Episode 307: Plaid Model S Owner Gives His 1-Week Impressions
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
One of the owners of the first 25 Model S Plaid cars joins me to talk about his impressions of the car after one week of ownership. Plus: Jay Leno discusses his experience with the Plaid, good news for future Tesla and EV owners in a couple places around the world, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, one of the owners of the first 25 Model S plaids joins me to talk about his impressions of the car after one week of ownership. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus, Jay Leno discusses his experience with the plaid, good news for future |
| 0:16.3 | Tesla and EV owners in a couple of places around the world and more. What's happening, happening, I'm Ryan McCaffrey, |
| 0:33.0 | alongside the |
| 0:44.0 | snoozing Daisy the boxer puppy to my left. First up, happy Father's Day to my |
| 0:49.1 | fellow dads out there, the official published date of this podcast. maybe you don't hear it on Father's Day, |
| 0:55.0 | but it is out on June 20th. |
| 0:57.0 | This is episode 307, so happy Father's Day to all of my fellow dads out there. |
| 1:03.1 | Now coming up a little something special |
| 1:05.1 | on this week's episode. |
| 1:06.5 | After the news block, so I'll go through the usual round |
| 1:08.9 | to Tesla news, as I always do. |
| 1:10.9 | I've got an interview with Emmett Peppers. He's one of the lucky first |
| 1:15.1 | model S plaid owners. He got to take delivery at the launch event that I was |
| 1:20.0 | fortunate enough to attend last week. Now I know I promised that the hotline calls |
| 1:24.7 | that I didn't do last week because of the plaid event would come back this week |
| 1:28.7 | but I could not pass up the golden opportunity to chat with one of the as of now very very few |
| 1:35.5 | plaid owners there's a lot to ask Emmett about and I hope you enjoy that interview I |
| 1:40.4 | had fun talking to him so I pinky swear promised that the hotline |
| 1:44.4 | calls will come back next week so keep your calls coming I am hearing them I am |
| 1:49.6 | logging them for the next episode if you want to call in something in the world of |
| 1:53.7 | Tesla that you want to comment on you've got a question, give me a call toll-free |
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