Episode 104: Model 3 Delivery Event Reactions and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This is it: Model 3 is launched! I was at the Tesla Factory for the Model 3 Delivery Event, and I want to tell you all about it. Specs, pricing, my test ride reaction, and more – including special guest co-host Trevor Page of Model 3 Owners Club!
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| 0:00.0 | On this is it, the big one, I was at the Tesla |
| 0:06.0 | factory for the model three delivery event and I want to tell you all about it. |
| 0:09.6 | Here we go. What's happening, friends? Welcome to the 104th edition, one of the biggest and most special editions of Ride the July 30th, 2017, aka Model 3, the year 1, episode 1 a.m. after Model 3 is officially released. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey and what makes this episode |
| 0:55.7 | particularly special is not only is the Model 3 real |
| 0:58.6 | and it's out and it's in the wild. |
| 1:00.2 | But I'm joined by a friend. |
| 1:01.4 | I've brought a special guest with me. He is in town, you fellow model three super fans probably know him from the model three owners club website and his YouTube channel. Trevor Page. |
| 1:12.6 | Hey folks. |
| 1:13.5 | Good to see you. |
| 1:14.3 | You're in town, you're spending some time |
| 1:16.8 | in the wake of the model three event. |
| 1:18.8 | You're going to come all the way to San Francisco. |
| 1:20.8 | Why not make a little vacation out of it? Well, that's the deal. I told my wife if we got an invite that we make a vacation of it |
| 1:27.6 | San Francisco is always a place we wanted to come and we're here and it's just I really appreciate you having me on the show. |
| 1:34.2 | Oh it's I've been following you since day one. |
| 1:36.3 | I know yeah we you and I spoke on the phone a long long time ago and yeah it's been it's been a heck of a journey it's been a heck of a journey and |
| 1:44.8 | here we are so you would uh who better to help me make sense of the of everything that went on at the |
| 1:50.9 | model three event last night and the information that |
| 1:53.8 | followed then you so I appreciate you being here and and let's just start I mean the |
| 1:58.9 | event it was certainly having been to been fortunate enough to be at a few of these now. |
| 2:04.6 | Tesla's clearly learned a lot of lessons. |
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