Episode 42: Preparing to Build the Model 3
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week brings a number of miscellaneous Model 3 updates, including reservation count, battery provider, capital raising, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, we go through a number of |
| 0:04.8 | miscellaneous model three updates including reservation count, battery providers, capital |
| 0:10.8 | raising, and more. What's happening, |
| 0:23.0 | happening, |
| 0:25.0 | what's happening? |
| 0:26.0 | What's happening, |
| 0:32.0 | what's happening, friends? Welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial |
| 0:36.2 | Podcast. It's episode number 42 for May 22, 2016. And what can I tell you? I've had a bit of a frustrating week it's it's sort of a |
| 0:46.4 | just busy stressful time at work getting ready for E3 which is the Electronic |
| 0:51.7 | Entertainment Expo which is the sort of big time of year. |
| 0:55.0 | It's always, it's difficult and stressful to prepare for, but then it's super fun when we get there. |
| 0:59.8 | But I'll tell you, on the Tesla front, the model three front specifically I have been |
| 1:04.6 | frustrated lately because I'll tell you I you know I want to I don't want to make |
| 1:09.2 | this too personal to you know you're here for Tesla stuff, not for me, but, you know, maybe this applies to some of you. |
| 1:15.6 | Maybe some people can relate to this, I don't know, but I just can't seem to get ahead financially |
| 1:20.6 | with my, with my model three goal. I have just not been able to save for this car |
| 1:24.6 | and it's it's it's causing me anxiety it's stressing me out because I'll tell you every |
| 1:31.3 | time something good happens like a raise at work or what have you |
| 1:35.2 | Something else always seems to drag me back down whether it's recently I had to do a $2,000 clutch on my infinity. |
| 1:45.0 | You know, that's an unavoidable thing. |
| 1:47.4 | You can't not do that. |
| 1:48.6 | I babied it for with a bum clutch for I think four or five months before finally giving in. |
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