Episode 187: The $35,000 Promise Is Fulfilled
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Tesla finally makes good on its promise to offer a $35k Model 3. But there's a LOT more going on than just that this week. Autopilot changes, new battery and interior options, the return of the Long Range RWD Model 3, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Tesla finally makes good on its promise to offer a $35,000 model 3. |
| 0:09.0 | But there is a lot more going on than just that this week. |
| 0:13.0 | Buckle up, there's a lot to get to. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:40.2 | happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode number 187 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, for March 3rd, 2019. the still feisty for now. It's it's going to be a feisty show just there's a lot of |
| 0:54.3 | energy here a lot just a crazy week. One of the most significant weeks in the |
| 1:00.4 | history of Tesla and I am not exaggerating on that it is it has been a major week |
| 1:07.0 | you've no doubt heard at least the top-level stuff of the 35,000 dollar |
| 1:11.8 | model three finally being offered. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm going to talk a lot about that. |
| 1:15.7 | I wanted to start by issuing a correction before we get rolling. |
| 1:20.9 | So I had tried to look up owner data, just sort of actual |
| 1:26.1 | community data on the hotline caller that was asking about whether or not a |
| 1:30.5 | Tesla can jumpstart an internal combustion engine car and while I didn't |
| 1:35.8 | concretely say that you could I still gave out incorrect information and I |
| 1:40.9 | wanted to retract that and apologize before I get started this week. |
| 1:44.7 | You definitely cannot jumpstart an internal combustion engine car with a Tesla page 165 of the model three owners manual |
| 1:56.6 | quote caution model three cannot be used to jumpstart another vehicle |
| 2:01.6 | Doing so can result in damage." |
| 2:05.0 | So I apologize for that error. |
| 2:07.6 | You guys know I do my very best to make sure that I'm giving out accurate information. |
| 2:11.6 | I really, you know, I pride myself on that. |
| 2:13.7 | I'm a journalist by trade. |
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