Episode 289: The $25k Tesla Will Be Revealed...This Year!?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
The so-called "Model 2", aka the $25,000 Tesla, could be revealed even sooner than we thought. Plus: the new United States presidential administration wants to go electric in a big way, Enhanced Autopilot is back on the menu...in Europe, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the so-called Model 2, |
| 0:05.2 | aka the $25,000 Tesla could be revealed even sooner than we thought. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus, the new United States Presidential Administration wants to go |
| 0:14.5 | electric in a big way. Enhanced autopilot is back on the menu in Europe and more. Welcome friends to the |
| 0:42.5 | to the 289 episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:46.1 | Unofficial Podcast for Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day if you happen to |
| 0:49.8 | be listening here on Sunday. February 14th, 2021 is the day this show is being released. |
| 0:56.8 | And first of all, I wanted to say, I hope all of you enjoyed the Marquez Brownlee |
| 1:00.9 | conversation last week. I sure did, as I think I might have conversation last week. I sure did as I think I might have said |
| 1:04.4 | last week that was my first time actually having a conversation with him after |
| 1:08.8 | bumping into him at a couple of Tesla events over the years so it was really nice to sit down and just talk about all things Tesla with him because he does cover Tesla on his channel from time to time, |
| 1:20.0 | but that was a nice concentrated like, let's just talk about Tesla for you know about half an hour is what the interview was so I had a good time with that and I hope you did as well |
| 1:30.4 | Speaking of interviews Elon Musk returned to the Joe Rogan podcast, this time for a nearly three and a half hour interview, and it happened very late this week. I'm still going through it |
| 1:46.3 | so I have some clips for you and a recap of that on next week's podcast. |
| 1:51.1 | It's also been quite a week for me, which I'm going to just wait, |
| 1:56.2 | I'm going to save and talk about at the end of the show so that people who just want to hear |
| 2:00.8 | Tesla stuff, hear Tesla stuff, |
| 2:03.5 | have some less than great news to tell you about |
| 2:06.8 | towards, well, just right at the end of the podcast. |
| 2:10.3 | But we'll, you know, we'll save that for later later and I know I'm like leaving you hanging it's day it's Daisy related. She's here. She's with me |
| 2:19.9 | But yeah, it's had a tough week, so I'll tell you about that a little later on |
| 2:24.6 | First let's let's have a little fun. This is gonna be a just honestly. It's a distraction for me at this point. It's I'm gonna take my mind off of this for the next hour or so as I talk about the thing |
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