Episode 29: Finally, A Tesla Anyone Can Afford!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Tesla has a heck of a plan to turn kids into Tesla fans when they’re young, Summon gets a few more useful new features, and much more.
Also, are you planning on buying a Tesla? Visit http://ts.la/peter6387 to get a $1,200 credit towards a home charging installation. Die-hard listener Peter from Denmark has promised to give me the Model X if he wins it in the random referral drawing, which he'll be entered into if you buy a Tesla (the link will work anywhere in the world) using the above referral link!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the lightning the Tesla Motors unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.9 | Tesla has one heck of a plan to turn kids into Tesla fans while they're still young |
| 0:09.1 | Summon gets a few more useful new features and much more. |
| 0:12.8 | Rabin on! a few more useful new features and much more. Rob alone! Ah, you're welcome for the worst Robert Plant impression in the history of |
| 0:38.4 | recorded time. My name is Ryan McCaffery, welcome to Ride the Lightning |
| 0:42.0 | it's the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Episode number 29 for February 21st, 2016. |
| 0:49.0 | The countdown to the model 3 reveal is on, |
| 0:52.4 | probably going to be a little bit of a shorter show this week. |
| 0:54.6 | I guess you already know the answer to that, by looking at how long it is, I'll find out, |
| 0:59.5 | as I sit here and record it. |
| 1:01.3 | You know, things have calmed down after a very crazy couple of weeks, |
| 1:05.0 | but it's just going to build over the next six weeks. |
| 1:09.0 | We've got six weeks until we see that model three |
| 1:12.0 | and the reservation frenzy begins which I fully |
| 1:14.3 | intend to be a part of. A quick funny thing before I started just random |
| 1:19.8 | Tesla thing that happened to me this week. I tweeted this out, but if you didn't catch it, I was at Target and I was, I remembered, oh, I need some belt dressing for a squeaky belt in my 10-year infinity and it was like okay yeah there's an auto |
| 1:36.4 | section on an automotive section in Target and they might not have this but it's worth |
| 1:40.5 | a look while I'm here anyway so So I go over I'm looking and |
| 1:43.6 | looking and then I see a familiar looking car on the front of one of the |
| 1:49.0 | labels of one of the products and it is a turtle wax brand spray detailer called ice. Big |
| 1:59.3 | capital letters I. C. E. Ice. And the funny thing of course is what car was on the front of this |
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