Episode 25: A Falcon-Winged Lawsuit
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Tesla calls their lawyers to defend themselves against a supplier who couldn’t deliver the Model X’s falcon-wing doors, a new Consumer Reports survey names the most satisfying commuter cars (I’ll bet you can guess which car is #1), and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tesla calls their lawyers to defend themselves against a supplier who couldn't deliver the |
| 0:08.8 | Model X's Falcon Wing Doors. A new Consumer Reports survey names the most satisfying commuter cars, and I'll bet you can |
| 0:16.0 | guess which car is number one, and much more. |
| 0:18.9 | Hey now! Oh, What's happening folks? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to Ride The Lightning, the Tesla Motors, unofficial |
| 0:44.6 | podcast. This is a little mini milestone for me. It's episode 25. I know that's, doesn't really mean anything, |
| 0:51.2 | I guess 26 would be half a year but 25 is a nice number it |
| 0:55.2 | feels good to get to 25 went by quick it's still it feels like I just started |
| 0:59.2 | doing this a month ago but this is great there were 25 episodes in I hope you're having an excellent day |
| 1:05.1 | as you sit down to listen to the show I thank you for listening to the show one weird |
| 1:09.4 | side note before we get started today I would like to make a request to all media outlets, all of them, |
| 1:17.1 | from the biggest ones to the littlest ones. Would all of you please stop using photos of the model S prototype in your Tesla articles? |
| 1:29.1 | The car is very different, the production car is very different. That prototype's from like 2009, but it never fails. I see that image. And it's not even the same image. It's actually there are several different ones that I see, but prototype images still accompany Tesla articles |
| 1:45.9 | almost weekly, including this week I saw one on Fortune magazine site. Fortune's a big outlet. They can get a newer picture. |
| 1:56.0 | There are hundreds of readily available photos of the actual Model S production vehicle, |
| 2:01.0 | including an easily accessible press kit on Tesla's website. |
| 2:05.0 | So there's your public service announcement, my plea to any media outlets who may be listening. |
| 2:11.8 | So let's see, what's happening this week. |
| 2:13.1 | There's a couple of very, we've got a more diverse set of news stories I'd say this week |
| 2:18.6 | than I've ever had. |
| 2:20.6 | We'll get to those real quick. I want to note that other than I'm also |
| 2:24.8 | surprised just personally living and working in San Francisco I still have yet to |
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