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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 206: Elon Says No to Model S/X Redesign

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Business News, News, Automotive, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk shuts down rumors of a Model S and X redesign, one of the world's biggest Superchargers is getting a massive upgrade, a reported shakeup at Tesla's Autopilot team, Tesla's cranking up production in Fremont, and much more!

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0:00.0

On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast Elon Musk shuts down rumors of a model S and model X

0:07.3

Redesine one of the world's biggest superchargers is getting a massive upgrade a reported-up at Tesla's autopilot team, plus

0:15.1

Tesla's cranking up production in Fremont and much more. Oh, Howdy friends Ryan McCaffry with you for episode 2006 of Ride the Lightning the Weekly Tesla

0:44.0

unofficial podcast for July 14th 2019 and it is just an absolutely

0:50.3

packed Tesla Newsweek this week to give you an idea. I work on the podcast

0:54.9

every night of the week leading up to recording it late Friday night. I had a

0:59.5

full show basically set by Tuesday night and then I kept adding to it after that.

1:06.0

That's how much stuff went on in the world of Tesla this week.

1:09.3

So, you know, none of it's the huge in the megaton sense like, you know, stop the presses, oh my goodness, but nevertheless, there is a large quantity of interesting Tesla news stories to talk about.

1:22.2

So let me get started with the first. of interesting Tesla news stories to talk about.

1:22.6

So let me get started with the first one,

1:25.3

and that is this.

1:26.0

Elon was very busy on Twitter.

1:28.2

That's part of the reason I've got a lot to talk about

1:30.4

and very busy specifically about Tesla.

1:33.0

We know, some weeks he doesn't say anything about Tesla,

1:36.0

some weeks he says a lot, this was a busy week,

1:39.0

and he, probably the biggest thing out of everything he said, is that he threw a very big bucket of

1:45.2

cold water on any rumors of a model S and or model X redesign or even large-scale refresh.

1:54.0

On Twitter, he replied to somebody that asked about this topic and Elon saying,

2:00.0

quote, there is no refreshed model X or model S coming only a series of minor ongoing

2:06.8

changes. The most significant change in the past few years was to use the

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