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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 109: Another New Model 3 Option Confirmed

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Smart Air Suspension gets confirmed for Model 3 -- with details, the 100kWh S and X get a price drop, Tesla may have a plan to put a dent in the aftermarket dash cam business, and more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:03.4

Smart Air Suspension gets confirmed as an option for Model 3,

0:07.1

and I've got some details on that.

0:09.1

The 100 kilowatt hour Model S and Model X's get a price drop.

0:13.6

Tesla may have a plan to put a dent in the aftermarket

0:16.8

Dash Cam business and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey, the host of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast.

0:44.2

This is episode 109 for September 3rd, 2017.

0:48.4

Happy Labor Day weekend to my USA listeners hear from a sweltering San Francisco.

0:54.6

An actual record high set today on,

0:58.2

as I record this on Friday evening,

1:00.6

104 degrees in San Francisco, which has simply never happened before.

1:05.7

It's very rare that it even approaches the 80s in the summer.

1:09.9

That's considered a heat wave.

1:11.6

It's a heck of a heck of a heat wave going on. So we are we are

1:16.0

weathering it as best we can. Nobody in San Francisco for the most part has

1:19.6

air conditioning because we don't really need it. Doors and windows are open and we are making do.

1:26.0

But I kind of appreciate the actual genuine feel of summer here

1:32.0

for a few days because normally San Francisco we have

1:35.0

the opposite of summer in the summer which would be winter I suppose but in any

1:40.3

case another busy week another good week of Tesla News, of which I am very grateful

1:46.9

to be able to say I played a direct part in this week.

1:51.3

I happen to catch, or I happened to see that Elon Musk had

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