Episode 193: Model 3 Option Changes + Leasing
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Tesla changes Model 3 options -- by quite a bit -- once again, a new bipartisan bill looks to extend the federal electric vehicle tax credit -- but not without some modifications, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast a leasing option finally comes to model three |
| 0:06.2 | Tesla changes some model three options by quite a bit once again also a new bipartisan bill looks to extend the federal electric |
| 0:15.4 | vehicle tax credit but not without some modifications and much more. The Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 193 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:45.6 | Podcast for April 14th, 2019 to my left. Daisy the boxer puppy who is curled up in an adorable |
| 0:52.2 | little puppy ball. |
| 0:53.5 | I think she'll be asleep momentarily. |
| 0:57.7 | And you will not be though, I'm pretty sure, because this is one of the single busiest weeks of Tesla News that I can genuinely remember, period. |
| 1:07.0 | I've got a dozen stories prepared for you this week, a dozen things that I want to go over, but first a couple of quick |
| 1:14.5 | housekeeping notes. Number one, next week is I will be my vacation episode so |
| 1:21.4 | we are family we leave for our trip tomorrow so it's next week that I'll be gone and thus have |
| 1:27.4 | That best of episode for you if you didn't hear the end of last week show |
| 1:34.0 | Take a listen to that. I go over sort of what you're going to get. |
| 1:36.8 | So there is a show next week. |
| 1:39.0 | I've already recorded it. |
| 1:40.4 | It's actually being, it'll be uploaded by the time you hear this right now for |
| 1:44.5 | Patreon early access folks through those the people at the early access tier or |
| 1:49.8 | higher you can go ahead and listen to it anytime in the next two weeks. |
| 1:53.7 | But for everybody else, it will go out on the normal time. |
| 1:57.6 | So that'll be April 21st, the Sunday, of course, at 9 a.m. |
| 2:01.7 | Eastern time, 6 a.m. Pacific. But yeah, again, I really hope you like it. I welcome your feedback on it. It is a mix of something old but probably new to you in the form of an old |
| 2:16.3 | Elon Musk presentation from when the when Tesla had their very very first event |
| 2:22.3 | at the Tesla factory in October of 2011. |
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