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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 138: Model 3's First New Option Is...

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Model 3 20-inch wheels officially go on sale, a big Autopilot update has Tesla owners filled with glee, the Tesla Semi goes on tour, Canadian pricing is revealed, and much 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 model 3's 20 inch wheels

0:05.5

officially go on sale a big autopilot update has Tesla owners filled with glee the Tesla

0:12.3

semi goes out on tour and much more. Oh, Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you as always for Ride the Lightning. It is the

0:39.8

Tesla unofficial podcast for March 25th, 2018, surging towards the end of Q1.

0:46.5

End that production ramp on Model 3.

0:48.8

It's episode number 138 to my left, as usual, the sleeping Daisy the Boxer puppy and there's plenty to get to

0:56.5

this week I wanted to start with just a quick little mini apology if you do not

1:01.4

hear your call this week, if you called in right towards the end of the week,

1:06.2

I've had a super crazy week at work with the game developers conference in town here in San Francisco,

1:12.4

which just

1:13.2

tightens up schedules quite a bit plus two game reviews anyway I'm not making

1:17.5

excuses just saying that I kind of had to lock the the caller section the hotline section of the show a little earlier,

1:25.0

about a day earlier than I would like.

1:26.3

So if you called in, look for your call either next week or possibly on the monthly bonus

1:32.3

show on Patreon. Anyway lots to cover this week and

1:35.8

the first story just so I wanted it this one's for me and hopefully some of you

1:40.5

as well but I wanted to kick off with the model three's 20 inch wheels, you

1:46.4

guys have heard me talk about. Most of you probably aren't interested in them and

1:50.0

that's perfectly understandable.

1:52.9

Logically, they don't make a ton of sense.

1:55.9

They're, you know, they're going to be more expensive.

1:58.6

They're going to have more expensive tires.

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