New Roadster Details, Model S Delivery Date, UK Rumors, Cybertruck vs. Ford F-150 Lightning (05.20.21)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
➤ Tesla’s Roadster just began being displayed at the Petersen Automotive Museum, unveiling some new details alongside Elon Musk tweets
➤ Tesla finally schedules delivery event for refreshed Model S
➤ Musk continues to tweet about Dogecoin
➤ UK factory rumors surface after reports of Musk visit
➤ Analysis of Ford’s all-electric F-150 Lightning with details published after the unveiling event
➤ Comparing the Ford F-150 Lightning to Tesla’s Cybertruck
➤ F-150 Lightning technical specs: https://ford.to/3bI0Xc9
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody Rob, now we're here and today we're gonna be talking about some kind of crazy |
| 0:11.0 | new details on the Tesla Roadster. |
| 0:13.2 | We also finally have an update on the Refresh Model S in terms of delivery timeline. |
| 0:17.2 | We'll take a closer look at the Ford F-150 Lightning unveiled last night now that we have |
| 0:21.2 | a little bit more details being able to process those overnight and we have a couple other |
| 0:24.7 | stories as well. |
| 0:26.3 | Let's take a look at the stock Tesla today finishing up 4.1% to $586, 78 cents. |
| 0:31.7 | That followed the NASDAQ also with a strong day up 1.8%. |
| 0:35.3 | Probably worth noting, Tesla having a great day despite the fact that Elon was tweeting |
| 0:38.8 | about cryptocurrency again today, so just a reminder that, hmm, maybe that's not what's caused |
| 0:43.9 | Tesla's stock to drop. |
| 0:45.2 | Alright, so let's get into the Roadster. |
| 0:47.1 | The Roadster starting yesterday has been on display at the Peterson Automotive Museum |
| 0:51.0 | in LA and once you know it on the display sign they actually broke some news on the |
| 0:55.7 | Tesla Roadster. |
| 0:56.7 | So this was shared out by Black Model 3 on Twitter, it says, quote, demonstrating the |
| 1:00.3 | versatility of electric power and adding extra distinction to the cars already high performance, |
| 1:04.7 | unannounced SpaceX package would outfit the Roadster with cold air rocket thrusters, |
| 1:09.2 | positioned at the rear, allowing for a 0-60 acceleration time of 1.1 seconds, a rate |
| 1:15.2 | largely unprecedented among modern road cars, end quote. |
| 1:19.0 | So not sure why they added largely unprecedented, I think they would have been safe to say completely |
| 1:22.9 | unprecedented there, since they do specify road cars, but anyway while we've obviously |
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