Episode 283: Even More Model 3 and Model Y Changes
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Made-in-China Model 3's and Y's get some new design tweaks, a few high-profile music services appear to be on the way soon, more cities are adding Teslas to their police fleets, my thoughts on the new in-car UI, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the first ride the lightning of 2021, made in China model 3s and model |
| 0:05.6 | wise get some design tweaks. A few high profile music services appear to be on the way to |
| 0:11.3 | your Tesla soon. |
| 0:12.8 | More cities are adding Tesla's to their police fleets, |
| 0:15.9 | my thoughts on the new in-car UI, and more. Oh, What's happening friends? Daisy the Boxer and I want to wish you a very happy new year it is |
| 0:44.1 | 2021 this is episode 283 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:50.0 | podcast for January 3rd 2021. I of course am Ryan McCaffrey thrilled to be joining you here. |
| 0:57.0 | I am in a great mood to start the year. I'm recording on New Year's Day here on January 1st. |
| 1:04.0 | I've been very fortunate to have a little bit of time off from work here |
| 1:08.4 | and just been getting caught up on things. |
| 1:10.9 | I've had plenty of time to work on the podcast and I'll tell you I said at the end of last |
| 1:15.6 | week's show I was a little bit worried that with the holiday week there might not be a lot to talk about |
| 1:20.6 | this week. Nope that was not the case at all. |
| 1:24.1 | There is plenty of awesome stuff to talk about, |
| 1:27.8 | but looking at the whole year to come, |
| 1:30.6 | it should be a very exciting 2021 in the world of Tesla, |
| 1:35.0 | particularly in the second half, |
| 1:37.5 | because that is when we might not only have enough vaccine distribution around the United States and hopefully the |
| 1:45.8 | world to have some big in-person Tesla events and there should be a number of big monumental Tesla things coming up in the second half of |
| 1:56.6 | 2021. |
| 1:58.1 | You've got the grand openings of Giga Berlin and Giga Austin. You've got the Plaid Model S launch, you've got the Tesla |
| 2:07.0 | Semi launch, and the Cyber Truck launch, which may end up being one in the same as the grand opening of Giga Austin and of course |
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