Episode 94: Free Unlimited Supercharging Is Back...Sort Of
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Free unlimited lifetime Supercharging is back...kind of, a longtime business colleague gives insight into what it's like to work for Elon Musk, Uber tried to team up with Tesla on self-driving cars, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.8 | Free Unlimited Lifetime Supercharging is back, |
| 0:07.1 | kind of. |
| 0:08.4 | A long-time business colleague gives insight into what it's like to work for Elon Musk, |
| 0:13.0 | Uber tried to team up with Tesla on self-driving cars and more. Oh, Hey everybody welcome to the 94th episode of Ride the Lightning the |
| 0:41.2 | Tesla Motors unofficial podcast for May 21st, 2017. |
| 0:45.0 | I am Brian McCaffrey and I am happy to be here with you guys. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm back from Los Angeles where I was actually a stone's throw from Elon Musk. |
| 0:55.0 | I was hoping, yeah, maybe, you never know, maybe, you never know if you might catch a passing glimpse. |
| 1:00.0 | Obviously, the chances are low, but no, I was was down I was actually in Hawthorne in LA for an event on |
| 1:07.4 | Thursday I believe yeah Thursday as the popular video game destiny which a lot of you might be familiar with, it's from the studio that created HALO, they were showing off Destiny 2 for the first time and they rented out a huge hangar space in Hawthorne at the jet center there. |
| 1:27.4 | And sure enough, like pulling in off the freeway, you could see the Tesla Design Studio |
| 1:32.3 | hangar, because it's written Tesla is written in giant |
| 1:36.0 | letters on the on the roof of it and then of course SpaceX is right next door |
| 1:40.0 | to the Hawthorne Design Center as well. |
| 1:43.4 | So right in Elon Musk's orbit, |
| 1:46.0 | but sadly, no encounters, |
| 1:48.8 | no, or no seeing him drive into work |
| 1:51.5 | in his, I believe he drives a black model S, but still cool to be right there and had a good time at the event. |
| 2:00.0 | But it's good to be home and good to be back with you for another episode. |
| 2:04.4 | Not the most busy news week this week, but a few interesting stories. |
| 2:09.3 | I actually wanted to start with the update to the referral program. |
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