Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors on official podcast, the big 8.0 software

update is out and among the many improvements, a dog-friendly climate mode.

Plus Tesla sues Michigan for the right to sell direct to consumers, the model S gets hacked and more. Oh, What's happening everybody? Welcome to Ride the Lightning. It is the Tesla Motors

Podcast episode number 60 for September 25th, 2016.

I'm Ryan McCaffrey, thanks as always for joining me.

I wanted to start the show actually by thanking everybody,

including what had to be a number of new listeners, new folks from last week.

I noticed last week that I had my biggest single day of downloads ever in the now 60 episodes I've been doing this so thank you all so much and if you're a new

listener welcome I hope you enjoyed last week and I hope you stick around for a while

it's a week by week look at everything Tesla is up to and Elon Musk is up to so

buckle up here we go so I wanted to start actually by mentioning my wife's super thoughtful birthday gift that's relevant to this

audience because my wife knows like I'm really not you know some people are really into

clothes they like you, the nice new shirt or whatever,

the new sort of fashion thing is.

Some people like, you know, they like to go to the bar every week.

Whatever your thing is, I don't really have a thing that costs money

I like to just be out and walk my dog and really it's just kind of me and Maggie and

whatever I'm up to with the family.

For me, cars have always been that one thing.

That one thing that I want to spend money on

and that matters to me and that I'm passionate about

and it's important to me. Of course, you know, having

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