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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 37: Meet the New Model S

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The Model S finally gets its long-anticipated refresh. Meanwhile, Model X gets a good and a bad surprise, there’s a sign that Model 3 might be indeed be getting a heads-up display, and more!

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0:00.0

Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors unofficial podcast, the Model S finally gets its long anticipated refresh.

0:07.2

Meanwhile, Model X gets a good and a bad surprise. There's a sign that Model 3 might indeed be getting a heads up display and more. Oh, Welcome to the podcast, it's Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial

0:38.9

Official Podcast episode 37 for April 17th 2016. My name is Ryan McCaffrey. Thank you for joining me and it is yet

0:46.0

another busy week of Tesla news. The fun just never seems to stop in the world of

0:51.7

Tesla folks.

0:52.8

That's what I've learned over the last eight plus months

0:56.4

doing this podcast.

0:57.8

In fact, I was just looking at the episode list

1:01.2

and I have not not I've done one

1:03.5

podcast one episode that's under 44 minutes long over the last three months

1:10.3

including including this one because I already know even though I'm just sitting down to record

1:14.1

that this is going to be a long one there's just so much to get to so it has been

1:18.5

super busy but in such a fun way and it's only just getting started. So I thought we'd start today and go in an order

1:27.8

of S E and X just like Elon wanted before Ford had to go and ruin all the fun.

1:35.0

So S3X, we'll start with Model S and the refresh.

1:40.3

It finally happened, it had been rumored forever.

1:43.0

Everybody had been kind of really expecting it and looking for it for a while.

1:46.0

Now what we did not get was the 100 kilowatt hour battery that was unceremoniously outed by by Jason Hughes some some time ago we

1:58.0

talked all about that and the how what an awesome find that was and how he put the hex code out there to be decoded. So no 100

2:06.6

kilowatt hour battery with this, no model X auto opening or closing doors or model X

2:14.1

auto opening or closing doors or model X seats. A lot of people were kind of looking for maybe the model X seats to potentially hit the S.

2:18.7

But we did all as expected We took the model S nose cone which is long

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