Episode 151: The First Performance Model 3 Is Born
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk posts a picture of the first-ever Performance Model 3, and it looks a lot like mine! Plus: Tesla zeroes in on a location for its future European Gigafactory, Model 3 gets a couple of long-awaited new features via a software update, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast Elon Musk |
| 0:04.0 | posts a picture of the first ever performance model three and it looks a lot like mine. |
| 0:09.4 | Plus Tesla zeros in on a location for its future European Gigafactory, |
| 0:14.1 | Model 3 gets a couple of long-awaited new features via a software update and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 151 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:44.6 | podcast for June 24th, 2018. 151 would be a palindrome, which is always fun. |
| 0:50.5 | Anyway, I want to kick off the show this week by saying thank you to |
| 0:55.0 | one particular listener who also happens to be a Patreon supporter Matthew Para |
| 0:59.3 | helped me out last week with an audio issue on the interview, the Jeff McGovern interview that you heard last week. |
| 1:07.6 | I want to apologize to the Patreon folks who, via the early access to the show they get heard the original flawed |
| 1:15.1 | version with the audio technical difficulty in that interview and thank you so |
| 1:20.5 | much to Matthew for lending his expertise to help get that corrected by the time the show went out wide. |
| 1:26.0 | I hope you all enjoy that interview by the way. |
| 1:28.7 | I very much enjoy doing it. |
| 1:30.8 | It was good to get out and meet Jeff and just talk detailing because again I |
| 1:35.8 | really do find it to be a an endlessly complex and multiple choice kind of thing. |
| 1:44.0 | Anyway, we're going to get back to the Ride the Lightning Hotline this week as well. |
| 1:48.0 | Plenty of great calls from you guys queued up and ready to go. |
| 1:52.0 | A lot of you called in while I was at E3 the prior week I got caught |
| 1:55.4 | up on all that so stay tuned for that later on in the podcast. Coming up now will be the news of the first model three, the performance version that is. |
| 2:07.6 | It has been built. |
| 2:09.3 | Elon Musk took to Twitter to fire off a picture of a performance model 3, the first one rolling off the line. |
| 2:18.0 | Elon saying, quote, amazing work by Tesla team built entire new General Assembly line in three weeks |
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