Episode 147: Elon's Latest Tweetstorm: Model Y, Superchargers + More!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2018
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk drops a ton of new info on Twitter about a bunch of different things, including an upgrade to the Performance Model 3, a big update to Tesla's remote Ranger service, v3 of the Superchargers, the Model Y reveal, and more!
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| 0:13.2 | On this episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast Elon Musk drops a ton of new Tesla info on Twitter covering a bunch of different things including an upgrade to the performance model three, a big update to Tesla's remote ranger service, |
| 0:16.6 | version three of the superchargers, |
| 0:18.8 | the model Y reveal timing, and much more. Greetings friends. I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you for Ride the Lightning |
| 0:45.8 | the Tesla unofficial podcast episode number 147 for May 27th 2018 |
| 0:51.6 | Happy Memorial Day weekend to my USA listeners. |
| 0:55.0 | Boy it has been a week and I want to start by sort of cavioting number one I'm recording on Thursday evening this week a little early |
| 1:05.1 | if anything happens on Friday or perhaps Saturday I apologize in advance I'll cover |
| 1:10.8 | it on next week show my wife I forgot my wife has concert |
| 1:14.7 | tickets for Friday night so my Friday night is not going to be available for the |
| 1:19.4 | podcast so gonna knock this out and the good news is I've got no shortage of things to cover. |
| 1:24.4 | It was an absolutely wild week, which both for Tesla and for me. |
| 1:31.4 | And so I want to start also with a kind of pre apology here as well |
| 1:37.0 | Normally you know I don't want to make this podcast about me. I mean you know obviously |
| 1:41.9 | little bits of me get in there, but you know, you're here for the |
| 1:46.8 | Tesla News, Tesla Analysis, I appreciate that you clearly care what I think about things in the world |
| 1:52.4 | of Tesla, but I, you know, |
| 1:54.4 | it should never be about me. I'm not the story, but I hope you'll just |
| 1:59.7 | forgive me a little bit of that this week because I do have a story this week and it is |
| 2:07.2 | this. My model three has been ordered and I could not be thrilled more than I am. I mean it's it's been a heck of a ride, it's been a plan, it's been a hope, it's been years of saving up, years of hoping that this day would come and I'd be able to |
| 2:26.8 | check every box and get the ultimate model three of my dreams and I have ordered that car. |
| 2:35.0 | The Performance Model 3 with multi-coat red paint, |
| 2:40.0 | Ultra white interior, Interior, 20-inch sport wheels, and Enhanced Auto Pilot, |
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