Episode 442: Cybertruck Is Getting Better Already
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Cybertruck has a big physical improvement coming soon via an over-the-air software update. Plus: Panasonic is cooking up improvements to Tesla’s stalwart 2170 battery cells used in the Model 3 and Model Y, the paint colors on the Model S and Model X are no longer free, 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 | the Cyber Truck has a big physical improvement coming soon via an over-the-air software update. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, Panasonic is cooking up improvements to Tesla's Stalwart 2170 battery cells used in the |
| 0:17.0 | Model 3 and Model Y. The paint colors on the Model S and Model X are no longer free and more. What's happening, |
| 0:34.0 | happening, what's happening? |
| 0:35.0 | What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you for the January 21st |
| 0:47.8 | 2004 episode of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla Unofficial podcast. This one is episode 442 and I |
| 0:57.4 | would like to start this week by giving a shout out to Rob Maurer. Now some of you may be familiar with Rob. He ran the Tesla |
| 1:06.5 | Daily podcast for the past six years and Rob did an incredible job. |
| 1:13.0 | He just announced this week the end of his podcast |
| 1:17.3 | because he is starting an investment firm, which is awesome. |
| 1:21.0 | So I wanted to salute Rob here at the top of the podcast for six years of |
| 1:27.0 | fantastic podcast. I mean I think he and I didn't really compete if you will certainly we were friendly we got together and |
| 1:34.2 | would talk at Tesla events because he was focused kind of more on the financial |
| 1:39.5 | investing side of Tesla and I'm kind of focused more on the the news and just kind of the |
| 1:46.6 | almost radio show that's like they're just two different things so you know I was |
| 1:51.0 | always happy to see Rob dowell and see him succeed. |
| 1:54.8 | And I mean, I guess if you wanted an analogy, |
| 1:58.1 | maybe he was the Daily Show with John Stewart |
| 2:01.9 | and I'm last week tonight with John Oliver. I don't know but in any case |
| 2:06.2 | Rob's a good dude and I was surprised to see his announcement but super happy for him. I wish him the very best on his |
| 2:14.3 | very big bold new chapter and I have no doubt based on his success with Tesla |
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