Episode 434: Learning About EV Tires With a Michelin Tire Engineer
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Special guest Russell Shepherd, who is Michelin’s Technical Communications Director, joins me to talk about how EVs are changing the tire world, the evolution of tire technology brought on by the likes of Tesla and others in the EV space, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, special guest Russell Shepard, |
| 0:06.1 | who is Michelin's technical communications director, joins me to talk about how EVs are changing the |
| 0:11.8 | tire world, the evolution of tire technology brought on by the |
| 0:15.4 | likes of Tesla and others in the EV space, and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:33.0 | happening, |
| 0:35.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:39.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:40.0 | what's happening, what's happening, |
| 0:41.0 | welcome to Ride the Lightning. |
| 0:42.0 | It is your weekly Tesla |
| 0:43.6 | unofficial podcast this is a palindramatic episode 434 for November 26th |
| 0:51.2 | 2023 and so that means happy Thanksgiving to all of my American listeners as this is |
| 0:59.8 | being heard by you. You've already had your Thanksgiving. I hope it was a good one. |
| 1:04.3 | Hope it was a safe one. Hope you enjoyed time with friends, family, however you spent it. |
| 1:10.6 | I am currently recording this well ahead of Thanksgiving. I am surrounded by a |
| 1:15.7 | snoozing Daisy the Boxer on my left and a snoozing Zelina the Future Service dog. |
| 1:21.2 | Oh not in this room. |
| 1:23.0 | She's probably snoozing somewhere else. |
| 1:25.0 | Anyway, I hope all of you are doing well. |
| 1:28.0 | As I said, I am recording this ahead of time |
| 1:31.0 | because as you hear this, I am away with my in-laws my extended family |
| 1:36.0 | for Thanksgiving this week so in place of me not being here as always I've got a brand new podcast for you in this case I've just |
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