Episode 36: Elon Reveals Many More Model 3 Details
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2016
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Model 3 is a bigger hit than even Tesla expected. So now what? Plus: Elon Musk drops a ton of new information during an impromptu Twitter AMA, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride, the lightning the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, the Model 3 is a bigger hit than even Tesla expected. |
| 0:07.1 | So now what? |
| 0:08.3 | Plus, Elon Musk drops a ton of new information to get impromptu Twitter AMA and much more. The All right, welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:39.8 | episode 36 for April 10th, 2016. |
| 0:43.5 | First off, I want to welcome any new folks to the podcast. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm thank you for giving it a try. |
| 0:48.2 | Last week's episode, episode 35 was my most downloaded episode yet. And'm really glad because honestly aside from the |
| 0:56.5 | Peking audio issues that were on the men on the street interviews and by the way I |
| 1:00.8 | apologize for that I realized after the fact that I was like oh man I got this wrong I thought I had my levels right did not anyway I'm overall I'm actually very proud of how that episode turned out. I feel really good about it. |
| 1:14.3 | I hope it gave you a bit of a sense of what it was like to camp out overnight and wait in line for the |
| 1:19.7 | model three and also a bit of what it was like to be at the model three events. |
| 1:24.7 | So again if you're new to the podcast, thank you for tuning in. |
| 1:29.1 | I do appreciate it. |
| 1:30.1 | Now on to the big stuff for this week in Tesla News and it is virtually all model 3 related as you might |
| 1:37.8 | imagine. |
| 1:38.8 | There is actually there's a lot more follow-up this week than I anticipated. I really thought, hmm, you know, it could just |
| 1:45.0 | be quiet for a while after the big model three reveal. Not the case. In fact, quite the opposite, |
| 1:51.2 | thanks to your favorite CEO in mind Elon Musk. |
| 1:55.0 | So we know that we have over 325,000 of us |
| 2:01.0 | have put down model three reservations already. Now based on |
| 2:05.2 | Elon's tweets the the car has clearly crushed even their own internal |
| 2:10.9 | expectations. |
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