Episode 485: Insane 500kW Supercharging on the Way for Cybertruck!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Tesla announced version 4 Supercharging cabinets that will allow Cybertrucks to supercharge at double the peak rate of the rest of the Tesla fleet. Plus: Cybertruck’s lead engineer is honored by TIME Magazine, NHTSA has a beef with Tesla over the company’s social media posts, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:04.2 | Tesla announced version four supercharging cabinets that will allow cyber trucks to supercharge |
| 0:10.0 | at double the peak rate of the rest of the Tesla fleet. |
| 0:14.2 | Plus, cybertruck's lead engineer is honored by Time magazine. |
| 0:19.0 | NHTSA has a beef with Tesla over the company's social media posts |
| 0:22.8 | and more. What's happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey joining you, as always, for your weekly |
| 0:47.4 | dose of Tesla news, discussion, and analysis. |
| 0:50.1 | It's episode 485, releasing on November 17th, 2024. |
| 0:55.9 | I've got two pooped pups behind me after a nice long walk right before I started recording |
| 1:01.6 | this podcast. |
| 1:02.9 | I do want to start this episode with a heartfelt message if you'll just give me a moment. |
| 1:08.4 | Long time Ride the Lightning listener Greg, who's a Tesla fan, Tesla owner, |
| 1:13.9 | and more importantly, a husband and father of four, who I've actually had the pleasure of meeting |
| 1:18.8 | up with in person a couple of times when he's been down in San Francisco, and I can confirm that |
| 1:23.6 | this guy, he's a genuinely good and kind person. The reason I bring him up is because he and his |
| 1:30.3 | family lost their home in the mountain fire that occurred in Southern California earlier this month. |
| 1:37.3 | His house is literally gone. And now he's got to fight with his insurance company and literally |
| 1:43.4 | rebuild his home, not figuratively literally rebuild it. |
| 1:47.8 | And unfortunately, two other families immediately adjacent to them also lost their homes. |
| 1:53.7 | Now, thankfully, everybody's okay. And Greg did tell me that, yes, they did get their Tesla out. |
| 1:58.8 | I actually presume that was probably how they got away from the fire |
| 2:02.8 | after they noticed that there was going to be nothing that they could do about it, but everything else is gone. |
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