Episode 143: Model 3 Goes Global
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Canada gets hit with a huge wave of Model 3 Design Studio invites, Tesla loses a key department head, the Model 3 gets showcased in China, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, Canada gets hit with a huge wave of model 3 design studio invites. |
| 0:08.0 | Tesla loses a key department head, the model 3 gets showcased in China and more. Welcome, friends. I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning |
| 0:36.9 | the Tesla unofficial podcast episode number 143 for April 29th |
| 0:41.5 | 2018. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm joined on the couch next to me |
| 0:45.0 | by of course Daisy the Boxer Probably Who. |
| 0:47.0 | I realize that sounds like, I figure you guys may be picturing |
| 0:50.0 | like a Tonight Show, Johnny Carson Ed McMahon situation where you've got the co-host |
| 0:56.8 | over on the couch except Daisy doesn't sit there and go, ha ha ha yes yes she just sighs and snores on occasion, but anyway good to be back with you for another week of Tesla coverage here on Ride the Lightning. |
| 1:11.0 | A quick follow-up from last week a handful of folks mentioned to me |
| 1:15.1 | that the Ashley Vance biography of Elon Musk there is a chunk of that dedicated to Elon's hatred for silly acronyms, which I had mentioned I'd called that out as sort of a strange thing I thought in the company-wide email that we analyzed last week. |
| 1:36.4 | So there you go. |
| 1:37.9 | Now I know that there is, Elon Musk has something of a history between himself and excessive strange acronym use. |
| 1:46.0 | It's funny, a couple of people said, oh, you should read it. |
| 1:48.3 | And I, you know, I've obviously been aware of the book. |
| 1:50.9 | It came out in 2015. but I haven't had much interest in |
| 1:55.5 | reading it honestly because it's it's not really an authorized biography it's |
| 2:00.8 | sort of like an acknowledged biography by Elon Musk, but I think he disputes |
| 2:06.9 | certain bits and pieces in it. |
| 2:08.6 | So I don't know, I probably still should at some point. |
| 2:11.8 | I'm sure I'd find it interesting at the very least, but yeah, I guess |
| 2:15.8 | the sort of lack of a full endorsement from Elon has cooled my personal interest in checking |
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