On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast,

Tesla has issued a price drop on the model three, European model three

deliveries have begun. Tesla acquires a battery company. Joe Rogin makes good on his promise to buy a model S and more. Oh, Welcome friends. It is Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the

Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the 184th edition of this thing for February 10th, 2019.

I'm Ryan McCaffrey.

To my left, Daisy the Boxer Puppy, who is currently underneath a blanket just kind of chilling out as she does sometimes

got plenty to talk about on this week almost never a dull moment in the world of

Tesla that's why if I were going to make a podcast about any car company

and do it weekly and do that weekly podcast religiously just without ever skipping a week.

Boy, Tesla's the one to do it. There's almost never a

slow week. And this week, a very, very exciting one for some European Tesla customers.

Congratulations are in order for those of you in Europe

who have taken delivery of your model three.

The first European model three deliveries started this week

after the Glovis captain, the ship came into port, pictures posted online on social

media all over the place that Tesla picked up and

and shared out themselves. So I invite any of you to call in or you can write me if you want

whatever's comfortable for you but I'd certainly love to call in have a unique perspective on this not only in the sense that your countries are

different than North America and just the the the roads themselves are different, but just the culture is different.

You know, Tesla might have a very different connotation there, like in Norway Norway it's wholeheartedly embraced you know in

in Germany it's seemingly you know from afar anyway seems like kind of more of a

rival to you know this this American rival to the BMWs and Mercedes and

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