Episode 519: The New King of Supercharging Stations Opens
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Tesla’s latest gigantic Supercharging station is online and it’s incredibly impressive. I’ll tell you all about it. Plus: the new Model 3 scores a huge safety rating in Europe, Tesla’s European FSD Supervised push continues, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla's latest gigantic supercharging station is online and it's incredibly impressive. |
| 0:10.3 | I'll tell you all about it. Plus, the new Model 3 scores a huge safety rating in Europe. |
| 0:17.0 | Tesla's European FSD supervised push continues and more. What's happening, friends? |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla and EV podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | This is episode 519 publishing on July 13th, 2025. |
| 0:51.5 | I, of course, am Ryan McCaffrey, to my left, relaxing on the couch after a nice big walk, |
| 0:57.0 | Daisy the Boxer, and doing the same to my right on the floor. It's Lily, the silly Labrador |
| 1:02.2 | puppy. Hope you're having a great week. Hope all is well. Hope your summer is off to a good start, |
| 1:07.7 | unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case, I hope your winter is off to a good start. Well, I've got some fun news to start with this week. |
| 1:16.7 | A little birdie told me that Tesla is doing a friends and family trial run of the Tesla |
| 1:23.2 | diner slash supercharger down in Hollywood this week, which means we are really close to it |
| 1:31.8 | opening to the public, barring anything going catastrophically wrong, which I couldn't even really |
| 1:38.0 | imagine what that would be to delay the opening. I don't know, maybe like everybody universally says they hate all of the food or something. |
| 1:47.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:47.9 | That's probably not going to happen. |
| 1:49.4 | But anyway, that is exciting. |
| 1:51.4 | I'm not sure if that'll have been reported anywhere else by the time this podcast airs. |
| 1:55.7 | But I am reporting that to you now, that the Friends and Family Trial Run is happening this week. |
| 2:03.1 | Speaking of superchargers and food, by the way, here's a fun appetizer, figurative only. |
| 2:09.6 | Here's a fun show appetizer to get this episode going. |
| 2:14.5 | The first phase of a massive new solar powered totally off the grid supercharging site is |
| 2:21.9 | online. Yes, this is the headline story for this week. It is the Lost Hills, California site. |
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