Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning the Tesla Motors unofficial podcast,

Porch throws its hat in the EV game, maybe kind of sorta.

The recently set record for furthest distance traveled on a single charge is shattered, and the

Model X second row seat mystery, part of it may finally be solved.

To infinity and beyond. Greetings and salutations friends, welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors

unofficial podcast, episode 8 for September 20th, 2015.

Happy birthday to me.

I am 35 years old today.

Officially mid-30s, early 30s are over, 20s are long gone.

I'm feeling good, looking forward to a good day today.

I'm actually thrilled to be doing the show today.

We're up to episode 8.

I am just having a blast doing this. Thank you again all so much for

for joining me. I want to share a couple of quick stories with you. The first is

I tell you what, remember last week's show I was telling you I needed a ton of repairs on my

my car which is a gas-powered car a nine and a half year old infinity at this point well I went

and had them done I'd, I mentioned I found a really, really awesome guy who is way cheaper than the dealer and also just way more, has way more attention to detail. He was putting in better parts you know for things that needed to be done

Just a fantastic guy I was really impressed with him but I'll tell you what when I got there and I was we got the car right up on the lift

and just started talking to him for a while before I before I headed off and left him

alone to work I really I had this genuine realization because you know I I don't get to see my car or any car up on a lift very often it's just not part of my daily routine and I really just looking up at my own car up above me on a lift and just seeing all of the

pipes, all of the fluids, we were draining the rear differential, the coolant, the clutch fluid, all the power steering, all this stuff.

And I really, I just looked up at it and saw the sort of little bits of rust here and

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