Episode 13: Consumer Reports Changes Its Mind
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Consumer Reports lays the smack down on the Model S, Autopilot gets set to evolve, Stephen Colbert makes TV love to Tesla, Elon tweets a bunch of little nuggets, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.8 | Consumer Reports lays the Smackdown on the Model S. |
| 0:06.9 | Auto Pilot gets set to evolve. |
| 0:08.9 | Stephen Colbert makes TV love to Tesla and much more. Here comes the high heat. Welcome to Ride The Lightning, the Tesla Motor's Official Podcast, Episode 13 for October 25, 2015. |
| 0:36.0 | My name is Ryan McCaffrey. |
| 0:37.1 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:38.1 | I want to start the show with a follow-up to last week. |
| 0:41.2 | I was talking last week about custom license plates, vanity license plates, |
| 0:44.8 | they amuse me, I love them. I've always been, they've always appealed to me as a fun thing. |
| 0:49.8 | Got a few fun suggestions or Tesla related plates that people already have. got a He's got insane D which I like. |
| 1:04.0 | Van on Twitter wrote in with on E noting the dual meeting. |
| 1:09.0 | I actually think that you could even stretch that to three meetings. |
| 1:12.0 | You've got E for electricity. could even say on e, |
| 1:13.0 | you've got e for electricity, |
| 1:14.9 | you've got e for ecstasy, and you've got, |
| 1:18.0 | you could even say on e meaning fuel empty |
| 1:21.1 | because you don't need gasoline. You could even stretch it to that too, so I like that one. |
| 1:25.0 | And then Gabriel Grasso Grasso in Las Vegas wrote in with Unplugged UNPLGGD. |
| 1:31.0 | I like that one too,'s that's good stuff. |
| 1:33.0 | It'll be really fun to start seeing some of the model X license plates that get out there |
| 1:38.2 | shortly. It's good to see by the way the a lot of the signature apparently October 22nd this past week was a big day a lot |
| 1:47.4 | of the signature reservation holders who've configured got their VIN numbers so that's a huge next step in getting cars into people's hands |
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