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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 154: US Federal Tax Credit Phase-Out Begins

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Business News, News, Automotive, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The US federal tax credit situation has been finalized. I'll give you all the details on how much longer it'll last. Plus: Tesla officially names Shanghai as the site of its third Gigafactory, Elon Musk gives me an update on Performance Model 3 deliveries, select Model X 100Ds get a free performance boost, and more!

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0:00.0

On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, the U.S. federal tax credit situation has been finalized.

0:07.0

I'll give you all the details on how much longer it'll last.

0:11.0

Plus, Tesla officially named Shanghai as the site of its third gigafactory.

0:15.0

Elon Musk gives me an update on the Performance Model 3 delivery situation,

0:20.0

Select Model X 100 D's get a free performance boost and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 154 of Ride the

0:49.7

Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast for July 15th 2018 the Boxer

0:56.0

Pupy snoozing on the couch.

0:57.6

We had a great time at the park after work today.

1:01.2

We actually met up with another boxer boxer so she got to go full out

1:04.5

actual boxing like they actually sort of stand up and paw at each other. It's

1:09.5

super cool to watch it's it's she it was a different play than then with other dogs. It's neat for us boxer-runners. Anyway, this is a huge show. You already know how long it is, but I anticipate this is going to be a really long one because this was an intense

1:23.3

packed week of Tesla News so I don't want to waste any more time and get right into it

1:29.8

other than this just I have a little fun before we get started.

1:34.0

A lot of great replies to my little segment last week about custom license plates,

1:39.0

personalized license plates.

1:40.0

I just want to read you a few of the good ones that people sent me that they have in various

1:45.3

states. There's a few different variants on the same thing here. Buy OPEC, I like like no OPEC, OPEC no,

1:54.8

oilless, I thought was good, buy gas,

1:58.0

bey-E, as in buy, by, waiving goodbye.

2:01.2

What-e-e-e-e-e-e-v, w-e-T-E-V as in whatever and Watt-E-V, I thought that was really good.

2:09.0

Y-by-gas, the letter Y, that's cool. Noisy AF, which is... the and shared an interesting story about it too. So I thought that was funny that they, first of all,

2:23.2

they even got it by their state regulator,

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