On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Elon Musk goes on a holiday

tweet storm and reveals some interesting new information, including confirmation of a Tesla pickup truck

complete with a big new idea.

Plus, my 2018 predictions for Tesla

an Easter egg that existing Tesla owners won't want to miss and more. Happy New Year friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you alongside of course

Daisy the boxer puppy who is presently gnawing on what is that over that is an

actual small block of wood yeah she she just she has to have her teeth and mouth on something all the time,

but it's just that point in her development as a five-month-old puppy. So good to be with you.

We say goodbye to 2017 here. I suspect most of you are probably going to listen to this in 2018,

but it is being recorded here on the afternoon of December 29th, and it will be posted for everybody on the 31st,

the usual Sunday at 9 a.m. Eastern time but so either you know happy new year either way it applies

either way this is going to be a really fun 2018 I want to talk a lot more

about that a little bit later in the podcast I've got some sexy predictions S3 x, some Tesla predictions for 2018.

I will say, I mean, before I get to that,

it really will, though, be the year of the model three.

I mean, 2018 is the year that the entire company really existed to get to.

I mean yes the model 3 was launched in 2017 and delivered in some quantity but really 2018 is is when when everything

really starts and I think when everything is really going to change and you know

you're going to start seeing them all over the place in 2018 no matter where you live

So I just think 2018 is going to be the year that things really start to change for the better because of the model three in the automotive world.

So first up got some news to get to this week.

Thankfully, I have to say I have to hat tip to Elon Musk, he bailed me out because I expected this was going to be a very, very slow news week.

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