Episode 343: New Model S Gets Minor Refresh
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
The new Model S gets even newer with an update to its taillights, headlights, and Autopilot hardware. Plus: Tesla climbs up the charts of the most desired luxury brands, good news for those of you looking for a discount on your Premium Connectivity subscription, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the new Model S gets even newer with an update to its tail lights, headlights, and autopilot hardware. |
| 0:09.7 | Plus, Tesla climbs up the charts of the most desired luxury brands. |
| 0:14.0 | Good news for those of you looking for a discount on your premium connectivity subscription and more. The What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 343 that's a palindrome of |
| 0:44.8 | Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for February 27th |
| 0:49.6 | 2022 to my left Daisy the boxer and I am recording early this week Thursday night. |
| 0:56.0 | I will explain why I'm doing that towards the end of the show, but I say that because I need to put |
| 1:01.6 | out the usual caveat that is this. |
| 1:04.4 | If I happen to miss anything big that happens at the end of the week, |
| 1:08.2 | please accept my apologies and I will be sure to discuss it and |
| 1:11.7 | analyze it on next week's podcast. I promise you. Speaking of the |
| 1:17.0 | period between when I record and when the show publishes, I did get bit by that last week because as I told you on the show last week, April 1st was going to be the date for the giga Texas grand opening, and then not long after I put the show to bed and |
| 1:35.6 | uploaded it Elon changed it April 7th is in fact the new date and as of this recording on late Thursday night |
| 1:45.6 | February 24th April 7th is still correct. |
| 1:50.3 | By the way before I get going with the news this week and as usual there is plenty of it |
| 1:55.4 | I want to say that I hope Kayley and her fiance listen to the entire show this week |
| 2:01.8 | Kayley that's a hint. |
| 2:03.4 | All right, let's get rolling. |
| 2:04.7 | First up, the headline story, |
| 2:07.1 | Remember the new Model S tail lights |
| 2:10.2 | that I talked about a few shows back? |
| 2:12.0 | Well, that was spotted on a showroom car in Taiwan underneath a cover in a Tesla |
| 2:18.2 | showroom. It wasn't supposed to be revealed yet, but it put pictures of it made its way on the internet well it is now |
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