Episode 529: Elon Musk Gives FSD v14 and AI5 Updates
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Tesla CEO Elon Musk gives a notable update on both FSD Supervised version 14 as well as the potential power of the upcoming AI5 FSD Computer. Plus: more evidence mounts that the Model 3 will soon get a front bumper camera and a turn signal stalk, Rivian breaks ground on its new assembly plant in Georgia, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gives a notable update on both FSD supervised version 14, as well as the potential power of the upcoming AI-5 FSD computer. |
| 0:16.2 | Plus, more evidence mounts that the Model 3 will soon get a front bumper camera and a turn signal stalk. |
| 0:23.5 | Rivian breaks ground on its new assembly plant in Georgia and more. |
| 0:49.6 | Music What's happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is episode 529 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, which comes at you every week, |
| 0:57.0 | every Sunday, more specifically at 9 a.m. Eastern, 6 a.m. Pacific. This one is publishing on |
| 1:02.4 | September 21st, 2025. I'm recording it as usual on Friday evening here in this case on |
| 1:10.1 | September 19th. And in between those two days, |
| 1:14.6 | my birthday. I will be turning 45 this weekend. Of course, it'll be the past for most of you |
| 1:20.3 | when you hear this. And so the birthday weekend is underway. This is the last thing that I |
| 1:26.4 | need to get done before I can enjoy a nice birthday |
| 1:29.5 | weekend. We're not really doing anything crazy. I'm going to go to a couple of restaurants, |
| 1:33.2 | one of our favorite restaurants, and then we're going to try a new place that I've had my |
| 1:38.3 | eye on as well. So that's really, I'm at the point in life where I don't need gifts. I just, just feed me and feed me and I'm |
| 1:46.9 | happy. So I hope you're having a wonderful day as you hear this. Today has been already super |
| 1:53.8 | fun for me here as I head into my birthday weekend. And not super fun, of course, is that the $7,500 federal EV tax credit is winding down here. |
| 2:07.3 | We're in the final, what, 10, nine days of it at this point. |
| 2:12.1 | So I hope lots of you are able to take advantage of it. |
| 2:15.4 | If this influenced your purchasing decision at all in terms of the timing of it, |
| 2:19.8 | I hope Tesla is able to deliver a ton of cars. We won't know for sure for another two episodes from now. |
| 2:28.1 | Then we'll have the production and delivery numbers for this critical Q3 in the final days of the federal tax credit. |
| 2:37.3 | But I wanted to get your predictions on record. |
| 2:40.5 | So this week's Patreon poll, which you can vote on every week, totally for free. |
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