Episode 137: Elon Speaks at SXSW + a Big Model S/X Upgrade
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk conducted a Q&A at South by Southwest and I've got all of the best Tesla-related sound clips from the event. Plus: Model S and X get a high-impact upgrade, Supercharger prices have been raised almost everywhere, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Elon Musk conducted a Q&A at South by Southwest and I've got all of the best Tesla related |
| 0:09.0 | sound clips from that event. |
| 0:10.5 | Plus, Model S and X get a very high impact upgrade for new orders, supercharger prices have |
| 0:17.3 | been raised almost everywhere and more. The Howdy friends? Welcome to Ride the Lightning. It is the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:43.4 | Podcast episode number 137 for March 18th 2018. I am Ryan McCaffrey and I am |
| 0:49.4 | joined of course as always by Daisy the Boxer Puppy who is currently sleeping atop what else a pile of |
| 0:55.8 | blankets she's found the softest comfiest spot and has plopped herself down right there |
| 1:00.9 | uh... she comforts me as i can just pet her as I do the podcast. It always helps. |
| 1:06.0 | Anyway, I wanted to start off with a quick show note, housekeeping note. I wanted to apologize to any of you who may have been affected by an audio issue last week. |
| 1:17.4 | It was when the audio clip from the Goodyear representative played. A number of folks reported to me that it just came |
| 1:24.8 | through as a garbled mess and I just have no clue how that happened because the source |
| 1:31.0 | file was fine, the Patreon player version was fine for the folks |
| 1:35.6 | that had early access. And then when it posted to the world on Sunday I went on to iTunes |
| 1:41.9 | and just played it from there and that was fine but |
| 1:44.7 | somehow some way it seemed to mess just that part up for some people I |
| 1:50.8 | didn't do anything differently from my usual production process. So I'm not sure if anybody |
| 1:55.9 | has an idea, any ideas on that. Feel free to email me. I have recorded what I think is a better version of it and I'll put that at the very end of |
| 2:05.2 | this week's show rather than play it again now just to save a minute in case you did |
| 2:10.1 | hear it fine last week. There's a ton of stuff to get to. I don't want to waste any time. |
| 2:15.6 | Other than one other quick housekeeping note, if anything happens big time news wise on Friday. |
| 2:23.2 | I apologize or if it happened I guess as you're listening to this I apologize for |
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