Episode 473: Tesla Leads as EV Sales Outpace Rest of Auto Market
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Tesla leads the way as EV sales outpace the rest of the automotive market for the month of June, the Tesla Semi prepares to hit the streets in Europe, Cybertruck’s FSD timeline gets a new update, 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 | Tesla leads the way as EV sales outpaced the rest of the automotive market for the |
| 0:09.0 | month of June, the Tesla Semi prepares to hit the streets in Europe. |
| 0:13.7 | Cyber Truck's FSD timeline gets a new update and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffray joining you of course for Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial |
| 0:44.1 | podcast. This is episode 473 publishing on August 25th, |
| 0:49.9 | 2024. At my feet below me mine of the future service dog puppy to my left |
| 0:55.8 | days of the boxer everybody's chilling for now we'll see if that lasts for the |
| 0:59.8 | entire recording of the podcast I wanted to start this week with a fun little accessory for a |
| 1:06.7 | vehicle I don't own yet that I just got in the mail today. I've got it in my hand here. |
| 1:10.8 | It's off of Etsy, somebody 3D printed these and they are |
| 1:15.8 | cyber truck door grabbers that go on the inside of the door jam. |
| 1:22.5 | So when the door is open, like if you're getting out of the car |
| 1:26.0 | and then you want to close it, you can grab onto these on the inside of the door jam |
| 1:31.0 | without having to grab onto the stainless steel and fingerprint it. |
| 1:35.8 | So I thought somebody had posted this on Reddit and I asked that Reddit user for a link which they kindly provided, went to the Etsy shop, and |
| 1:45.4 | bought two pairs, obviously since there are four doors on the cyber truck. |
| 1:49.8 | You just wipe it down with a, wipe down the stainless on the inside door jam there with a |
| 1:55.8 | with an alcohol wipe to make sure it's a prepped surface and then you stick it on there |
| 2:00.0 | and you've got yourself a nice little door grabber to help reduce fingerprints. |
| 2:04.0 | So if that is of interest to you, I can't comment yet on how well it works, |
| 2:09.0 | but again it was recommended by some folks in the cyber truck community in the Tesla community |
| 2:14.4 | feel free to email me or DM me or whatever you know reach out via social media or |
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