Episode 536: Tesla Shareholder Meeting Recap, Highlights, and Analysis (2025)
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting for 2025, and there's a lot to talk about, from the record-breaking CEO compensation package to the next markets for Robotaxi to a re-reveal date for the next-generation Tesla Roadster and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla held its annual |
| 0:05.4 | shareholder meeting for 2025, and there's a lot to talk about, from the record-breaking CEO |
| 0:11.5 | compensation package to the next markets for Robotaxi to a re-reveal date for the next generation |
| 0:18.1 | Tesla Roadster and so much more. |
| 0:20.4 | ... date for the next generation Tesla Roadster and so much more. What's happening, friends? |
| 0:41.6 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey, joining you alongside Daisy the Boxer to my left and Lily the Silly |
| 0:46.5 | Labrador puppy at my feet. |
| 0:48.8 | This is Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and Evie podcast, episode 53636 publishing on November 9th, 2025. |
| 0:58.6 | Hope all of you are doing well. |
| 1:00.7 | It has been a very busy Tesla week for me because the, of course, this episode is all |
| 1:06.7 | about the shareholder meeting, which didn't happen until Thursday. |
| 1:11.1 | So that meant instead of having a week to prepare the podcast, I had about a day. |
| 1:16.3 | So it's a, it's a sprint, but it's a fun one. |
| 1:20.3 | Lots to talk about on this week's episode. |
| 1:22.5 | And I'll get to all of that very soon. |
| 1:24.6 | But first, of course, the big Thanksgiving holiday weekend is coming up here |
| 1:29.3 | in the United States, and it marks the official kickoff of the holiday season, which seems |
| 1:35.6 | weird to think about it snuck up on us already. Or at least, I feel like it snuck up on me. I feel |
| 1:40.9 | like it should still be summer. Anyway, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is also a |
| 1:46.6 | traditionally very busy travel weekend. So just for fun in the spirit of that, I made this week's |
| 1:53.8 | Patreon poll about if and how you plan to use your Tesla over the Thanksgiving weekend. |
| 2:02.3 | And thank you to the 274 folks that have voted in this. |
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