On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast,

Model 3 gets an official release date.

Model S gets some serious performance upgrades.

South Australia partners with Tesla to transition to sustainable energy on a large scale and more. Oh, How are you friends? Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode number 101 of Ride the

Lightning the Tesla Motors unofficial podcast for July 9th, 2017.

And it is a milestone week for Tesla.

There's boy, a lot of cool stuff to get to where I was a little just

selfishly disappointed that my big

milestone for me,

for me, there wasn't really a lot going on

in the Tesla world

and I was like, oh man, I wanted my,

I wanted my episode 100 to be a real memorable one.

Looks like that might be 101, at least as far as Tesla is concerned.

Hopefully I'll make a good podcast out of it,

but I wanted to start by just noting that the red Tesla Roadster that I was more than happy to

foster for Joe Edgel is on its way to him now, loaded it onto the truck and it was really neat living with a roadster for a week.

I tell you when I got back in my car, which as I mentioned before, an 06 infinity G35

coup, it felt like I was driving an SUV after sitting so low in the roadster for the last week and you know

it's what I'll miss the most, the two things that I'll miss the most about the roadster.

Number one is definitely the performance, the acceleration, just that it never got old.

I was like I was audibly like not even giggling, cackling

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