Episode 136: Goodyear Working on a Better Tesla Tire
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Goodyear introduces a new tire that's specifically aimed at electric cars, Elon Musk drops a few little updates regarding car software on Twitter, Tesla puts their Semi trucks to the test, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, A Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, Goodyear introduces a new tire that's specifically aimed at electric cars. |
| 0:08.0 | Elon Musk drops a few little updates regarding car software on Twitter. |
| 0:12.0 | Tesla puts their semi- to the test and more. Oh, Welcome friends. It is Ride the Lightning |
| 0:38.1 | the Tesla unofficial podcast episode number 136 for March 11th 2018. I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left is the |
| 0:46.2 | sleeping peacefully puppy over there Daisy the boxer and it's been a very steady week of Tesla News pretty much as usual. |
| 0:54.7 | It thought it might be kind of slow, but it ended up being a rather steady week. |
| 0:58.6 | Elon Musk was active on Twitter this week, which he, you know, he kind of goes hot and cold with it but not a lot of his |
| 1:05.2 | tweets were Tesla related I will update you on what he did say about Tesla on Twitter in a minute |
| 1:12.3 | but but first I wanted to tell you that I keep tweeting |
| 1:17.0 | him, I am trying, I keep tweeting Elon Musk to try and get an update on both model three performance version and what's going on with |
| 1:26.4 | smart air suspension. No luck yet. I've tried my I told you my strategy is well that I've had success with anyway even though it's still |
| 1:35.6 | kind of a needle in a haystack but the way to best improve your odds of |
| 1:39.8 | getting him to notice and perhaps respond to your tweet is to wait until he's just |
| 1:45.4 | tweeted so that you know that he's probably still online and there's a decent |
| 1:50.1 | chance he might look at his mentions and see your tweet and maybe reply to you but no such luck for me this |
| 1:55.6 | week I will keep at it. First up in the news this week good year of course the |
| 2:01.3 | long-running tire company they have announced a new tire specifically |
| 2:06.6 | aimed at the electric vehicle market, which is rather interesting. |
| 2:10.8 | Unfortunately, the Electra story on this didn't identify the name of the Goodyear |
| 2:16.7 | representative that I'm going to have tell you about it here, nor did the video that |
| 2:21.6 | was posted either. But regardless regardless I figured it would be |
| 2:24.5 | less be best rather to let a good year rep explain it to you directly so here is a |
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