Episode 511: First Responders and Teachers Now Get a Tesla Discount

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Tesla expands its military discount program to include additional American heroes, Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ and ‘Cybercab’ trademarks hit roadblocks, FSD is finally set to (partially) roll out in Europe, Toyota gets a bit more serious about EVs, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast,
0:04.3	Tesla expands its military discount program to include additional American heroes.
0:10.2	Tesla's Robotaxy and Cybercab trademarks hit roadblocks.
0:15.2	FSD is set to finally, but partially, roll out in Europe.
0:20.0	Toyota gets a bit more serious about EVs and more. What's happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey, joining you, as always, here from San Francisco, California for episode 511 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, publishing on May 18th, 2025. I'm recording here
0:56.9	on Friday evening of May 16th, 2025. To my left, as usual, Daisy the Boxer, outside my home
1:06.5	office, it is Canine Chaos here in the McCaffrey household, as not only do we have Daisy and Lily,
1:14.5	our full-timers, but we still have Zelina for just one more night, and as of just about an hour ago,
1:22.2	Maina is back in the house as well. I love them all. Four of them is just, it's too many for me. So I'm, I will be
1:31.5	sorry, but not sorry to see Zelina go home to her family tomorrow. But it is, it is awesome having
1:38.3	both of these service dog puppies that have meant so much to my family and I here, along with Daisy.
1:45.3	And then with Lily, I mean, Zelina is who inspired me to get Lily for my wife in the first place.
1:51.7	So it's pretty cool having all of them here.
1:54.4	And I guess I say that, to say this, any craziness you might hear picked up on the microphone in the background on this week's podcast is almost certainly going to be them.
2:06.5	Daisy's in here with me, but my wife and daughter have to contend with the Labrador's.
2:12.1	Also, a quick little just show note up front, you may already be hearing this in my voice. I jinks
2:20.0	myself at the top of last week's show by saying, surely I'd be all better by this week's show.
2:27.1	Whoops, that is not the case. I just got back from the doctor's office to get antibiotics for a sinus infection.
2:35.3	So my voice did come back early this week.
2:38.3	It took several days, but it just seemed to morph into a sinus infection.
2:43.6	So it's okay.
2:45.0	I'll be all right.
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