Episode 441: New Model 3 (aka Highland) Arrives in North America

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 14 January 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The new Model 3, formerly codenamed Project Highland, has now officially launched in North America. Plus: new builds of Model S and Model X get a welcome improvement, Foundation Series Cybertrucks started getting delivered to regular, non-Tesla-employee customers, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the new model three formerly
0:06.3	code named Project Highland has now officially launched in North America.
0:11.5	Plus, new builds of model S and Model X get a welcome improvement.
0:16.1	Foundation series Cybertrucks started getting delivered to regular non-T Tesla
0:21.1	employee customers and more. What's happening, happening, what's happening,
0:34.0	friends, I'm Ryan McCaffray joining you for episode 441 of
0:48.6	Ride the Lightning. It is your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast, this one for January 14th, 2024.
0:56.7	Well, I have to say probably like many of you,
1:00.2	I've been watching as many cyber truck videos as I can possibly consume with my eyeballs since the launch.
1:08.0	And a great new one this week that I watched was called How to Get Fingerprints off of the Cyber Truck.
1:16.0	It was a video by a gentleman named Colton. He runs the Out of Speck detailing YouTube channel.
1:22.0	He's a professional detailer in Colorado and I have to say it was great to see him a professional detailer
1:31.6	scientifically test a bunch of different professional car
1:35.3	detailing products and validate what I've been telling you for the past four
1:40.2	years about the cyber truck stainless steel and that is you know it by now because
1:45.8	I've said it a lot good old Windex is the best and easiest way to get fingerprints
1:52.3	off of the stainless steel. Here is a quick
1:55.2	clip from Colton's video. Can't believe I'm saying it but like Windex or a similar
2:01.3	glass cleaner is pretty good. I would honestly say Windex was a similar glass cleaner is pretty good.
2:03.0	I would honestly say Windex was the best out of these two.
2:06.0	And when he says these two right there, that's the two he narrowed down to by the end of the video after starting with a whole bunch more. In fact,
2:14.7	Colton then did a second video that just pitted a bunch of household cleaners
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