Episode 490: Franz Shares Cybercab Design Insights

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen gives a design overview of the Cybercab, Cybertruck owners get an interim supercharging speed boost as they wait for the full 500kW next year, FSD version 13 goes wide with good news for AI3 owners to boot, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Tesla chief designer Franz von Holshousen gives a design overview of the cyber cab.
0:10.0	Cyber truck owners get an interim supercharging speed boost as they wait for the full 500 kilowatts next year.
0:17.2	Full self-driving version 13 goes wide with good news for AI three owners of Ride the Lightning.
0:49.2	It's your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast, this one publishing on December 22nd, 2004. To my left on the couch is
0:58.3	Daisy the Boxer. Directly in front of me are 20 pages of Tesla notes, lots to talk to you about
1:04.8	this week. First up, I want to wish a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah this week to those who are celebrating.
1:11.8	I decided this week for the Patreon poll to go with a Tesla holiday theme.
1:17.2	So in just the spirit of this week, I asked, have you used the holiday light show feature in your Tesla?
1:24.7	Now, as many of you probably know, it used to be that the Model X was the only
1:30.0	Tesla vehicle that got a light show. But a few years ago, they rolled it out to the rest of the
1:35.8	fleet as well. The X is arguably still the star of those light shows, since it has the, the
1:42.1	Falcon Wing doors that can effectively flap, but the rest of the cars have really cool light shows since it has the the uh the falcon wing doors that can effectively flap but
1:45.8	the rest of the cars have really cool light shows as well so i asked you simply have you used
1:51.5	the holiday light show feature in your tesla and i was very happy to see that 46% of you said yes
1:58.4	with just 25% of you voting no and another 20% of you said yes, with just 25% of you voting no, and another 20% of you saying,
2:04.8	no, but I will now that this poll reminded me about it.
2:08.9	And then 9% saying, I don't have a Tesla or light show capable Tesla slash just show me the results.
2:15.9	So thank you to everybody that took the time to stop by and vote in this week's
2:19.9	Patreon poll.
2:20.9	It's totally free.
2:22.2	You don't need to be backing me on Patreon or anything like that.
2:25.1	Just swing by typically every Tuesday evening is when the poll goes up.
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