Episode 315: Does a $25k 'Model 2' Already Exist? Plus: I Drove the Plaid!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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A new report suggests that a prototype of Tesla's $25k "Model 2" might already exist. Plus: Giga Texas hits a new production milestone, I got to drive a Model S Plaid, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast a new report suggests that a prototype of Tesla's 25,000 dollar model two might already exist |
| 0:11.0 | plus giga Texas hits a new production milestone. I got to drive a model S. Plaid and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 315 of Ride the Lightning for August 15th, 2021, Daisy the Boxer to my left. |
| 0:46.9 | And let me start right there with her, actually, because so many of you have expressed |
| 0:50.5 | such kindness and concern for her as she continues to recover from her heart |
| 0:54.8 | condition, had her six-month follow-up. |
| 0:58.5 | This was a big one. |
| 0:59.8 | Had that this week and the news was thankfully once again good. Her heart is now pretty much down to normal size. |
| 1:08.4 | Her heart functions or her heart muscle, the strength of her heart pumping is still not there that's still in a |
| 1:15.2 | not great place but it does continue to improve little by little so actually we got to |
| 1:21.6 | cut off one of the medications, which was great. |
| 1:24.5 | So we're still, we've still got a whole battery of stuff. |
| 1:27.4 | But she continues to do well, and that really nothing makes me happier than that. |
| 1:32.3 | So I'm extremely grateful for that |
| 1:34.5 | good news and by the way I guess I should say the cardiologist I asked point blank |
| 1:39.4 | has it been long enough where you can definitively say one way or the other that yes this |
| 1:44.9 | was definitely a food-induced a diet-induced situation and she said oh yeah it |
| 1:50.6 | definitely is she would not have made this good of a recovery if this were a genetic situation. |
| 1:57.7 | So definitely food induced so Daisy got bit by this whole grain-free thing which I want to thank a couple of you out there |
| 2:06.5 | sent me an article while I was on vacation about |
| 2:10.8 | Peas and lentils being sort of a big specific piece of the puzzle here |
| 2:16.7 | according to some new research by Tufts University so again I'm not one to |
| 2:21.6 | tell anybody what to do with their lives. |
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