Episode 437: Cybertruck Engineering Tidbits from Tesla Leadership
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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A group of Tesla executives discusses some new features and innovations of the Cybertruck in a video with Sandy Munro. Plus: there’s bad news about the future of the Model 3’s federal tax credit eligibility, Giga Mexico is officially ready to break ground, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, a group of Tesla executives |
| 0:06.2 | discusses some new features and innovations of the cyber truck in a video with Sandy Monroe. |
| 0:11.5 | Plus, there's some bad news about the future of the |
| 0:14.6 | Model 3's federal tax credit eligibility. Gigam Mexico is officially ready to |
| 0:20.0 | break ground and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you for the December 17th |
| 0:45.9 | 2023 episode of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla Unofficial podcast |
| 0:51.1 | it is episode 437. So much to get to this week. We are still in the wake of the |
| 0:59.2 | cyber truck delivery event and so there is plenty more cyber truck stuff to talk about on this |
| 1:05.6 | week's episode which I'm looking forward to there's some good stuff in here I |
| 1:08.5 | want to start with a thank you to listener Steve who provided what I thought was a pretty great explanation about the |
| 1:15.8 | pressurizing the battery pack question that I had wondered aloud about on last |
| 1:21.0 | week's podcast you remember the Wade mode that the |
| 1:24.5 | cyber truck has. So Steve put it this way, he said quote, in a fixed size |
| 1:29.4 | vessel, the battery pack, scuba tank, etc. |
| 1:33.0 | The more air you pump in, it's adding weight, |
| 1:36.5 | but the amount of water that fixed size vessel will display |
| 1:40.5 | will remain the same so it's less buoyant. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm sure it's like the cabin during bio-wepin defense mode. |
| 1:47.0 | By adding positive pressure, any small possible leaks will be keeping what's outside on the outside. |
| 1:54.4 | So Steve, thank you very much. |
| 1:55.8 | That definitely crystallized it for me, |
| 1:58.6 | and I appreciate you sending in that note. |
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