Episode 432: Matte Black Cybertruck and Tailgate Power Outlets Revealed!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
It’s a Cybertruck-tastic week as not only did we learn how many power outlets and what type are on board, but Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen was spotted driving a matte black-wrapped one around. Plus: I had another close encounter with a very clean build, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, it's a cyber trucktastic week |
| 0:06.4 | as we not only learn how many power outlets and what type are on board, |
| 0:11.1 | but Tesla chief designer Franz von Holeshousen was spotted driving a matte black wrapped |
| 0:16.5 | one around. Plus, I had another close encounter with a very clean cyber truck build and more. What's happening, friends? Welcome to Ride the Lightning. It is your weekly Tesla |
| 0:47.3 | unofficial podcast coming at you every single Sunday at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. |
| 0:52.0 | Pacific since August of 2015. |
| 0:55.0 | This is episode 432 for November 12, 2003. |
| 1:01.2 | And as you probably got a sense of at the very top there this is going to be an entirely |
| 1:08.1 | cyber truck themed show almost exclusively basically all of the news stories are about the cyber truck. |
| 1:14.2 | I had a close encounter again with a cyber truck in my own neighborhood, which I'm going to tell |
| 1:19.3 | you about in a couple minutes. |
| 1:20.9 | I think the phone calls aren't all about the cyber truck so |
| 1:24.6 | there may be a little bit of a break there, but something tells me that you're not |
| 1:28.2 | going to mind the fact that this episode is almost entirely about the cyber truck. So buckle up. is here about cyber trucks just out in the general Tesla community is, |
| 1:44.4 | well it look awesome in Matt Black. |
| 1:46.8 | Well apparently Tesla agrees with you because Tesla's own chief designer |
| 1:52.0 | and two-time guest on this podcast, Franz von Holshousen, |
| 1:55.8 | was spotted driving a Matt Black-wrapped cyber truck in LA this past week. In fact, I can picture Elon walking into the design studio one day, |
| 2:07.0 | jumping into one of the bare stainless steel release candidates in the design studio |
| 2:12.0 | with one of the other designers and going for a drive |
| 2:14.7 | with Franz and I imagine that that conversation would go something like this. |
| 2:22.1 | What's that? |
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