Episode 491: My 13 Tesla Predictions for 2025
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
It’s that time of year: time for my annual Tesla New Year’s predictions. I’ll make some predictions for what to expect from Tesla in 2025, as well as grade my predictions from last year. Plus: Tesla pivots from PPF to vinyl at its service centers, the Cybertruck gets one step closer to launching in China, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, it's that time of year. |
| 0:05.8 | Time for my annual Tesla New Year's predictions. |
| 0:09.2 | I've got over a dozen of them about what to expect from Tesla in 2025, as well as grading my predictions from last year. |
| 0:17.4 | Plus, Tesla pivots from PPF to vinyl at its service centers. The cyber |
| 0:22.3 | truck gets one step closer to launching in |
| 0:24.5 | China and more. |
| 0:48.1 | The car is. What's happening, friends, welcome to Ride the Lightning. |
| 1:12.5 | It is episode 491 of your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast coming to you from San Francisco, recording on December 26th, because I've got some travel coming up. I'm going to be down in Arizona visiting my family, my parents later this week. So I wanted to get you the podcast done. Get it on time. Get it done. So I'm recording on the 26th. This is publishing on the 29th. Happy holidays to all of you this week. And it is an especially awesome holiday here in the McCaffrey household because |
| 1:19.1 | to my left is she's she's introducing herself already. Oh my goodness. Zelina, quiet. |
| 1:28.9 | Yes, I said Zelina. |
| 1:32.4 | We have Zelina here with us for this week. |
| 1:36.0 | She is of course a full-time. |
| 1:38.5 | She's a graduate. |
| 1:39.4 | She's a service dog. |
| 1:40.4 | She's with her forever family now. |
| 1:43.1 | And they are on an international trip this week. So they had |
| 1:47.8 | reached out and said, oh, you know, we don't want to take her on the international travel. Would |
| 1:52.5 | you guys watch her? And that was truly, and I'm not actually, I'm not even making a joke or |
| 1:58.5 | exaggerating or trying to just be polite. It's, it is seriously, it's the |
| 2:03.5 | best Christmas gift for us that we get to have her here this week. So Zalina, I'm not, I can't |
| 2:08.5 | even say future service dog. Zalina, the service dog is here. She is behind me. And if that big |
| 2:16.4 | bark comes up again during the recording, you'll know why, because she is behind me and if that big bark comes up again during the recording you'll know why |
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