Episode 537: Apple CarPlay Reportedly Coming to Teslas
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In a surprise, Tesla is reportedly working on adding Apple CarPlay to its vehicles. Plus: Tesla sweeps the global EV sales charts for September, Ford CEO Jim Farley says his company was "shocked" when they took apart a Tesla Model 3, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, in a big surprise, Tesla is reportedly working on adding Apple CarPlay to its vehicles. |
| 0:11.6 | Plus, Tesla sweeps the global EV sales charts for September. Ford CEO Jim Farley says his company was shocked when they took apart a Tesla Model 3 and more. What's happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you, as I always do every Sunday at 9am Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific for another episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast. This one is releasing on November |
| 0:55.9 | 16, 2025. It's episode 537. To my left, looking calmly out the window is Daisy the Boxer. |
| 1:05.7 | And chewing on a toy that might start squeaking at some point is Lily the silly Labrador puppy. And I want to |
| 1:12.7 | apologize to all of you up front this week. If I sound a little tired or low energy, it's |
| 1:19.9 | Lily the Labrador's fault because the poor dog, actually I feel really bad for her. She ate |
| 1:24.5 | something yesterday and ended up up in the middle of the night with an unfortunate |
| 1:31.5 | situation in her crate that required immediate attention. Let me just phrase it that way. |
| 1:36.5 | So I was up from like 3.30 to 4 a.m. this morning and I'm starting to feel it now. Like I was |
| 1:42.1 | able to get through the workday okay. But now, now I'm starting to run out of, run out of fuel and I'm ready for bed. But I've got a very |
| 1:51.4 | chalkful of action episode here of Ride the Lightning for you first. I'm going to start |
| 1:57.1 | with this one. This was a bit of a surprise this week. Maybe not so much in isolation, |
| 2:02.1 | but for the story that will immediately follow it together. They are a little bit surprising. |
| 2:07.4 | So this first one is that the cybertruck program manager at Tesla, who was also the Model 3 |
| 2:14.4 | program manager, has departed Tesla. His name is Sedant Awasti. If I'm pronouncing that |
| 2:21.6 | correctly, I hope I've got that correct. And he posted on X, saying, I recently made one of the |
| 2:27.4 | hardest decisions of my life to leave Tesla after an incredible run. Eight years ago, when I started as an intern, I never dreamed I'd one day have the opportunity |
| 2:38.4 | to lead the cybertruck program and bring it to reality. |
| 2:42.5 | It's been an absolute privilege filled with mostly high-intensity days working alongside talented, |
| 2:48.9 | driven, and truly rock-star colleagues across Tesla. I want to extend a |
| 2:53.8 | huge thanks to Elon, all Tesla leaders past and present, mentors, and our amazing customers, |
| 3:01.1 | huge shout out in parentheses, who fueled my drive and kept me pushing forward through it all. |
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