Episode 115: Model 3 Scalpers, Tesla Sells Car Insurance + More!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
A few early Model 3 owners are trying their luck at selling their cars for a huge profit, an update on the improvements being made to Model 3 as production ramps up, Tesla starts selling their own car insurance, and much more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning and the Tesla unofficial podcast, a few early model 3 owners are trying their luck at selling their cars for a huge profit. |
| 0:09.3 | An update on the improvements being made to model three as production ramps up, |
| 0:13.3 | Tesla starts selling their own car insurance and more. Oh, Welcome everybody to the 115th edition of the Unofficial Tesla Podcast, otherwise Known as Ride the Lightning. It is October 15th, |
| 0:46.1 | 2017. I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Good to be with you. I am joined by a now snoozing Daisy |
| 0:52.1 | the Boxer puppy. She is on the couch. If you probably |
| 0:55.8 | you probably did hear her last week being crazy being a puppy running around doing |
| 1:00.4 | chewing things and squeaking toys and all kinds of stuff that ended about 10 minutes ago |
| 1:05.8 | just before I recorded so she's snoozing on the couch now but she is doing great |
| 1:10.8 | really appreciate everybody's kind words about the new pup. |
| 1:15.2 | Potty training, it's been a bit bumpy, that's been a challenge, but I expected that. |
| 1:21.2 | That's how it goes with these little guys. So we're working on it, we're getting there. She's doing great. We've got our first puppy playgroup this weekend to get her out and socialize her in a sort of formal capacity. Then once he has all of |
| 1:34.5 | her shots in about a month or so we'll get into sort of proper puppy |
| 1:39.3 | kindergarten and get the real training going. |
| 1:43.2 | Before I start the show this week, I wanted to send out my best to all of the folks affected |
| 1:48.3 | by the California wildfires up and down the state. California, I do happen to know that my podcast provider gives |
| 1:57.0 | me a pretty good batch of metrics, including a breakdown of where people listen from where the downloads are coming from and I do know that California is |
| 2:07.2 | The my number one territory as it were state or country or anything else. |
| 2:13.0 | So a lot of you out there in California, |
| 2:15.6 | if you have been affected by these California wildfires, |
| 2:18.9 | my heart goes out to you and your family. |
| 2:21.0 | I hope most importantly, you and your family are okay, hope your home is okay. |
| 2:25.2 | It is bad out there. In fact, it's bad here in San Francisco in the sense of air quality despite the fact that there is an actual bay |
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