Episode 142: Elon Musk Gets Serious About Model 3 Production
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk outlines his plan to run a much tighter ship at Tesla as Model 3 production ramps up. Plus: good news for Tesla in China, more good news about the long-term battery health in Tesla vehicles, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Elon Musk outlines his plan to run a much tighter ship at Tesla as model 3 production ramps up. |
| 0:09.4 | Plus, good news for Tesla and China, more good news about the long-term battery health in Tesla vehicles and more. Oh, Howdy friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to Ride the |
| 0:39.2 | Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast. This is episode 142 for April 22nd 2018. Joining me as always |
| 0:46.0 | the snoozing as usual Daisy the boxer puppy. We had our very last puppy playgroup session at the SPCA this evening. |
| 0:56.1 | They're basically professionally supervised dog park hours, which has been great for her |
| 1:02.4 | just to improve her socialization skills. |
| 1:05.6 | Because Boxers, if you're not familiar, you know, they have typically, at least in the U.S. |
| 1:11.0 | No Tales, because the Tales are docked at birth, |
| 1:15.0 | and they're super paw-focused. |
| 1:18.0 | And so not every dog really understands or likes the way boxers play. |
| 1:23.9 | So I really wanted to focus with her as a puppy on trying |
| 1:28.7 | to socialize her as best I can in a minute. |
| 1:30.7 | It's been great. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm really sad I won't get to go anymore but she is |
| 1:33.7 | now exhausted after a very fun playtime anyway it's been a busy week once |
| 1:40.0 | again in the world of Tesla, lots more invites coming out. |
| 1:44.3 | Another wave went out this week, including to my coworker Todd. |
| 1:48.9 | I want to congratulate him on his upcoming silver model three with the 19 inch sport wheels. |
| 1:56.5 | That is going to look really sharp. I have to say anecdotally, this is purely |
| 2:00.9 | anecdotally and what's interesting is when I was talking to Todd about this asking him what color he was going with |
| 2:05.1 | He said the same thing before I had a chance to say it and that's |
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