On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast Illinois is the latest state with a proposal to make life difficult for Tesla owners, but it's in a different way than you might expect

Plus Tesla completes a major acquisition.

Elon Musk is being honored for his scientific achievements this summer and more. Oh, What's happening my friends? Welcome to Ride The Lightning the weekly Tesla

unofficial podcast. This is episode

number 198 for the date May 19th, 2019. I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left

the Daisy the boxer puppy. Yes,s not really she's gnawing away on a bone trying to get the

marrow out of the middle it's one of those bones is like thirty dollars at the at the pet store where it's it's like a real actual hardcore bone the thing is paid for itself

She spent a lot of time with that thing anyway. She's on the couch to my left the Ed McMahon to my Johnny Carson of this particular show.

Anyway, I was in Santa Monica this week.

Had an excellent week down there on business.

And what's relevant to this show

is that I saw that Tesla is moving into a new bigger more prominent location

downtown there if you've been to Santa Monica or you're familiar with it, maybe you live there, the third street promenade,

which is just this awesome, just lovely row, just this multiple blocks, it's probably four or five blocks of just shops and it's all the streets the

street itself is just walking only there's no cars on there and it's really

really pretty downtown area and Tesla currently does have a store there at the far end, a kind of the end, like if you were

to call it, probably the less the less busy end the opposite sort of

quieter end of the promenade and I was walking around down there again when I had a

little free time.

And they're trying to move or in the process of moving to the opposite end at the clearly

much busier end.

There's like an outdoor shopping mall there, movie theater, and then it's kind of more of the

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