Episode 123: Federal EV Tax Incentive Update + Ben Sullins (TeslaCon) Interview
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
An update on the federal electric vehicle tax credit situation, Tesla wins a big dealer battle in Missouri, an interview with TeslaCon organizer and 2020 Tesla Roadster prize winner Ben Sullins, and more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride, the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, an update on the federal electric vehicle tax credit situation. |
| 0:06.5 | Tesla wins a big dealer battle in Missouri, an interview with Tesla-Con organizer in 2020 Tesla Roadster Prize winner Ben Sullins and more. The Happy Holidays, Friends, I am Ryan McCaffrey, and this is Ride the Lightning, the unofficial Tesla |
| 0:41.6 | Podcast. It's episode number one 23 for December. the been a good week the holidays are approaching Daisy the boxer who snoozes next to me after a puppy playgroup |
| 0:57.0 | she lost three teeth today |
| 1:00.0 | three puppy teeth today |
| 1:02.0 | puppy playgroup slash dog park slash word play with another dog |
| 1:07.0 | appears to be a wonderful wonderful way to jar out loose teeth in your puppy. So that was a fun adventure today. Also I |
| 1:17.2 | happened to catch this week I was out walking Daisy and saw a model three |
| 1:22.1 | coming up the street one of the streets in my neighborhood as I was |
| 1:24.6 | walking Daisy up that same street so that was pretty cool I do happen to know that I've got at |
| 1:29.9 | least a couple of Tesla employees living in the neighborhood because I've met them before I've run |
| 1:35.1 | into them I've seen you know like they've either I've either spotted their Tesla |
| 1:39.2 | jackets and said hello or I have a Tesla jacket or they've said hello so who knows but you know |
| 1:44.9 | whether it's whether it's an employee delivery or just an existing Tesla owner |
| 1:49.0 | who may be sort of you know friend or or family member of a Tesla employee, but great to see them. |
| 1:57.0 | You know, hopefully the sightings are going to start to increase. |
| 2:00.0 | Certainly for me here in San Francisco, I, you you know I already get reports from friends |
| 2:04.6 | and and fellow you know Tesla community members that they are becoming more and more of a common site down in |
| 2:11.1 | Palo Alto specifically and obviously over near the factory in Fremont as well. |
| 2:16.9 | So this is the month. It is happening. I want to tell you real quick I'm going to mention TeslaCon. I mentioned this last week. |
| 2:25.0 | In fact the organizer Ben Sullins who runs the TeslaNomics YouTube channel that is his |
| 2:32.0 | sort of niche in the Tesla community he is here for an interview |
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