Episode 421: The Cybertruck Launch Seems to Be Imminent

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Cybertruck sightings continue to ramp up as production nears, Tesla tied Lexus for the highest customer satisfaction among luxury car buyers in a new survey, another major automaker has pledged to support Tesla’s North American Charging Standard, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcasts,
0:04.1	Cyber Truck Sightings continue to ramp up as production nears.
0:08.4	Tesla tied Lexis for the highest customer satisfaction among luxury car buyers in a new survey.
0:14.4	Another major automaker has pledged to support Tesla's North American charging standard
0:19.3	and more. And the What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey joining you from New York City this week as I'm here on business
0:46.5	recording episode 421 of Ride the Lightning your Tesla unofficial podcast for August 27th, 2023.
0:56.4	And I was thinking, you know, I don't think I've ever done Ride the Lightning from New York City.
1:01.8	I've done it from New Jersey, Boston years ago, Hawaii, Arizona, maybe one or two others.
1:09.6	But in any case, I'm stamping another place in my Ride the Lightning Passport today.
1:15.2	And by the way, before I get started, I am very sorry about the way I sound.
1:20.6	It appears to be a sinus infection that I'm now battling hot on the heels of the mild COVID that I had a couple weeks ago and just to make matters a little even more interesting right before I traveled I woke up in the middle of the night
1:34.5	right before my flight to New York with a wicked ear infection as well. So yeah I'm
1:39.8	not exactly at my best right now physically speaking but I have got a great
1:45.8	podcast for you that I am really excited to get going on so let's do just that.
1:51.1	First up following up on last week's call about using
1:55.6	PIN to drive if the screen goes out on you, the main display. Thank you to
2:01.0	listener, Cam Johnson and Patreon backers Paul Springfield and Will from
2:05.7	Lancaster and in fact as the course of the week went on a bunch of other kind folks
2:09.5	as well who wrote in or called in or tweeted me to let me know that not only can
2:15.3	pin to drive be enabled or disabled from your Tesla app but more to the specific
2:21.2	scenario laid out by the caller last week, as CAM put it to me in his email,
2:26.3	he wrote simply, there is a way to get around it by going into the app, going to controls
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