Episode 417: The World Wants to Buy Teslas More Than Any Other Car
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
A new report shows that Tesla is the most desired car in not only most of the United States, but also around the world. Plus: Tesla continues to dominate California car sales, Giga India rumors heat up, a coalition of seven legacy automakers commit to a new nationwide fast-charging network, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, a new survey shows that Tesla is the most desired car in not only most of the United States, but also around the world. |
| 0:12.0 | Plus, Tesla continues to dominate California car sales. |
| 0:16.5 | Giga India rumors heat up, |
| 0:19.0 | a coalition of seven legacy automakers commit to a new nationwide fast charging network and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:50.2 | happening, friends. Welcome to Ride the Lightning, your Tesla Unofficial Podcast. It's episode 417 for July 30th, 2023. Well a quick PSA to get things started here. I wanted to let |
| 0:58.7 | all of you know that I will be going on a family vacation this coming week, but as usual with Ride the Lightning |
| 1:05.0 | the show does go on I have a great show already prepared for you locked and loaded in |
| 1:10.9 | the back end so there will be no vacation. |
| 1:14.8 | Keep listening as you always would. |
| 1:16.5 | I can't have my consecutive episodes, |
| 1:19.9 | consecutive Week Street go away now. |
| 1:22.0 | So I've planned ahead ahead I have a good |
| 1:24.6 | podcast full of new material for you now it won't be timely material like it usually |
| 1:30.6 | is because I won't be around for that but I've got something fun and |
| 1:34.1 | interesting at least I think it's fun and interesting plan so I do hope you enjoy |
| 1:38.3 | next week's podcast but if you don't that's okay you can't please everybody all the time, and I'll be back with episode on 419 with the usual format of all the reactions and analysis to the latest and greatest breaking news in the world of Tesla. |
| 1:56.9 | So I am looking forward to getting away and having a week of fun with my family, as I'm lucky enough to get to do a couple of times a year |
| 2:04.7 | and I appreciate all of you allowing me to go do that, continuing to listen, continuing to |
| 2:09.9 | support the podcast here. |
| 2:12.2 | Now speaking of fun, Tesla has been having more fun |
| 2:16.5 | with the cyber truck wraps that they've been putting on to the the engineering prototypes the release |
| 2:24.4 | candidates that are running around the San Francisco Bay Area. So I talked about |
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