Episode 211: Spotify, Supercharging, and Smart Air Suspension
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk utters one word on Twitter that makes a lot of North American Tesla owners happy, free unlimited lifetime Supercharging is back for Model S and Model X, an update on the Model 3's long-awaited Smart Air Suspension, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, Elon Musk utters one word on |
| 0:05.5 | Twitter that makes a lot of North American Tesla owners happy. |
| 0:09.4 | Plus, free unlimited lifetime supercharging is back for Model S and Model X, an update on the Model 3's long-awaited |
| 0:16.2 | smart air suspension option and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left, Daisy the Boxer Puppy. |
| 0:43.0 | This is episode 211 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast for August 18th, 2019. |
| 0:50.0 | And yes, I am back quote unquote live as much as a once a week podcast can be live. |
| 0:56.0 | I was at Disneyland with my family last week, my course wife and daughter and then my brother-in-law and his family which we've |
| 1:05.1 | been lucky enough to get to go the last few years with them and boy I love it there |
| 1:09.0 | it is so much fun I love it and it's and and my daughter loves it as well. The new Star Wars area was a huge hit with her. |
| 1:18.1 | That's all she wanted to do was go on the Millennium Falcon ride over and over. |
| 1:23.2 | So really good time to be had there. |
| 1:26.3 | And I want to thank all of you for allowing me |
| 1:29.4 | that time off to spend with my family there, take a little break. I hope you enjoyed the |
| 1:35.0 | podcast that I had prepared for you in my absence there. I was good to connect with |
| 1:40.6 | Mike Falcone again. I enjoyed it, so I hope you did too. One other thing to note |
| 1:47.1 | here on that actually, I do owe a quick apology to the early access Patreon backers, early access on up because I could |
| 1:58.9 | swear that I had uploaded last week's vacation episode before I left, but somehow, it turned out |
| 2:07.1 | somehow I failed to do that and instead of the Patreon backers getting it a week early, they ended up getting it a few hours late. |
| 2:15.2 | So I genuinely feel terrible about that because you should have gotten it nice and super |
| 2:21.0 | early. |
| 2:22.0 | It was done. I feel really bad about that, so I do apologize. Please know that it was very much not on purpose. It was very much an accident. |
| 2:30.0 | As for this week, I am recording a tad early, not quite as early as last time, but I'm recording |
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