Episode 449: Model 3 Ludicrous Specs Purportedly Leaked
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Fresh rumors about the new Model 3 Ludicrous give us its alleged release date as well as its specs! Plus: Tesla is sweetening the deal if you take delivery of a new car this quarter, Tesla executives Franz von Holzhausen and Lars Moravy visit Jay Leno’s Garage, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, fresh rumors about the new model 3 ludicrous give us its alleged release date as well as its specs. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus, Tesla is sweetening the deal if you take delivery of a new car |
| 0:15.8 | this quarter. Tesla executives Franz von Halshausen and Lars Moravi visit Jay Leno's |
| 0:21.0 | garage and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you alongside Daisy the Boxer who is currently looking longingly out the window out onto the street after we just got back from a nice long walk. |
| 0:53.0 | Relaxing, well she gets to relax, I get to do a podcast, which I am happy to do. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to your weekly Tesla podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | It is Ride the Lightning. |
| 1:01.0 | This is episode 449 for March 10th, 2024. I start with this appetizer |
| 1:09.0 | for you, and that is, might the Tesla fleet finally get watch key support, smart watch support, |
| 1:16.4 | at least for Apple watch? |
| 1:18.2 | Well, Elon Musk replied to a post by listener Danielle who asked not sure why the car can't be |
| 1:25.1 | unlocked using an Apple watch or other smart watch any chance this could be |
| 1:29.1 | incorporated and Elon did reply to this when she tagged him, and he said, |
| 1:33.8 | sure. So, will that actually come to fruition |
| 1:38.4 | with the one word answer of sure? |
| 1:40.8 | There's a decent chance. History tells us there's a decent chance. |
| 1:44.4 | Not every tweet that he says, sure, or okay to actually ends up turning into a feature, |
| 1:51.4 | but I would say they do at least as often as they don't |
| 1:55.8 | and if it does go onto the Tesla software team's feature cue it's obviously |
| 2:01.8 | going to take some amount of time to get done, especially depending |
| 2:05.4 | on what priority level that it's assigned when it goes on to that feature cue. |
| 2:10.0 | I mean, we've seen so many feature suggestions on X that Elon says yes to that take |
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