Episode 65: Tesla Is Profitable + Solar Roof
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Tesla's big Q3 financial results, Consumer Reports' latest recommendations on the S and X, Tesla's new solar products, and much more highlighted one of the busiest weeks in Tesla history.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, it was one of the busiest |
| 0:04.8 | weeks in Tesla history with Tesla's big Q3 financial results, consumer reports, |
| 0:10.8 | his latest recommendations on the S&X, Tesla's new solar products, and much more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | happening, friends? |
| 0:38.0 | To Ride the Lightning, it is the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast for October 30th, 2016. |
| 0:43.6 | My name is Ryan McCaffrey with a very relaxed Maggie the Boxer as usual. |
| 0:48.1 | Thank you so much for joining me wherever and whenever you are listening. |
| 0:52.6 | As you already know from looking at the file of this week's episode, |
| 0:58.9 | it's probably one of, if not the longest episodes ever. |
| 1:03.0 | I don't know yet because I'm still sitting here just starting to record it. |
| 1:07.0 | But my goodness is there's so much to get through this week. |
| 1:10.0 | I sat in on, well, I sat and listened to two Tesla presentations this week, recording |
| 1:17.7 | them and taking notes as Maggie the Boxer chugs chugs some water in the background |
| 1:21.8 | there. |
| 1:23.4 | There was Consumer Reports, had some Tesla status updates this week on their side. There was, and then of course yeah the the second event this the big |
| 1:36.0 | solar city Tesla product unveil plus you know I skipped the phone calls last week, which in hindsight, I'm kind of happy I did because it ended up being over an hour show just going through all of Elon's comments and just analyzing the self-driving hardware stuff, |
| 1:54.8 | hardware too, but as a result not only were there a bunch of good phone calls from |
| 2:00.4 | last week that I didn't get to. But you all kindly responded to my call to |
| 2:07.1 | call in and there were over two dozen phone calls and almost every single one of them is excellent. |
| 2:13.7 | That's what I've said that before. |
| 2:15.3 | You guys don't, fortunately, you don't call and waste my time or your time. |
| 2:18.9 | There are good calls that make good points points ask good questions. |
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