Episode 565: A Tesla-SpaceX Merger? What Would it Mean for Tesla Vehicles?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Rumblings of a Tesla-SpaceX merger have begun, Tesla's new camera-cleaning patent resembles the human eye, Ferrari fully unveils the Luce EV and gets, uh...quite the public reaction, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, rumblings of a Tesla SpaceX merger have begun. |
| 0:08.6 | Tesla's new camera cleaning patent resembles the human eye. |
| 0:13.1 | Ferrari fully unveils the Luce EV and gets quite the public reaction and more. |
| 0:19.2 | The movie. quite the public reaction and more. What's happening, friends? |
| 0:40.9 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla and EV podcast for May 31st, 2026. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm recording on Friday evening, May 29th. |
| 0:50.2 | This is episode 565. |
| 0:53.8 | That's a palindrome, and it's always fun to acknowledge those every, what, 11 episodes, I guess. |
| 0:59.4 | I want to start this episode by saying thank you to so many of you for sending me kind emails, |
| 1:06.7 | kind messages regarding the Lars and Franz interview on last week's podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm so glad so many of you enjoyed it. |
| 1:15.3 | I had such a great time conducting that interview from inside an air-conditioned Model X in the |
| 1:22.4 | middle of a pretty toasty afternoon at the Fremont factory. |
| 1:26.8 | It was such a treat to get to do that. And again, |
| 1:29.5 | like I said last week, it's a privilege, right? I recognize fully that I'm on a very, very short list |
| 1:37.1 | of people that really have ever gotten to sit down with those guys. And I do take it seriously. |
| 1:43.2 | And I try to try to prepare well and conduct a good |
| 1:47.1 | interview and I thought we had a great conversation and I'm so glad that so many of you |
| 1:51.2 | reached out to meet it to tell me that you thought so as well now amidst the farewell celebration |
| 1:58.0 | for the model S and Model X last week. |
| 2:05.8 | Tesla did unfortunately sneak out a little bit of bad news last week, |
| 2:11.9 | and that is price increases on the premium trims of the Model Y. |
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