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

Model 3 is a finalist for Motor Trend's Covered Car of the Year Award but does not win,

but we do get some good news out of it.

Plus, a couple new Tesla Semi updates, good news on the Model 3 battery production

front, news on TeslaCon and more. The Welcome friends. It is Ride the Lightning Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast episode number

one twenty two for December third 2017 and December means that a decent

number of you out there are going to be getting your model 3s this month.

How exciting is that? That is great. Also you're going to get the tax credit no matter what.

Still no update on what is happening with the tax credit although supposedly that

budget was getting voted on tonight as I'm recording it 10 19 p.m. it's Pacific time here on Friday, December 1st.

So we'll see hopefully, I guess by next week's show, I'll probably have some sort of update

on what's going on with the tax credit but in any

case it is good to be back here I had a wonderful Thanksgiving vacation to the

beach I cannot complain. My wife's brother, my brother-in-law and his family

kindly took us as well as my mother and father-in-law with them on this trip and we all had a really

really great time away from home on a nice spot to spend Thanksgiving

together so I'm very grateful for that although it was my first time

away from Daisy so I was kind I was pretty worried before I left like oh man how she going gonna go we just sort of started to turn the

corner on potty training and just regular training we've been getting going on

we're in the middle of a training class and I thought oh she'll probably regress a

little bit and pee in the house a bunch for the the

house sitter that was staying with her a friend of mine but she did very well she

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