Episode 199: Elon's Various Updates
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk gives a potpourri of updates on various things, a company-wide email suggests that we're in the middle of a big quarter for Tesla, another state is looking to hike annual registration rates on EVs, Tesla adds a fun new Rick and Morty-themed Easter egg to the cars, and more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Elon Musk gives a potpourri of updates on various things. |
| 0:07.5 | A company-wide email suggests that we're in the middle of a big big quarter for Tesla. Another state is looking to hike annual |
| 0:14.7 | registration rates on electric vehicles. Tesla adds a fun new |
| 0:18.4 | Rick and Mordee themed Easter egg to the cars and more. Howdy friends? to the 199th episode of Ride the |
| 0:46.5 | Lightening the Tesla unofficial podcast this one's for May 26th |
| 0:50.3 | 2019 Memorial Day weekend here in the United States. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, I had another busy week, another trip this week. |
| 0:56.3 | I was off to the East Coast, quick turnaround, just out one day and back the next. |
| 0:59.8 | And I'll tell you, man, I forgot how beautiful an East Coast Spring is I mean it's you know it's nice |
| 1:05.5 | out here in Northern California too but just the smell in the air of the various trees |
| 1:09.7 | and blossoms and things man Man, I love it. |
| 1:12.8 | Brought me back to my New Jersey childhood there for a minute. |
| 1:15.5 | Also, before I get started this week, |
| 1:17.4 | a quick thank you to two people, Eli Burton |
| 1:20.2 | from my Tesla adventure, |
| 1:21.8 | and Bill Morris, another another listener for clearing up what had been for me |
| 1:26.3 | just my own little curiosity a mini mystery about how Tesla was gonna badge the new model S's and X's now that Tesla's moved away from the |
| 1:37.4 | 75D, 100D and P 100D nomenclature. So it turns out that they are using the exact same badges on |
| 1:46.8 | SNX that they are on the three, the dual motor badge on the presumably 75 D's and 100 D's and on the performance cars you get |
| 1:58.1 | the dual motor with the red underline same as the performance model three has so that no doubt will save them |
| 2:06.1 | Literally maybe a few cents on each car maybe more I don't know but it'll save them a little bit of money by just having one pool of badges to dip into and as we've heard |
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