Episode 280: Two More Cool New Features Coming Soon
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk discusses Tesla's latest capital raise and more in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Japan just became the latest country to set a ban on the sale of new ICE vehicles, Giga Shanghai shines again, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Elon Musk discusses Tesla's latest capital rays and more in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:09.8 | Japan becomes the latest country to set a ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles. |
| 0:15.6 | Gigas Shanghai shines again and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here for episode 280 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, for December 13th, 2020, to my left looking longingly out the window, still awake for now. |
| 0:51.0 | Daisy the Boxer. |
| 0:52.0 | First, I wanted to start the show this week by saying a thank you to Gary Eves for letting me know that the new |
| 0:58.8 | $1,000 discounted price to upgrade an enhanced autopilot car to full self-driving |
| 1:06.5 | it's 5,000 so again as I mentioned last week when I reported that I couldn't |
| 1:11.6 | I couldn't tell what the number was because I wasn't able to look at it in my |
| 1:15.8 | app Gary was able to do that so it's down from 6,000 to 5,000 and again just to |
| 1:21.8 | just to hammer that home I don't know if this will be permanent or just through |
| 1:26.7 | the end of the month, which also happens to be the end of the quarter, so you may want to act |
| 1:31.7 | soon if you think you want to get it at some point and if you're in a position to do so now. |
| 1:37.5 | It is possible that it could go back up. |
| 1:41.5 | Next before I get started with the news proper, another thank you. This one goes out to |
| 1:47.2 | listener Matt Asbury from Leander, Texas, for being the first to give me the heads up that the 1 18th scale diecast model S, |
| 1:57.0 | model X, and model 3 cars have all seen significant price reductions. They've gone from $250 each down to $175. |
| 2:09.4 | Interestingly, the Roadster and Semi-truck 118 scale models are still $250. |
| 2:18.0 | Now Matt theorizes that because the model three has just seen a subtle refresh and I suppose in a scale model |
| 2:25.7 | the wheels center console satin black door handles and window trim would be noticeable changes if Tesla were to do a new |
| 2:36.0 | diecast model of the three that uh... |
| 2:39.4 | Matt thinks that maybe this could be a hint that the long-rumored model S and X refreshes |
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