Episode 153: 7,000 Teslas in 7 Days!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Tesla reaches their big goal of producing 5,000 Model 3s in one week, a new bill could restore the $7500 federal EV tax credit for the next decade, UK Tesla fans get their first official chance to check out the Model 3, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning to Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.3 | Tesla reaches their big goal of producing 5,000 model 3s in one week. |
| 0:08.6 | A new bill could restore the $7,500 federal EV tax credit for the next decade, |
| 0:15.0 | UK Tesla fans get their first official chance to check out the model three and more. And the Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for the one hundred and fifty third |
| 0:43.8 | edition of Ride the Lightning. It is the Tesla Unofficial Podcast for July 8th |
| 0:48.7 | 2018. To my left sprawled out across just about the entire couch is Daisy the Boxer |
| 0:54.8 | puppy. I hope all of you in the USA had a very happy healthy safe 4th of July |
| 1:01.6 | holiday. I ended up just taking it pretty easy. We were down at my |
| 1:05.2 | brother-in-law's house. He lives further down the peninsula south of San Francisco |
| 1:09.2 | where the weather is a bit warmer and the skies are a bit clearer for fireworks, although |
| 1:13.8 | we ended up just hanging out of their house and not really doing fireworks, although what's |
| 1:18.9 | cool is every year we do that, we've done that the last few few years it seems like we time it just right |
| 1:24.5 | where when we leave their house as we're coming back up north towards San Francisco |
| 1:29.6 | you get all kinds of little fireworks shows on either side of the 101 freeway as you're coming up. |
| 1:37.0 | So it's a it's kind of a neat little weird accidental fireworks tradition I guess we've found our way into. |
| 1:45.0 | And by the way, a belated happy Canada day to my friends up north. |
| 1:50.0 | A quick programming note for you a thing here I'm recording early. It's Thursday |
| 1:57.0 | night as I'm recording because I forgot up until about Wednesday as least as |
| 2:02.0 | far as the podcast was concerned. |
| 2:03.6 | I was like, oh right, I have tickets to a show with my wife on Friday night, which is my usual |
| 2:10.0 | night, and I figured, well, I'd rather record early than a little later so that the |
| 2:15.0 | Patreon folks can get their get their ears on it plus it is you know we did have the |
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