Episode 368: Interview: Unplugged Performance Cofounder Talks Tesla Mods
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Unplugged Performance cofounder Ben Schaffer joins me for a wide-ranging interview about how his Tesla aftermarket mod house got started, plus what mods they have in mind for the Cybertruck. Plus: follow-ups on the new EV tax credit, Tesla drops another included accessory with new Model 3 and Model Y deliveries, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unplugged Performance co-founder |
| 0:06.0 | Ben Schaefer joins me for a wide-ranging interview about how his Tesla Aftermarket |
| 0:10.7 | Modhouse got started, plus what mods they have in mind for the cyber truck. |
| 0:15.7 | Plus, follow-ups on the new EV tax credit, Tesla drops another included accessory |
| 0:21.6 | with new Model 3 and model wide deliveries and more The What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you alongside Daisy the Boxer |
| 0:48.7 | It is episode 368 of your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | It's called Ride the Lightning. |
| 0:54.9 | You know that. |
| 0:55.8 | For August 21st, 2022, though I am recording a bit early this week, |
| 1:00.8 | it is Thursday night rather than Friday night. I have kindly been |
| 1:05.2 | invited to a big delorian party down at pebble Beach. It's going to be the new |
| 1:10.5 | Delorian Alpha 5 EV prototype and a bunch of classic Delorians and some of my friends, people from |
| 1:17.0 | DMC and from the community, so I'm going to head down there for that on Friday night. So I'm going to get you a |
| 1:23.2 | podcast here on Thursday which for those of you backing me on Patreon will be |
| 1:27.8 | good news because you can listen to it a little earlier than normal. But this episode entirely is dedicated to my cousin Pat. He would have |
| 1:37.8 | been 65 years old this weekend and he had talked about for well over a year prior to now to this to what would have been his birthday today |
| 1:48.1 | He wanted to have the whole extended family all cousins, all of his siblings, down at a rented beach house on the New Jersey Shore, |
| 1:57.8 | which was for him a summer tradition growing up in New Jersey with his family. |
| 2:02.6 | In fact, we got to do that. |
| 2:04.6 | Pat rented a couple of houses, family flew in. |
| 2:07.8 | I was lucky to be there. |
| 2:09.2 | We did that for his 60th birthday. |
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