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

Tesla fights back against another media report they allege is inaccurate.

A man and his son have their lives saved by their Model S.

Tesla announces their secondquarter deliveries and more. Oh, What's happening,

happening friends? Welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast episode 49 for July 10th, 2016.

My name's Ryan McCaffrey.

Good to be with you once again.

It is another Sunday or whatever happened to day

you happen to be listening.

And it's been a tough week for Tesla

in the sort of public relations since they've been sort of

taking it from a lot of different angles Elon out there having to fight the

company out there having to fight we're gonna get to get to all that in a bit. I want to start

it off with a little bit of good news and that's that I'm very excited to be going out, actually

after, shortly after this podcast posts on Sunday, I'm going out for a test drive in a model

X. Sadly, I'm not in a position to buy one, but my cousin Pat, who I've mentioned on the

show before from Arizona, who's got, he's been an early model S owner,

so he has a pre-autopilot car or a classic model S, as the community likes to refer to them.

He's had his eye on the X for a while.

He's a very tall guy.

He's got kind of a bad foot, so he has a, you know, the S is low, very low slung. It's not the easiest car for him to get in and out of and he's got

several big dogs so he he likes the X for a lot of reasons but being down in Arizona

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