Episode 190: Tesla's Texas Troubles
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Tesla continues to have trouble doing business in Texas, but this time it affects existing Tesla owners as well as Tesla itself. Plus: Canada proposes new EV incentives that seem to very specifically omit Tesla, the referral program returns in a new format, Tesla says regular maintenance schedules aren't needed after all, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla continues to have trouble doing business in Texas, but this time it affects |
| 0:08.4 | existing Tesla owners as well as Tesla itself. Plus, Canada proposes new EV incentives |
| 0:14.8 | that seem to very specifically omit Tesla. |
| 0:18.0 | The referral program returns in a new format. |
| 0:20.9 | Tesla says regular maintenance schedules aren't needed after all and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:46.0 | happening friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning, the weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast episode |
| 0:51.6 | number 190 for March 24th, 2019 to my left looking longingly out the window. |
| 0:59.4 | Her eyes are starting to nod off now. |
| 1:01.6 | Daisy the boxer puppy. And I'll tell you there is just |
| 1:04.9 | never a dull moment in the world of Tesla. You would think that if ever there was |
| 1:10.4 | going to be a slow newsweek with not a lot for me to cover on the |
| 1:14.7 | podcast this week that it would have been this week in the wake of the model |
| 1:19.7 | why reveal and just the unbelievable onslaught of huge news we've had over the last couple |
| 1:25.5 | weeks but no tons of interesting stuff going on and on that note before I get |
| 1:31.2 | started I wanted to just mention I got, and I'm very happy about this by the way, very grateful for this, |
| 1:36.8 | more phone calls in the Ride the Lightning hotline over the past week, I think that I've ever had in a single week before so many |
| 1:44.6 | that I have not even been able to get to all of them yet but I want to thank all of |
| 1:49.0 | you who've chimed in feel free to keep them coming I will will get to them, I will get caught up. But again, there have been |
| 1:56.0 | so many which is great. So I've got a packed hotline later in the show, just a lot of, mostly all talk |
| 2:01.8 | about the Model Y, your reactions reactions to it I'd ask for |
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