Episode 446: My Cybertruck Review

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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I give you my full review of the Cybertruck after living with it for three days. Plus: the last big domino falls in the quest for universal NACS adoption, the new largest Tesla Supercharger in the world is under construction in California, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, I'll give you my review of the cyber truck after getting to live with it for a full weekend.
0:09.4	Plus, the last big domino falls in the quest for Universal NACS adoption.
0:15.0	The new largest supercharger in the world is under construction in California and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you alongside Daisy the Boxer
0:45.8	and this is episode 446 of Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla Unofficial
0:51.7	Podcast for February 18th, 2024. I am recording a little
0:57.7	bit early here this week on Thursday evening. My mother-in-law and father-in-law are coming into town. In fact, they arrive tonight. It is my
1:06.0	mother-in-law's 80th birthday, so we're having a big family celebration. We've got a lot of
1:10.7	family activities planned, including Friday evening, so I wanted to get this out now.
1:16.4	So those of you kind enough to support me on Patreon will get an additional extra 24 hours of early access to this episode.
1:25.0	I want to start with the headline topic this week, my cyber truck review.
1:30.0	And I know I said on last week's podcast that I would do it later in the show
1:34.2	so the people that come for the Tesla news and analysis could get that
1:39.6	and then if you wanted to hang around for the cyber truck review you could do so but with all
1:45.5	love and respect I've changed my mind I just figure that the cyber truck and
1:50.6	what it's like to live with is probably of interest for a lot of you.
1:55.0	So I'm going to start with that and if that is not of interest to you I do
1:59.2	apologize just keep on fast-forwarding until you don't hear cyber truck stuff anymore.
2:05.0	There's still plenty to talk about later on in this podcast, but I will begin with my cyber truck review, so I picked it up on late Friday afternoon I
2:16.3	returned it 72 hours later on late Monday afternoon and I want to thank he is he has allowed himself to be
2:24.3	identified he did let me know it was okay I want to thank Emmett Peppers for very
2:29.9	very generously allowing me to borrow his cyber truck for a few days. If that
2:35.2	name sounds familiar it's because Emmett was extraordinarily kind to
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