Episode 141: Model 3 Dual Motor Update + Model Y Update
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk made a lot of Tesla news this week, including giving a long-awaited update on the availability of Model 3's Dual Motor version and giving an interview on Model 3 production to CBS This Morning. Plus: a touchscreen performance update for the rest of the fleet, an update on Model Y production, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, Elon Musk making a lot of Tesla news this week, |
| 0:06.0 | including giving a long-awaited update on the availability of Model 3's dual motor version and giving an interview on model 3 production to |
| 0:14.3 | CBS this morning. Plus a touch screen performance update for the rest of the |
| 0:18.6 | fleet and update on model Y production and more. Welcome friends. It's Ride the Lightning the unofficial Tesla |
| 0:45.0 | podcast episode number 141. That's a palindrome my friends for |
| 0:49.3 | April 15th 2018. Hopefully you got your taxes done. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined by a very comfortably snoozing Daisy the Boxer puppy |
| 0:57.5 | and it has been another busy week of Tesla News. |
| 0:59.7 | You know, I do my best to, I try to work on the podcast at least a little bit every day, sometimes it's a lot, |
| 1:06.2 | sometimes it's a little, but I try to just stay on top of everything. |
| 1:09.5 | And this morning, or today I should say Friday. CBS this morning had an interview with Elon Musk. |
| 1:17.0 | Gail King, one of the co-anchors there, the co-host, went to the Tesla factory, |
| 1:22.0 | got a tour, saw the Model 3 production line went out in a model three, talking about autopilot. |
| 1:27.0 | They did a lot of stuff with Elon, so there was a lot to parse through. |
| 1:31.0 | And believe me, I'm not complaining like I I love being able to play |
| 1:34.8 | Elon Musk audio clips for you and I've got plenty of those here in a second but on Friday |
| 1:40.6 | oh man I had the show like mostly ready to go and I am starting much |
| 1:45.3 | later than I want to start it is very late as I start recording this tonight but |
| 1:50.0 | you know what better that honestly in my opinion than for this having for this to come out tomorrow and maybe I miss it or would have had to hold the show later so |
| 1:59.4 | Anyway, it's neither here nor there There is a lot to get to this week. I do want to start with |
| 2:05.2 | that CBS this morning piece on Elon Musk, the interview between Gail King and |
| 2:11.7 | Elon taken place over the course of an entire day. |
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