Episode 164: Five Stars in Every Category
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The Model S has a record-setting day at a legendary track, Model 3 gets its much-anticipated US government safety rating, another price increase on a certain option, software version 9 is getting a big new feature, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | The Model S has a record setting day at a legendary track. |
| 0:07.1 | Model 3 gets its much anticipated U.S. government safety rating, |
| 0:11.3 | another price increase on a certain option, software version 9 |
| 0:15.6 | is getting a big new feature and much more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to episode 164 of Ride the Lightning. Yes, the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:45.4 | podcast. This one's for September 23rd, 2018. Had an excellent birthday this past week. |
| 0:53.0 | This weekend in particular, in fact, as I record this Friday night, |
| 0:56.0 | I'm just going to hopefully be doing some fun stuff this weekend. |
| 0:59.0 | I want to do a nice drive down the coast. |
| 1:02.0 | And then another thing that I hadn't planned on doing is doing a little, shall we say, civic duty. Maybe not duty. it's purely volunteer work, but I had a very interesting |
| 1:17.3 | tweet thread with Elon this week on Friday specifically, so get this this so there was an article on inside |
| 1:25.3 | EVs and they had an inside Tesla source claiming that this week there would be a |
| 1:31.1 | huge model 3 push. |
| 1:33.7 | They claimed their source told them 7,000 model 3s looking to get delivered |
| 1:39.4 | in this final week of Q3 to try and get just as many cars delivered as possible in this |
| 1:46.4 | never-ending and immediate quest for profitability for Tesla. So I saw that. I read their story and I thought it was really interesting. I was like, |
| 1:55.2 | man, 7,000's a lot. And I decided to tweet Elon something I've thought about in the past. |
| 2:02.0 | And so I said to him on Twitter, quote, a lot of Tesla drivers, or pardon |
| 2:07.1 | me, Tesla owners, myself included, would be delighted to volunteer for free to help with deliveries in times like this. |
| 2:15.0 | We can't do their paperwork, but we can do orientations. |
| 2:20.0 | It's fun to educate new owners and see their joy and enthusiasm. And I'm, of course, I'm being wholly |
| 2:26.2 | sincere about that. I mean, I think a lot of us love talking Tesla, whether it's to just somebody, you know, |
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