Episode 560: Tesla Q1 Earnings: HW3 Retrofit Update, v14 Lite Release Date, and More!
4/26/20261 hr 39 min
Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for Q1 2026, and we got a big update on Tesla's plan to upgrade the Hardware 3 cars for people that paid for FSD. Plus: we now have a better idea of when to expect the upcoming v14 "Lite" release for HW3 and the next-gen Roadster reveal, and more! Watch Jason Cammisa's Model S video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnJzP0TlCk
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First 90 secondsRyan McCaffrey· Host0:00
On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla held its quarterly earnings call for Q1 2026, and we got a big update on Tesla's plan to upgrade the Hardware 3 cars for people that paid for FSD. Plus, we now have a better idea of when to expect the upcoming V14 light release for Hardware 3, and the next-gen roads to reveal, and more. [rock music] What's happening, friends? Alongside Daisy the Boxer, my name's Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to episode 560 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla and EV podcast. This one is publishing on April 26th, 2026, and I start here this week. Apropos of nothing, this week's Patreon poll question was a wide open evergreen one. I wanted to get the poll question up early in the week because the Tesla earnings call was this week, and that sort of compresses my, my production week for Ride the Lightning. So I wanted to just get a question out there to you early, so there wasn't really anything in the news to tie it to. So I just thought, "Okay, you know