Episode 448: Elon Musk Gives Incredible Update on New Tesla Roadster

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Elon, Leisure, Teslaroadster, Ev, Teslamodels, Roadster, Model3, Teslamodel3, Teslamodeliii, Tesla, Automotive, Bev, Gigafactory, Business News, Cars, Teslamotors, Modely, Cybertruck, Modelx, Electric, Elonmusk, Models, News, Electriccars, Teslamodelx, Semi

4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Elon Musk gives an enthusiastic new progress update on the long-awaited next-gen Tesla Roadster, the new Model 3 Performance’s final look has been spied at a promotional video shoot, an unexpected buyer has purchased the three “barn find” original Tesla Roadsters, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, a moment I've been waiting for for so long.
0:07.0	Elon Musk gives an enthusiastic new progress update on the long-awaited next-gen Tesla Roadster.
0:14.0	Plus, the new Performance Model 3's final look has been spied at a promotional video shoot.
0:20.0	An unexpected buyer has purchased the three barn find original Tesla roadsters and more. Oh, What's happening,
0:47.0	happening friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you for episode
0:50.0	448 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast
0:54.9	publishing here on March 3rd, 2024,
0:59.6	and we cannot even mess around this week.
1:02.6	We got to get right to the topic, at least that I'm the most excited about.
1:07.6	It is a big topic, no matter how you shake it, but for me, this was, I was so energized by what I'm about to talk about that I wanted to just do the podcast on Tuesday
1:18.6	Which is when all this happened. I just wanted to get in front of a microphone and go.
1:23.0	But I'm glad I waited to record at the normal time because there is so much to talk about this week
1:28.5	and a lot of it's super interesting. I mean, I think all of it's super interesting but let's start
1:34.3	here the next-gen Tesla Roadster unveiled in November of 2017 and really hardly any progress updates since then until now.
1:47.0	I have waited literal years for Elon Musk or anyone on the Tesla team to give us any sort of meaningful update on Tesla's
1:57.2	Supercar.
1:59.2	On Tuesday night, February 27, 2024, that is the date that I will probably not, I'm just kidding, I'm
2:06.2	exaggerating here a little bit, but it's not that I'll never forget February 27th, but my
2:11.6	goodness, that was a night that was very unexpected. This came out of nowhere.
2:17.2	Elon finally just went on a bit of a Twitter spree and gave us a ton of updates on the NextGen Roadster.
2:26.8	So I'm going to go tweet by tweet here.
2:29.3	So he started by posting, tonight we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla
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