Episode 155: Model 3 Profitability + P3D Test Drive Impressions
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2018
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
A few new nitty-gritty details about the Performance Model 3, the Wall Street Journal gets the first test drive and reports their impressions, Sandy Munro, in his words, "eats crow" about the Model 3's profitability potential, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, we learn a few more nitty gritty details about the performance model three as test drives begin. |
| 0:08.8 | The Wall Street Journal gets the first test drive and reports their impressions, Sandy Monroe in his words |
| 0:15.1 | eats Crow about the model three's profitability potential and more. I'm going to Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey with you here for episode number 155 on July 22nd, 2018. |
| 0:48.0 | This is Ride the Lightning Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:51.1 | Joined as always by Daisy the Boxer Puppy who by the way I'd like to send her a |
| 0:55.2 | shout out if she she is awake hey Daisy no she's busy happy first birthday to Daisy the Boxer puppy this weekend as I record this. |
| 1:07.0 | I think we're going to try and do something special. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm recording on late Friday night as I usually do, so I think we're going to do something fun this weekend. I haven't taken her to the beach yet. I've just been wanting to get some more training under her belt, but I got a really long, like a 20-omine lead so I think we might test that out because I'll tell you Maggie I may have mentioned it in the past but the beach was Maggie's favorite spot so I think it's maybe it's high time |
| 1:34.2 | that I took Daisy there as well. |
| 1:36.2 | So it's been an awesome ride these first 10 months. |
| 1:40.0 | And here's two, here's two at least 10 more years, Daisy. I sure hope so. Real quick, another show note as well. I wanted to issue a quick apology to those of you who use Google Play to get the show. |
| 1:54.0 | You may have noticed it didn't go out. |
| 1:57.0 | I had a couple people reach out and be like, |
| 1:59.0 | hey Ryan, it's uncharacteristic for you to miss an episode |
| 2:02.0 | and then turns out I didn't and they thankfully |
| 2:05.2 | were able to, those folks that wrote me were able to sort that out. |
| 2:09.7 | There was an issue with Google on the podcast feed. I wrote to Google right away and they wrote back and said, |
| 2:15.5 | we're currently experiencing issues with Libson feeds and that's who I use for my hosting service |
| 2:20.2 | Lipson. We expect to have this fixed in the next several days and will |
| 2:23.0 | automatically ingest your podcast once it's fixed. So hopefully it is |
| 2:28.2 | fixed by now if you listen via Google Play I do apologize for that inconvenience. |
| 2:33.8 | I did what I could and then it was out of my hands. |
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