Episode 312: Tesla Sweeps Podium in 1,000-Mile EV Race
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Tesla takes all three top spots in Car & Driver's 1000-mile EV race, legacy Model S owners are being faced with a tough choice on in-car connectivity, the Tesla Semi might finally be about ready to go into production, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning in the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla takes all three top spots in car and driver's 1,000 mile EV race. |
| 0:10.0 | Legacy Model S owners are being faced with a tough choice on in-car connectivity. |
| 0:15.3 | The Tesla Semi might finally be about ready to go into production and more. And the What's happening, friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey and this is Ride the Lightning episode |
| 0:43.9 | 312 for July 25th 2021 to my left on the couch Ed McMahon style. It's Daisy |
| 0:49.7 | the boxer who celebrated her fourth birthday this week. |
| 0:53.0 | Happy birthday, Daisy. It's been a good week. |
| 0:55.0 | She seems to be doing well, |
| 0:58.0 | and I have her next appointment coming up |
| 1:01.0 | in a couple weeks where she'll get her heart checked out and see what |
| 1:04.7 | her progress is because it'll be the six month update since she was first treated. This all happened in February. |
| 1:10.8 | So in just a couple weeks we've got that six month update really, really I'm excited for it because she's been, I'm not dreading it, you know, she's been making good progress, hopefully she will continue to do so. |
| 1:21.0 | Hey, before I get the show started this week, I wanted to give a shout out to the loyal |
| 1:26.9 | and clearly enthusiastic listener in the White Toyota Rav 4 EV who spotted me on the freeway last weekend, pulled up alongside |
| 1:37.3 | me, gave me a thumbs up, and then when I rolled the window down, he yelled, |
| 1:41.5 | I love your podcast. I thought he was just checking out the car |
| 1:44.6 | which doesn't really happen here in the San Francisco Bay Area because I mean it's a good thing |
| 1:49.4 | model three's are everywhere they're pretty common it turned out he was a fan of the |
| 1:53.8 | podcast so to that gentleman I want to say to you I'm not sure if you heard me |
| 1:59.6 | but I yelled back you're driving a Tesla too. |
| 2:03.7 | I kind of wasn't sure what else to say. |
| 2:06.2 | I just thought it was pretty cool that he was a fan of my Tesla podcast |
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