Episode 508: Analyzing Tesla’s Q1 Earnings Call
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for Q1 2025, and there was plenty covered, from the robotaxis launching in the near future to Optimus to the more affordable Teslas and more. I’ll have highlight clips from the Tesla executive team plus my recap and analysis.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for the first quarter of 2025, |
| 0:08.0 | and there was plenty covered, from the Robotaxies launching in the near future, |
| 0:13.0 | to Optimus, to the more affordable Teslas and more. |
| 0:16.0 | I'll have highlight clips from the Tesla executive team, |
| 0:19.0 | plus my recap and analysis coming up next. What's happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey here joining you as I do each and every week for Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla and EV podcast. |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome to episode 508, publishing on April 27th, 2025. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm recording on the evening of April 25th. |
| 0:58.0 | So let's get right to it with a thank you to one of the listeners out there. |
| 1:03.0 | Terry from Portland, Oregon. |
| 1:05.0 | I wanted to shout him out because Terry pointed out that in my discussion of the long range rear wheel drive |
| 1:13.5 | cyber truck, there is one point in that variance favor that's worth pointing out. And that is this. |
| 1:19.9 | All is not lost with regard to charging other things with your long range rear wheel drive cyber truck. As we know, that variant doesn't |
| 1:30.1 | have any outlets in the bed or, for that matter, in the cabin. But as Terry kindly pointed out, |
| 1:36.1 | and I went and checked out on the online Tesla shop, Tesla's now selling a PowerShare outlet adapter. |
| 1:43.3 | It's $80, and it plugs into the car's charge port and it splits off and gives you two |
| 1:49.0 | 110 volt outlets, meaning common household outlets. |
| 1:54.0 | Here's the product description from the online Tesla shop. |
| 1:58.0 | PowerShare outlet adapter allows you to power electronic devices using mobile |
| 2:02.2 | connector and your PowerShare equipped vehicles battery. To use this adapter, plug mobile |
| 2:08.0 | connectors handle into your PowerShare equipped vehicles charge port and connect the adapter |
| 2:13.4 | to the other end of your mobile connector. You can then use this adapter to plug in any compatible electronic device you want to power. |
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