Episode 438: New Cybertruck Details From Franz and Lars with Jay Leno
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Tesla Design Chief Franz von Holzhausen and Engineering VP Lars Moravy spend an hour sharing insights and previously unknown features of the Cybertruck with Jay Leno. Plus: one of the last major dominoes falls in the quest to standardize Tesla’s NACS charge port, Cybershoes might be on the way soon, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.1 | Tesla Design Chief Franz von Holshousen and engineering |
| 0:07.5 | VP Lars Moravi spend an hour sharing insights and previously unknown features the cyber truck with Jay Leno. |
| 0:15.0 | Plus, one of the last major dominoes falls in the quest to standardize Tesla's NACS |
| 0:21.0 | charge port. |
| 0:22.0 | Cyber shoes might be on the way soon and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you for episode |
| 0:48.9 | 438 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, coming at you every single Sunday at 9 AM |
| 0:56.6 | Eastern, 6 AM Pacific. |
| 0:58.6 | It is December 24th, 23 as this episode releases. |
| 1:03.8 | It's the 22nd as I record it, and I am flanked by two tired pupos, |
| 1:09.0 | Zellina the Future Service Dog, whose time with us sadly now is getting quite limited. |
| 1:13.8 | We've just got about six, seven, seven weeks left, I think, with her. |
| 1:17.8 | And Daisy the Boxer snoozing over there on the couch as well. |
| 1:21.6 | I want to start this week by wishing a Merry Christmas to all |
| 1:24.6 | of those who celebrate. I don't know how many of you will actually listen to this |
| 1:28.6 | this week. It might be one of those episodes you catch up on because you've got family |
| 1:32.4 | around, you're doing family |
| 1:33.4 | stuff you're doing holiday fun times that's all good the podcast is always here for you that's |
| 1:39.5 | the beauty of podcasting versus traditional live radio you don't you don't have to tune in at the |
| 1:44.8 | appropriate time. You can tune it any time you want. Also this week before I get |
| 1:50.5 | rolling I want to say congratulations to all of you who have been lucky enough to order |
| 1:55.9 | your Foundation series Cybertrucks. Deliveries are starting to happen. For now |
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