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

Model 3 quietly gets a higher efficiency rating from the EPA.

Model S gets a new wheel option.

More Model 3 display cars hit Tesla showrooms on the coasts and more. Oh, Welcome friends I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning

the Tesla unofficial podcast episode number 129 for January 21st 2018. I'm joined as always by Daisy the

boxer puppy who is currently gnawing away on the floor on a bully stick.

Mm processed meat shoved into stick form.

Anyway, I wanted to get kicked off this week with a follow-up from the

Headliner thing last week.

I heard from a whole bunch of people in fact I

think last week I told you that I got more calls in a week than I ever had before

which was awesome well this week I got even more breaking the record again which

is fantastic. A number of them were about the headliner situation and a number of

the more in. So I wanted to just open by saying that I went and saw

the model 3 on display at the Stanford Shopping Center which is about a half hour's

drive from where I'm at, and that car, as I believe

I might have mentioned last week, has the textile headliner, the new stuff in it.

And here's what I think. Here's what I think. So I do think it looks

better in person than it does in the pictures. You know these up close pictures

and just it just it's better with in real life than it is in a picture.

It's not quite as cheap looking as I initially feared,

but that being said, I do also think that it is a downgrade over the Al-Kantara like

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