Episode 272: Big Model 3 Changes + S, X, and Y Updates Too!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
All four Tesla models get some notable changes, highlighted by some more noticeable and interesting tweaks to the Model 3. Plus: the Model S gets a price drop to the exact number you'd imagine that Elon Musk would want to price it at, the first public beta of the full Autopilot rewrite is coming this week, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, all four Tesla |
| 0:04.7 | models get some notable changes highlighted by some more noticeable and interesting tweaks |
| 0:09.8 | to the Model 3. Plus, the Model S gets a price drop to the exact number that you'd imagine that |
| 0:15.8 | Elon Musk would want to price it at. The first public beta of the full |
| 0:19.8 | autopilot rewrite is coming this week and more. What's happening, |
| 0:34.0 | happening, I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you for the |
| 0:45.8 | palindramatic episode 272 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:50.4 | Unofficial podcast for October 18th of 2020 and it is a jam-packed show a |
| 0:57.0 | supremely busy week of Tesla News most of it all really exciting fun stuff to give you an idea of how much stuff |
| 1:04.4 | went on this week. Normally my show planner where I keep all my notes it's about |
| 1:10.0 | 11 to 12 pages in a given week. This week it's 16 pages so let's get right to it and |
| 1:17.3 | get started. The big story this week the model three changes that I told you about a few weeks ago have |
| 1:24.8 | started to come true now that rumor which came via Chinese media and was |
| 1:30.2 | reported by Tesla underscore under scorescore, mania on Twitter |
| 1:34.5 | had said the following. |
| 1:36.0 | There'd be a new steering wheel, |
| 1:37.4 | there'd be a center console 2.0, whatever that meant, |
| 1:41.3 | new headlights and tail lights, a power lift trunk, chrome delete, |
| 1:46.1 | the octov valve and double layer glass for better noise isolation. |
| 1:50.8 | So, most of those have now been confirmed. The black trim, rest in piece, |
| 1:57.6 | Chrome, you're done. No more Chrome. At least on the three and the Y. |
| 2:01.2 | The center console 2.0 is confirmed, the power lift gate, the |
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