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Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Episode 426: Gigacasting Is About to Evolve

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8988 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tesla’s Giga Shanghai team is reportedly working on the next level of gigacasting that would forge the entire underbody of a car in one piece. Plus: Giga Texas is getting a Cyber Cafeteria, Carmax shares some interesting data about the ICE cars that Model 3 owners leave behind, 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's Gigas Shanghai team is reportedly working on the next level of gigacasting

0:09.8

that would forge the entire underbody of a car in one piece.

0:15.0

Plus, Gigatexis is getting a cyber cafeteria.

0:19.3

Carmack shares some interesting data about ICE cars that model three owners leave behind and more. Oh, What's happening,

0:51.0

happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey here with you for another episode of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast, this one for October 1st

0:56.1

2023, episode 426. Yes, I said October 1st, we are already in Q4. Q3, aka the quarter where we finally got the

1:07.8

FSD transfer capability that we were all waiting for has come to an end. Mostly, there is good news though, and those of

1:17.1

you that are affected by this already know, but for everybody else, I think this is just a good

1:20.9

thing to know because it's Tesla doing the right thing for its customers.

1:26.1

So Tesla acknowledged that it will honor the FSD transfer for customers that ordered their new Tesla by the end of the third quarter by

1:35.8

September 30th you no longer have to have taken delivery of the car by the end of September, the end of the quarter.

1:44.5

And again, this is just the right thing to do.

1:46.8

And kudos to Tesla for doing so, because a customer should not be penalized

1:52.2

for something that could be and probably is completely

1:56.1

out of their control, such as say, just like a random example. A car carrier that's carrying

2:02.2

your car on it gets say a flat tire or there's a there's a

2:07.2

five-car pile up in front of it on the interstate that that keeps it from getting to

2:12.1

where it needs to be on time and so you know that is not

2:16.7

something that the customer should be penalized for particularly penalized to the tune of

2:22.0

12,000 dollars the tune of $12,000 the value of FSD. So I was really glad to see

2:26.7

Tesla do that and maybe even a few of you out there took advantage of that and

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