On this week's episode a Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast,

what better way to celebrate episode 200 than an interview with Elon Musk himself?

Yes, it actually happened.

Elon and I discussed Tesla's past, present, and future covering a whole lot of topics

in this one hour conversation.

I hope you enjoy it. So I'm here at Tesla and Palo Alto at their corporate headquarters with the one and only Elon Musk. Elon thank you so much for being here.

You're welcome. So I've got so much to ask you, I know I don't have all day I always wanted to know the model

S it's when in the process of the model S did you know that you had something special?

Was it on paper you just knew or was it not until it got out into the world into

customer's hands or somewhere in between?

Sure.

And I apologize if it takes me a little moment to kind of get into things because by the

other day my mind is loaded up with so much stuff.

I understand.

It takes like a moment to kind of like unload.

So I guess when we unveiled it,

you know, the model as we designed in the corner of the Rocket Factory. So we're

going to have a design studio at the time and I tried various outside design houses and

nothing good came of that.

So I was fortunate to encounter France on the whole-sounges

and just a referral from a friend, and Franz came to the opening of the first Tesla store, the one in LA.

Yeah. And we're at quite a good party I think at the opening and Franzler was a good vibe so and he

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