Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast,

Model 3 visits the Gigafactory and gets a ludicrous mode,

plus Model 3 battery info, exact tire sizes, and more. What's happening everybody? Welcome to Ride the Lightning

the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast episode 39 for May 1st 2016. My name is

Ryan McCaffrey and it is good to be home.

I think maybe I'm a little spoiled by seeing so many Tesla's on a daily basis here in Tesla's

home turf of the San Francisco Bay Area, but I was out in Boston at Pax Prime, which is a big video game show convention.

And I gotta say, you know, I'm always, I was walking around the city a lot. I like, I prefer to walk whenever I can. I only spotted four or five in the four

or five days I was there down in the heart of Boston, just downtown. I have to say I was especially surprised at that given

how well dual motor cars in particular dual motor Tesla's perform in snow

which Boston gets plenty of in the winter, because I did in fact see a really shocking number of crazy high-end cool cars,

few on Newbury Street, which was quite the Ritzy Street, but a few others just around the city as well. I saw a couple Bentley's. I saw a Lamborghini Huracan I saw Ferrari two or three Nissan

GTRs Boston bringing its a game in the car department I figure their owners must be thrilled that the snow's

melted and that they can take them out. It was almost comforting though to be home

and see so many Tesla's and see them everywhere, even though I don't have one myself.

And on the comforting note, I was not comforted by a winning Model X raffle email from Peter Kearsgarde, but we in fact, yeah, he did not win the

ludicrous Model X and thus by extension neither did I from the referral

program the drawing was on Friday but I am very grateful to have had an opportunity

so to the two folks who actually used Peter's referral code,

thank you very much for giving Peter and thus myself a chance

at that Model X, I'm glad that you got your $1,200 charging credit to help get yourself set up at home for your new Model S.

And of course, thanks to Peter for his amazingly generous offer. I'll have to continue being the wide-eyed kid with his face

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