Episode 188: Model Y Is Coming & V3 Supercharging Is Here!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2019
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Tesla announces the unveiling date for the Model Y and offers a few details on the smaller SUV, the first V3 Supercharger rolls out complete with all the answers to the key questions, a key follow-up on the Autopilot price and package changes from last week, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the huge news keeps coming. |
| 0:06.0 | Tesla announces the unveiling date for the model Y and offers a few details on the smaller |
| 0:11.8 | SUV, plus the first V3 supercharger rolls out, complete with all |
| 0:17.2 | the answers to the key questions, plus a key follow-up on the autopilot price and package |
| 0:22.4 | changes from last week and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:49.0 | happening, friends? Welcome to Ride The Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast episode 188 for March 10th, 2019. a sleeping Daisy, the boxer puppy is to my left, and you will not be |
| 0:57.4 | sleeping through this episode, I hope because there is a lot to cover. |
| 1:02.4 | There is so much to cover this week the big news just keeps on coming |
| 1:06.1 | before I get started with that I did want to first mention that a thing I missed |
| 1:10.8 | last week and I want to thank Kai for pointing this out amidst all the new options and configuration packages that I went over last week |
| 1:20.1 | I missed one key thing that I want to make sure that I pass along so people know. |
| 1:25.0 | The partial premium interior package includes heated front seats but not heated rear seats. |
| 1:33.7 | So if that's just something that factors into your decision, |
| 1:36.4 | there's so much to go through now |
| 1:38.0 | when you're looking at the design studio. |
| 1:40.2 | It's a lot of information to process, |
| 1:41.8 | so I wanted to make sure to pass that along. |
| 1:43.4 | Thank you, Kai, for correcting me on that. |
| 1:46.8 | Now, let's get to the week's big news. |
| 1:49.8 | You know, in the span of what will ultimately be two weeks from Thursday, February 28th, to Thursday, March 14th, |
| 1:59.0 | the following things will happen from Tesla. The $35,000 standard battery model 3 launches along with some other |
| 2:07.3 | options like the standard plus partial premium interior that I just mentioned etc. |
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