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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 63: Tesla's Mystery Product Announcement

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Business News, News, Automotive, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Model S totally dominates its market, one Model X version disappears, Tesla gets set to make an unexpected product announcement, Germany makes the biggest commitment to electric vehicles a country can possibly make, and much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, totally dominates its market.

0:06.3

One Model X version disappears.

0:09.1

Germany makes the biggest commitment to electric vehicles a country can possibly make, and much more. Oh, Hey everybody welcome to ride the lightning it is the Tesla Motors

0:37.8

unofficial podcast coming at you every Sunday with a new episode at 9 a.m.

0:42.3

Eastern time I'm Ryan McCaffrey and I wanted to start the show with the most sincere of apologies. I realized I made a terrible mistake not long after last week's show, episode 62, went

0:56.8

live and I was trying to think, well, what should I do about this?

1:01.3

Do I upload a new version of the show, replace it, but then some people have the new one, some people have the old one. I figure, well, I made a mistake. Let me just own up to it, just own it, and apologize for it next week, which is right now.

1:15.0

I was able to update the title of last week's episode and the description to acknowledge this,

1:22.0

but as some of you no doubt recognized and... and the the name and added the the updated description did not pile on me for this I do

1:35.9

appreciate it and it's I got the the discontinued color you know with last

1:41.4

week I talked about two discontinued colors, solid white. And the other one, I just human error. I completely got it wrong. Now, hopefully you can understand this mistake but it was a mistake and I I feel

1:56.5

awful about it because I just gave you wrong information and that's something that you know I have a journalism

2:03.8

degree I've been doing this a long time I take this podcast very seriously I mean I

2:08.8

have fun with it but I take the responsibility of it and the the fact that a lot of people

2:13.4

listen to it and enjoy it very very seriously.

2:15.8

I just screwed up last week.

2:17.3

So I had said that silver metallic, as Maggie the boxer drinks up in the background, I had said that Silver

2:26.7

metallic was discontinued. I'd spotted the thread on the Tesla Motors Club forum and then I went on to the

2:36.0

the actual design studio to look for myself and just just kind of took the quick glance and so

2:40.3

oh yeah there's fewer colors here and I just you know I it's I won't make excuses I mean it's it's the busy I could but I'm not going to I just screwed this up I said it was metallic silver which is you know just silver that that was one of the two

2:55.4

discontinued colors it's not I said oh well this is the second time it's been

3:00.6

killed off nope it's been killed off and brought back once,

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