Episode 181: Hack Your Way to a Free Model 3
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Layoffs hit Tesla – I'll give you the details and my thoughts. Plus: Tesla is offering up a heck of a prize to white-hat hackers, you've now got a new option for at-home car charging, the referral program finally rides off into the sunset, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | layoffs hit Tesla. I'll give you the details as well as my thoughts. |
| 0:07.6 | Plus, Tesla is offering up a heck of a prize to White Hat hackers. |
| 0:12.4 | You've now got a new option for at home card charging. |
| 0:15.8 | The Tesla referral program finally rides off into the sunset and more. What's happening, friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning, the |
| 0:44.1 | Tesla unofficial podcast episode number 181. That's a palindrome. For |
| 0:49.1 | January 20th 2019, I'm alongside Daisy the boxer puppy who as usual is sitting on the couch up against the back of the couch |
| 0:59.2 | She's pushed the cushion the back cushion down and is sitting on that, that's her butt cushion and she's sitting like a person, just like pretty much straight up and it's kind of hilarious. |
| 1:12.0 | She's just kind of looking out the window. |
| 1:14.0 | That's her thing. |
| 1:15.0 | She'll probably be asleep by the end of the show as usual. |
| 1:18.0 | But anyway, I've got to tell you when I started putting this show together this week in fact when I |
| 1:26.2 | finished putting the show together this week yesterday Thursday as I'm recording this late Friday as usual |
| 1:34.3 | I was looking at it going well this was wow this is actually the first kind of slow Tesla newsweek in a while like I just I |
| 1:39.2 | didn't have a ton of ride the Lightning Hotline phone calls from you guys. |
| 1:45.0 | I didn't have a ton of news stories to go over and I thought, well, all right, well, it is what it is. |
| 1:49.2 | This will be one of the shorter episodes in a while. |
| 1:52.4 | And then, unfortunately, Friday... the shorter episodes in a while and then unfortunately Friday I did get plenty of |
| 1:56.0 | news to talk about but not of the ideal variety so I'm going to cover that in a few |
| 2:01.0 | minutes but first just a kind just a couple of notes here. |
| 2:04.6 | Number one, the 75D model S and model X variants are now gone, as promised. So we'll see, we'll see what happens next here you know |
| 2:15.5 | will that 100D become the standard because we know that that Tesla is going to |
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