Episode 286: Is This Long-Awaited Model 3 Feature Finally Imminent?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Tesla extends its agreement with world-renowned battery researcher Dr. Jeff Dahn, Sandy Munro has mixed reactions to a teardown of a brand-new 2021 Model 3, some great news for owners of older Model S's and X's, a long-awaited option might finally be on the way to Model 3, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla extends its agreement with world-renowned battery researcher Dr. Jeff Don. |
| 0:08.4 | Sandy Monroe has mixed reactions to a tear down of a brand new 2021 model three, some great news for owners |
| 0:16.2 | of older model S's and X's and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 286 of Ride the Lightning for January 24th, 2021. |
| 0:46.6 | To my left, Daisy the boxer who is just kind of looking at me leery-eyed like, oh, are we stuck in here |
| 0:52.2 | for another hour again while we do this? |
| 0:55.4 | All right, I guess so. |
| 0:56.7 | I'll be asleep in five minutes. |
| 0:58.7 | Anyway, plenty more to get to on this week's show, and a reminder that next week's episode is going to be the quarterly |
| 1:06.2 | earnings call recap and analysis. It's one of my favorite shows to do every year. I get to do it four times a year. |
| 1:14.1 | Although I guess sometimes more. |
| 1:15.3 | Maybe you throw in the shareholder meeting, five, |
| 1:18.6 | and then, okay. |
| 1:19.6 | Anyway, they're really fun to do. |
| 1:22.3 | They're always, they take a lot. It's always tough because I record on |
| 1:26.4 | Friday nights and the earnings calls are on Wednesday afternoon so it ends up |
| 1:31.3 | being a really really short tight week of |
| 1:34.9 | podcast work for me but it's always fun to do when it's all done and over with |
| 1:40.0 | because there's usually fun stuff to recap at these earnings calls and in fact this time |
| 1:46.6 | it could be really exciting if the model X and S refresh actually happened because there is a good chance as I talked |
| 1:55.7 | about last week that that would be the place where they would get talked about or |
| 1:58.9 | even just announced period could be on that call, adding a bit of fuel to the hype fire on that front. |
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