Episode 52: The Gigafactory is Open
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The Gigafactory has its grand opening party, Elon clarifies his plans for a Tesla bus, Michigan owners unite in the face of the state's ban on Tesla sales, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, the Gigafactory has its grand opening party. |
| 0:06.2 | Elon clarifies his plans for a Tesla bus, Michigan owners unite in the face of the state's ban on Tesla's sales and more. What's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey here on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors |
| 0:38.1 | unofficial podcast, episode 52 for July 31st, 2016. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm here joined as always by Maggie the Boxer |
| 0:45.8 | who is currently cleaning herself on the couch. |
| 0:49.8 | So if you hear, I'm not sure if the licking sounds, the incessant licking sounds are coming up on the mic, but if they are, you know why. |
| 0:58.2 | So I want to start off the show with a quick apology. |
| 1:01.6 | I am at a friend's cabin this weekend where there is not going to be any internet and phone will be spotty. |
| 1:09.0 | So I had to record the show on Friday night pretty much right after the Gigafactory Grand Opening |
| 1:15.6 | event. So I have no real... I'm not going to be able to get to stuff like |
| 1:21.0 | talking to Joe Willett who of course went. He was our our sponsor as it were for my sponsor as it were for the referral program. |
| 1:32.4 | We were able to get him thanks to you |
| 1:34.6 | guys and your generosity get him the referrals he needed to go so hopefully we're |
| 1:38.8 | going to talk to him in one form or another next week although he's there |
| 1:42.0 | who knows if he's even got good |
| 1:43.8 | self-service but I was able to listen to the stream that Tesla put on unfortunately |
| 1:50.4 | the quality was real bad. The video was virtually unplayable. The audio was good quality but kept cutting out. |
| 2:00.0 | So I've got some good clips. We'll get to those here in just a couple of minutes, but expect |
| 2:05.5 | more Gigafactory follow-up next week, which will actually work out because I would love to hear |
| 2:09.7 | from you guys in the Ride the Lightning Hotline with your reactions to Elon's comments at the |
| 2:15.3 | Gigafactory opening all the media coverage of the Gigafactory opening you know if |
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