Episode 201: Model S/X Redesign Rumors
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
A Tesla insider tells a trusted Tesla community member that big changes are coming to the Model S and Model X. Plus: free unlimited Supercharging with a new Tesla purchase is back on the table, but with a caveat, good news out of Illinois where the state government was trying to impose a $1000 annual fee on electric vehicles, 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, a Tesla Insider tells a trusted Tesla community member that big changes are coming to the model S and model X. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, free unlimited supercharging with a new Tesla purchase is back on the table, but with a caveat. |
| 0:17.0 | Good news out of Illinois where the state government was trying to impose a $1,000 annual fee on electric vehicles and more. What's happening, |
| 0:48.0 | happening friends? Welcome to episode 2001 of Ride the Lightning, the weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined to my left as always by the great canine |
| 0:53.9 | companion herself Daisy the boxer puppy this episode is for June 9th |
| 0:58.1 | 2019 and so hey did did anything happen week? I read about some semi-truck stuff some model why stuff |
| 1:06.7 | Kept hearing about this ride the lightning Ryan McCaffrey guy. Oh no that was |
| 1:12.0 | It was really crazy to see all the media coverage last week of my interview with |
| 1:16.9 | Elon Musk. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm going to talk more about kind of the behind the scenes of that. |
| 1:20.9 | Towards the end of the show, I want to make sure to get to the |
| 1:23.0 | Tesla news up front so that if you don't care about the Ryan McCaffrey stuff that's all |
| 1:28.6 | at the end where you can ignore it but yeah it's it's been a heck of a week it's been a blast it's just it's again I almost |
| 1:37.2 | kind of can't believe that that actually happened that I actually got to sit down |
| 1:40.8 | and interview Elon Musk face to face and that I got an hour after they told me it would be half an hour and maybe he'd be willing to go a little more and we rolled for an hour. |
| 1:52.0 | It just feels so good. I feel like I left it all on the |
| 1:56.2 | table. I didn't walk out of there going gosh I wish I'd asked that or I wish I'd |
| 2:00.3 | said this. It felt good and people seemed to really enjoy it. So thanks to all of you for your incredibly kind words. |
| 2:09.0 | And I can't, well I'm not going to play the calls or read all the emails because that would just be way |
| 2:15.2 | too self-congratulatory for me. |
| 2:18.9 | That's not my style. |
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