A Tesla Beginner's Guide: Buying and Owning Model 3, Model S, or Model X
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
New to the world of Tesla? Hopefully this podcast will help answer all of your questions and inform you with advice for ordering the car, preparing for delivery, taking delivery, and ownership. Here are the topics covered, with the time codes listed in case you'd like to skip to a particular section:
0:00 - 0. Introduction
5:08 - I. Tesla Car Overview
19:31 - II. Ordering
32:00 - III. Before Delivery
10:10 - IV. Taking Delivery
42:27 - V. Charging and Supercharging
49:33 - VI. Autopilot
57:51 - VII. Maintenance
1:01:24 - VIII. Cleaning and Detailing
1:09:12 - IX. Misc. Tips and Tricks
1:13:29 - X. Future Cars
1:19:23 - XI. Conclusion
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends my name is Ryan McCaffrey and if you're listening to this it means you have some sort of curiosity to some degree or another about buying and or owning a Tesla and so to tell you a little bit about me if you don't know me I host a |
| 0:15.3 | weekly Tesla podcast which I suppose you've sussed out by finding this in some |
| 0:19.5 | capacity but it's called Ride the Lightning. Tesla Motors unofficial podcast. |
| 0:24.1 | I do it every week. |
| 0:24.9 | New episodes come out every Sunday at 9 a.m. |
| 0:27.8 | Eastern Times, 6 a.m. Pacific. |
| 0:30.0 | And I cover that week's Tesla events, news and analysis and reactions. |
| 0:35.0 | And a listener of mine had a great idea recently and said, |
| 0:40.0 | hey Ryan, it'd be great for you to do basically like a beginner's guide to Tesla for people |
| 0:45.2 | that are new to it that have a lot of questions a lot of the sort of basic questions and I said |
| 0:50.4 | you know that's a wonderful idea and I have now decided I should do that so here |
| 0:55.8 | I am my goal here is to hopefully educate you I've got let's see I've broken this up into 11 total chapters, really 10 chapters and there's a conclusion plus this. |
| 1:08.0 | But 10 sort of chapters, and I want to put all the time codes for those as best I can in the description so you can skip around to wherever you want to go. |
| 1:17.0 | But a little background on me real quick before I get started and why I'm here doing this and sort of what qualifies me to sit here |
| 1:27.0 | and try and give some beginners advice about Tesla. |
| 1:30.8 | So I've been totally in love with Tesla for about nine years now and in that time I've gone |
| 1:37.5 | completely down the Tesla rabbit hole because I drove the original Tesla Roadster nine years ago in 2009 and it just |
| 1:46.6 | changed my it really changed my life I don't mean that in like a you know crazy |
| 1:50.4 | or but just it changed my perspective let me put it that way on on what |
| 1:55.2 | driving what cars can be and what the future of cars can look like and I followed |
| 1:59.7 | the company very closely ever since from the model S's introduction to the X to now the |
| 2:07.1 | model three and now I own I'm very very grateful and fortunate to own a performance model three. |
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