6	weekly episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast.
0:54.0	This one for July 2nd, 2023.
0:56.9	Happy 4th of July holiday weekend
0:59.5	to my American listeners.
1:00.9	Well, I hope at least a few of you were able to make it out to the
1:05.2	Peterson Auto Museum in Los Angeles last Sunday morning for that first ever
1:10.1	EV Cars and Coffee that I mentioned. Why do I say that? Well as promised
1:14.9	Franz von Holshousen was there, but what I had no idea about was that Franz
1:21.1	would roll up in the latest pre-production cyber truck build.
1:25.6	People were able to get really close to it, take a ton of pictures,
1:29.3	a ton of photos, and as such, there are now a lot of new photos and videos of the latest
1:35.3	build online and as I said you could just get right up to it almost touch it so
1:40.5	here are some things we've learned from all of those new pictures those new videos I want to kick off the show with that because I know so many of you are eager to hear more about the cyber truck myself included. So first the tires. We already
1:56.0	knew that the tires are custom Goodyear tires. They have a custom sidewall
2:01.6	to perfectly match the arrow
2:05.0	air wheel covers I should say arrow wheel covers
2:08.0	and now we know the tire size
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