Episode 416: Q2 Earnings Call Recap: FSD Transfer, Cybertruck Updates, and More!

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Tesla held its Q2 earnings call to discuss its just-completed monster quarter. I’ve got audio clips from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, including updates on Cybertruck, transferring your FSD package to a new car, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast,
0:04.1	Tesla held its Q2 earnings call to discuss its just completed monster quarter
0:09.2	and I've got audio clips from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, including updates on
0:14.7	Cyber Truck, transferring your FSD to a new car, yes, they're finally doing it,
0:20.0	and more. What's happening Tesla Friends alongside two sleepy and happy doggos over here.
0:46.7	I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning Year weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast
0:51.0	for July 23rd, 2023.
0:55.0	There is so much to get to.
0:57.0	Now, last week, as I had warned you, I recorded early,
1:00.0	and as it turned out, I still, even if I'd recorded at my usual Friday night time
1:05.8	I still would have missed an incredibly noteworthy bit of Tesla news that we'll be talking more about from the earnings call.
1:13.4	Tesla posted it on their Twitter account at 12 46 a.m. Pacific Time late Friday night
1:20.7	slash Saturday morning and that is a photo of a cyber truck at
1:25.8	giga Texas surrounded by employees with the caption first cyber truck built at
1:31.7	giga Texas and I presume the folks surrounding it were the
1:36.3	Gigatexis General Assembly team.
1:38.9	Now, this set, of course, the Tesla community a flutter with a lot of chatter, as you might expect.
1:47.3	People are wondering, well, wait a second.
1:49.2	Is this the first production truck?
1:51.7	First something else? Has production started? production minutes later clarified that this was the first release candidate
2:04.4	truck not the first production truck and if you're still wondering well
2:08.4	wait a minute huh first one in Texas they've been running around all over the place.
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