Episode 424: Gen 3 Vehicle Tidbits + Cybertruck’s Frunk May Be Powered After All

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Walter Isaacson’s new authorized biography on Elon Musk is out, and it’s got some interesting tidbits on both Tesla’s $25k Gen 3 vehicle as well as the Robotaxi. Plus: Model S and X get an optional brake upgrade, older Model 3’s get a long-desired retrofit option, Cybertruck’s frunk might be powered after all, and more!

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0:00.0	On this episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast,
0:04.0	Walter Isaacson's new authorized biography on Elon Musk is out
0:08.0	and it's got some interesting tidbits on both Tesla's $25,000 generation three vehicle as well as the robot taxi.
0:16.0	Plus, model S and X get an optional brake upgrade.
0:20.0	Older model three's get a long desired retrofit option,
0:24.0	Cybertrucks Frunk might be powered after all and more. Oh, What's happening, happening, I'm Brian McCaffrey, and this is Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for September 17th,
0:56.3	2023.
0:57.3	It's episode 424, which is a palindrome.
1:01.2	It reads the same way forwards and backwards.
1:03.0	I don't know why I've always gotten a kick out of those, but I do.
1:07.0	Anyway, I start this week with a cyber truck appetizer,
1:11.0	and it might be a rather filling appetizer because this if it's
1:15.6	accurate and from the video that I watched I'm inclined to think this is correct
1:20.6	this could be really really good so take a listen here a is very cleverly user named Watts Your Ride. The video is of course it's shot
1:35.6	through a chain link fence because the person filming it's on public property
1:40.1	and they're filming through at gigiga Texas to a giga Texas worker who is standing in front
1:47.1	of a cyber truck futsing with the frunk. Now for a little context here the rest of this particular cyber truck is under a car cover
1:56.4	it's just the front that's exposed the front of the car cover is pulled up
2:00.8	so that this worker can access the frunk.
2:04.0	So that's relevant because it indicates that it's probably more likely than not that the
2:10.1	cyber truck in question is powered down. If it's just out there, it's under cover, it's not
2:16.6	in active use. Tesla maybe just have powered it down to prepare to ship it probably out my way towards Palo Alto and the Tesla
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