Episode 306: I Went To Plaid! (aka the Plaid Model S Delivery Event)
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The Plaid Model S finally gets delivered into the hands of the first batch of owners and I was lucky enough to get to be there to experience it. Meanwhile, the Plaid+ Model S has been canceled. Plus: longtime Tesla executive Jerome Guillen has left the company, another update on the status of the city-streets FSD beta 9 build, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | the Plaid Model S finally gets delivered into the hands of the first batch of owners |
| 0:07.8 | and I was lucky enough to get to be there to experience it. |
| 0:11.0 | Meanwhile, the Plaid Plus Model S has been cancelled. Plus, longtime Tesla |
| 0:16.4 | Executive Jerome Guyan has left the company, another update on the status of |
| 0:20.6 | the city streets full self-driving |
| 0:22.5 | Beta 9 build and more. What's happening, |
| 0:45.0 | happening friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey alongside as always, Daisy the Boxer, and this is |
| 0:49.1 | Ride the Lightning episode 306 for June 13th, 2021. |
| 0:54.7 | There is so much to get to this week. |
| 0:56.8 | It's going to be a fun one. |
| 0:58.0 | I've been looking forward to the podcast all week, |
| 1:00.3 | especially after the Plaid event last night. |
| 1:03.3 | Talk about that momentarily. |
| 1:04.7 | But first, a quick programming note, actually it's not a programming note, |
| 1:07.6 | it's a personal note. |
| 1:08.9 | I wanted to mention to everybody because so many of you have been so kind |
| 1:12.0 | over these last months. |
| 1:13.0 | I wanted to mention Daisy continues to improve. |
| 1:16.6 | We had another cardiologist appointment this earlier this week and the news was good. |
| 1:22.2 | Her heart size is now down to the high side of |
| 1:26.2 | normal. Her heart function, meaning her actual heart muscle, is still weak, |
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