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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 131: Rethinking the Performance Model 3

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The referral program continues for another quarter but with an interesting twist, I've got some new thoughts on the Performance Model 3, Tesla's autonomous driving progress is being questioned after a new California DMV report, Europeans may get a chance to see the Model 3 soon, 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 the referral program

0:05.0

continues for another quarter but with an interesting new twist.

0:09.0

Plus, Tesla's autonomous driving progress is being questioned after a new California DMV report,

0:15.6

Europeans may get a chance to see the model three pretty soon and more. The Welcome, I am Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning the

0:44.1

Tesla unofficial podcast episode number 131. That's a palindrome by the way.

0:49.2

For February 4th 2018, Daisy the Puppy is to my left and this week well I have to say

0:57.3

I really thought this was going to be a big juicy show because there was supposed to be some big news to talk about with Tesla on this

1:08.1

week's show. You see I was tipped off to something big, but it didn't happen at the time that I was told it was going to happen,

1:18.8

and it still hasn't happened yet as of my recording here at 9.58 p.m. on Friday night. So I do trust my source on this and

1:29.2

the timing when you when it does happen. I mean the timing it'll make sense you got the Q4

1:35.2

earnings call coming up next week so I do expect some significant Tesla news to

1:42.0

drop between now and then based on what I was told.

1:45.7

Now maybe it's all a ruse, who knows, but I don't think so.

1:50.7

Stay tuned for, put it this way, stay tuned for next for next week show what you were going to do anyway

1:55.2

because next week show I want to remind you is a it's an earnings call show which means you know

2:01.9

those are the what I think are some of the most

2:04.1

fun episodes they're the most fun for me to make I hope they're fun for you to

2:08.4

listen to they they take way longer to make but I always I'm always super proud of how they come out because it's all the best

2:15.2

Elon clips and John McNeil and Depok and everybody on the Tesla executive team, all the best

2:22.0

quotes, sound bites, piped in on the show for you

2:26.2

with thoughts and analysis. So I suspect that if this thing happens that I

2:32.4

thought was already going to happen, if that if this thing happens that I thought was already going to happen

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