Episode 05: Breaking Records and Review Scales
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week on the world's #1 Tesla podcast: Tesla adds another high-profile award to its Model S trophy case, a Tesla superfan (not me) breaks the world record for furthest distance traveled on a single charge in an electric vehicle, Elon Musk heads to late night television, and I take your phone calls. If you'd like to call into the show, the toll-free number is 1-800-606-0697, invitation number 15469.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, Tesla adds another high-profile award to its model S trophy case. |
| 0:10.0 | A Tesla super-fan, not me, breaks the world record for further distance traveled on a single |
| 0:15.2 | charge and an electric vehicle. Elon Musk heads to late night television and I take your phone calls. |
| 0:21.7 | It's one small podcast for man, one afternoon, good evening, pick whichever one applies to you. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm your host, Ryan McCaffrey. welcome to episode 5 for August 30th |
| 0:55.6 | 2015 closing out the month of August so we get into the final hours the |
| 1:01.6 | 11th hour of the deadline for when we're, we've been told again and again and |
| 1:07.0 | again that Model X deliveries will start. |
| 1:11.2 | Before we start the show, I wanted to share a fun little anecdote |
| 1:13.7 | something that happened to me this week that's Tesla related from the file this in the |
| 1:17.6 | you don't see that every day at least in the United States Department. |
| 1:22.6 | I was walking my dog through the neighborhood, not an unusual occurrence, |
| 1:26.1 | when I spotted a P85, excuse me, a model S parked on the street. |
| 1:30.4 | Also, not an uncommon occurrence, especially in the Bay Area. |
| 1:34.0 | So because I'm completely out of my mind and completely Tesla obsessed, |
| 1:39.0 | I went over to go look at it because even though I've driven the car, I've looked the car over top |
| 1:44.6 | to bottom back to front, I've, heck I've had it for three days at a time twice for the reviews that |
| 1:50.9 | I did for I. GN.. I still I'm always just curious what that person picked like |
| 1:56.6 | oh is it a is it a 60 is it an 85 is it a p.85 d maybe is it maybe I'll see my first P90D with ludicrous mode? |
| 2:06.0 | I'm like, oh, what interior? |
| 2:08.0 | I'm always just curious what people chose for their model S. |
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