Episode 148: Consumer Reports Affects Positive Change for Model 3
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Consumer Reports helps affect positive change for all Model 3 owners, Model 3 may get an optional key fob a la Model S and X, the Performance Model 3 gets an upgrade before it's even released, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, A Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.2 | Consumer Reports helps affect positive change for all model three owners. |
| 0:07.8 | Model three may get an optional key fob, a la the model S and model X, |
| 0:12.3 | the performance model three gets an upgrade before it's even released and more Oh, Greetings friends, |
| 0:37.0 | friends, welcome to the 148th edition of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:42.2 | for June 3rd 2018. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined as always by, |
| 0:47.0 | well, is this week a very attentive, |
| 0:49.0 | Daisy the boxer puppy, she is still awake, not asleep, |
| 0:52.0 | she's kind of looking up at me like you got |
| 0:54.3 | anything else I always give her on the first of the month which is when I'm |
| 0:58.2 | recording I always give her her her monthly flea and tick and heartworm pills and so she's just gobbled those |
| 1:06.6 | up and she thinks they're treats which is great she's like you got anything else like |
| 1:10.3 | nothing else for now Daisy sorry just enjoy the show puppy so |
| 1:14.8 | lots more to get to another busy week of Tesla news Nary a week goes by anymore |
| 1:19.9 | without something interesting happening. |
| 1:22.5 | But with that, I do want to get right to it because the shows of how, look, they've all been about |
| 1:28.2 | an hour and a half per episode, about for the last month or so. And I'd like to bring that down a little bit back closer to an hour |
| 1:36.1 | because again I very much value your time and I don't want to keep you for I don't want to overstay my welcome basically, so let's get right to it. |
| 1:45.6 | The big news this week, you may have heard about this because this got talked about pretty far and |
| 1:49.7 | wide. |
| 1:50.7 | Consumer Reports, I did touch on this last week, but there is a big follow-up here. |
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