Episode 160: Tesla Stays Public + Jay Leno's Roadster Ride
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Tesla decides to remain a public company, it also sues the Canadian province of Ontario over the abrupt cancellation of the electric vehicle rebate program, Franz von Holzhausen gives Jay Leno a ride in the new Roadster, Gigafactory 1 is getting bigger, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, Tesla decides to remain a public company. |
| 0:06.4 | It also sues the Canadian province of Ontario over the abrupt cancellation of the electric vehicle rebate program. |
| 0:13.0 | Elon Musk gives Marquez Brownlee a tour of the Tesla factory. |
| 0:16.6 | Gigafactory 1 is getting bigger and more. The Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey with you here on episode 160 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:45.8 | podcast for August 26th 2018 I had to wait like literally two minutes to press the |
| 0:52.2 | record button while I waited for Daisy the boxer puppy over here to stop drinking. |
| 0:56.0 | The dog was chugging for like two minutes straight. |
| 0:59.0 | Anyway, I've got another busy show for you. |
| 1:02.0 | As always, there's never a quiet week in the world of |
| 1:04.2 | Tesla in fact I thought this week was going to be quiet it's like yeah there's not |
| 1:09.2 | I had the show like kind of all prepped on Thursday night it's's like, yeah, it's kind of a lighter week this week compared to the usual. |
| 1:16.0 | And then sure enough, Friday night, a huge bit of news drops about Tesla deciding to stay public. I'll talk about that in a bit, but first I wanted to give |
| 1:26.2 | some updated impressions. I finally have the spirit of adventure. My model three is back. It is in my possession full time and boy does it feel good. |
| 1:37.8 | It's my first full proper week with the the plugs at the end of the show so again just you know take this with a grain of salt if you if you choose to just for transparency there but I have to say |
| 1:58.9 | Jeff lived up to his business name. The car does indeed reflect immaculately. So now I just need my |
| 2:09.1 | spoiler and my badge and no word from Tesla on those items just yet. I even called Tesla earlier |
| 2:16.0 | this week about it. They told me that those items would be assigned to the corresponding |
| 2:21.2 | VIN number, the VINs that needed them. |
| 2:23.8 | And when that happens in the system, |
| 2:26.2 | someone from service would reach out |
| 2:27.8 | to schedule a visit for installation. |
| 2:30.0 | So I thought I would share that information |
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