Episode 158: Elon's Private Tesla Plan
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk drops an absolute bombshell, announcing his intention to try and return Tesla to being a private company. Plus: Road and Track hits the track – with Track Mode – in a P3D, price increases hit Tesla vehicles across the board, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.2 | Elon Musk drops an absolute bombshell, announcing his intention to try and return Tesla |
| 0:08.6 | to being a private company. |
| 0:10.3 | Plus, Road and Track hits the track, with track mode in a P3D, price increases hit Tesla vehicles across the board and more. I'm going to What's happening, |
| 0:45.1 | happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey here with you for the 158 episode of Ride the Lightning? It is the Tesla unofficial podcast for August 12, 2018. |
| 0:50.3 | Daisy the Boxer puppy, half asleep, still still half awake to my left. |
| 0:54.5 | She'll be asleep by the end of the show I can guarantee it |
| 0:57.6 | Plenty to get to this week. I want a note I want a quick show note up top I'm going to be on vacation from Sunday to |
| 1:05.0 | Saturday this week so the show will not I won't be able to do the podcast for next |
| 1:11.0 | week it will come on time but it won't get done until Saturday night. |
| 1:15.0 | Usually I do it Friday night, so just wanted to apologize to the Patreon folks, the |
| 1:20.2 | supporters on Patreon in advance, those of you at the early show access level. |
| 1:26.1 | It's not going to be too early this week. |
| 1:28.0 | Hope you'll forgive me. |
| 1:29.2 | If it makes you, you know, maybe a couple, a week or two it was it was earlier than usual is |
| 1:34.0 | Thursday night so hopefully that carmically balances out a little bit but anyway just |
| 1:38.8 | a quick show note there I wanted to add you know I am getting quite antsy to get my car back |
| 1:45.5 | from Immaculate Reflections and the the detail work being performed there. |
| 1:49.7 | It's kind of it's been extended by the fact that Jeff he had told me he warned me well in advance |
| 1:57.1 | This was not a surprise that he was going to be out of town for four days |
| 2:01.6 | So that has eaten into the time and I was hoping I would get it back the day |
| 2:05.8 | before I left for my vacation so I could at least come home to it in the garage and drive |
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