Episode 118: Model 3 Deliveries Delayed + Q3 Earnings Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
A Gigafactory bottleneck causes delays for most Model 3 reservations, the $7500 federal tax credit may be running out sooner than any of us would have guessed, Elon's comments from the Q3 earnings call, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, a gigafactory |
| 0:04.2 | bottleneck causes delays for most model three reservations. |
| 0:08.0 | Plus, the $7,500 federal tax credit for the United States may be running out sooner than any of us would have guessed, |
| 0:14.6 | Elon's comments from the Q3 earnings call, and much more. Oh, Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey with you as always for Ride the Lightning the Tesla Motors |
| 0:42.8 | unofficial podcast it's episode number 118 for November 5th 2017 there is so |
| 0:50.1 | much to get to this week as Daisy the boxer puppy sleeps on the couch next to me. |
| 0:56.0 | But first I actually wanted to get a quick item of housekeeping out of the way. |
| 1:00.4 | And that is an apology for me to you because your trust is the most important thing. |
| 1:09.8 | Without that, none of you would listen. none of you would be here and I would be talking to the wall. |
| 1:17.2 | And so I wanted to apologize and sort of issue a retraction for the National Humane Society raffle, the Tesla Raffle ad that I ran last week. |
| 1:27.7 | Now, they had reached out to me, it all seemed good, but it turns out I heard from several of you. |
| 1:37.2 | There's no proof that it's a scam, that it's anything, you know, other than what what it what it claims exactly to be |
| 1:45.5 | But the fact that I heard from several of you and followed a couple of links that that a multiple folks sent me a Reddit thread another thing it was enough to go well you |
| 1:56.5 | know what even if there's nothing here this is not it's not worth violating the trust of my audience because the trust of my |
| 2:06.6 | audience is all I have without that there's no podcast I'm just talking to a wall. |
| 2:14.0 | And I've said over and over, you've heard me say a million times, |
| 2:17.2 | I value your time and the fact that you trust me |
| 2:22.2 | with an hour of your week and to fill you in on the week's |
| 2:26.9 | Tesla happening. So that is the most important thing and that is not worth a little bit of of sponsorship money you know to run an ad on a on a |
| 2:36.8 | podcast if the thing might not be what the what the you know seller as it were in this case claims it is and so I did in fact reach out to the |
| 2:50.0 | National Humane Society people I sent them the same links you guys sent me, you know, |
| 2:55.4 | predictably and understandably they denied any wrongdoing anything, but and |
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