Episode 229: Model 3 Dual Motor Gets Faster...for a Price
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The Dual Motor Model 3 gets a significant speed boost...if you're willing to pay to unlock it. Plus: TIME Magazine honors the Model S, Model 3 dominates the sales charts in 2019, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | the dual motor model 3 gets a significant speed boost |
| 0:07.2 | if you're willing to pay to unlock it. |
| 0:09.6 | Plus, Time magazine honors the model S. |
| 0:12.3 | Model 3 dominates the sales charts in 2019, and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to episode 229 of Ride the Lightning, |
| 0:41.2 | the Tesla unofficial podcast for December 22nd, 2019 Daisy the |
| 0:46.0 | Boxer Puppy is behind me currently rearranging the blankets in her crate so she's |
| 0:50.7 | awake for now. We'll see how long that lasts in the podcast. |
| 0:54.6 | Anyway, next week, as I said on the end of last week's show, I will be here. |
| 1:00.2 | There's no, you know, I don't take time off from this podcast and on the rare |
| 1:04.3 | occasion I do I do give you something to listen to that week but I'll be here with |
| 1:09.9 | regular new quote-unquote live regular shows for the holidays. I am doing a little bit of |
| 1:17.2 | traveling but nothing that will prevent me from doing a podcast but I will say I do |
| 1:22.1 | need to do the show a little early the next couple |
| 1:25.1 | weeks just because of my travel dates meeting on Thursday. So if it's so works out that I |
| 1:30.2 | happen to miss anything, I apologize and I'll of course as always pick that up on the following week's show but yeah |
| 1:37.4 | I will be traveling to and fro the next couple Fridays between San Francisco and Phoenix. |
| 1:45.0 | So if you're along those routes, you know, San Francisco to Phoenix or just even |
| 1:50.0 | LA to Phoenix on either of the next couple of Fridays. |
| 1:54.8 | Well, maybe we'll run into each other at a supercharger. |
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