Episode 521: Q2 Earnings Call Recap, Highlights, and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its earnings call for Q2, and I’ve got highlight clips from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, plus a summary and analysis of all the news. Plus: the Tesla Diner is now open – and I got to go eat there!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla held its earnings call for Q2, |
| 0:07.3 | and I've got highlight clips from Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team, plus a summary and analysis of all the news. |
| 0:14.7 | Plus, the Tesla diner is now open, and I got to go eat there. |
| 0:19.7 | All that and more coming up next. What's happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey joining you for episode 521 of Ride the Lightning. |
| 0:47.4 | It is your weekly Tesla and Evie podcast. To my left, Daisy the Boxer keeping me company on the couch, like Ed McMahon to Johnny |
| 0:56.0 | Carson, and somewhere out in the rest of the house, my daughter is playing with the Labradors. |
| 1:01.7 | I hope you're all doing very well. I am doing very well. I've had a very busy Tesla week |
| 1:07.0 | that's not over yet. At the beginning of the week, well, I should say, tomorrow as I record |
| 1:12.1 | this, Saturday, is the X takeover, the Tesla takeover. I am emceeing the afternoon. I've got a |
| 1:18.7 | meet and greet there. I'm on one panel as well. I hope I will get to meet a number of you, |
| 1:24.1 | or see a number of you again face to face as I have had the privilege of doing |
| 1:28.7 | so at the last couple years of the Tesla takeover. And then earlier this week, as it so happened, |
| 1:37.3 | I was in Los Angeles on a business trip and I got to go to the Tesla diner and eat there. It just, it worked out about as perfectly |
| 1:48.3 | as it could have. I mean, I wish I'd have had a little bit more time. I guess I should more say |
| 1:53.0 | it just barely worked out, but I'm grateful that it did. So since, as always, there's so much to |
| 2:00.0 | cover on an earnings call episode and i absolutely just couldn't wait |
| 2:05.3 | to talk about my experience at the tesla diner after going there for lunch on tuesday i recorded |
| 2:11.5 | this week's lightning round mini episode on patreon about this i think it's the 40 40 minutes long is the longest one I've ever done. |
| 2:21.4 | That's what I was trying to say. I think it's the longest one I've ever done. But I don't want to |
| 2:26.6 | lock that behind a paywall. So because the Tesla diner, a lot of you are probably curious |
| 2:31.4 | about it. So as an early Ride the Lightning 10th anniversary present to all of you, I am unlocking |
| 2:38.9 | that lightning round for everybody today. |
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