Episode 70: Tesla Defeats Virginia Auto Dealers
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Tesla wins a battle against a dealership lobby in Virginia, Elon Musk sets a window for when new Tesla owners can expect to see their Autopilot functionality to come online, your thoughts on Tesla's recent HoloLens hire, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, Tesla wins a battle against a dealership lobby in Virginia. |
| 0:07.0 | Elon Musk sets a window for when new Tesla owners can expect to see their autopilot functionality coming online, |
| 0:13.7 | your thoughts on Tesla's recent hollow lens higher, and more. Oh, Happy Holidays friends welcome to Ride the Lightning. It is the Tesla Motors |
| 0:41.0 | Unofficial Podcast episode number 70 already for December 4th 2016 |
| 0:46.4 | It is officially the holiday season. I'm Ryan McCaffrey flanked as always by the one and only Maggie the boxer and it is good to be here for |
| 0:55.8 | boy it's 2016 is almost over already it's obviously been a huge busy year |
| 1:00.3 | for Tesla the of course announcement the reveal of the model three the |
| 1:05.7 | deliver really proper deliveries of the model X it has been the purchase of the solar |
| 1:12.0 | city merger it's been a heck of the Solar City merger. |
| 1:12.8 | It's been a heck of a year so far. |
| 1:14.9 | And I continue onward, of course. |
| 1:17.4 | December, I expect December to be a little quieter, |
| 1:20.7 | at least until, you know, the, we'll find out about Q4's profitability |
| 1:24.6 | probably right at the beginning of January Tesla will issue some sort of |
| 1:28.2 | release about it but a few interesting stories for this week I want to start by saying thank you to all of you |
| 1:35.0 | who sent me constructive emails and feedback about the audio problems that I ran into with |
| 1:41.0 | the Casey Spencer interview from last week. |
| 1:44.0 | Now I suppose in hindsight I could have and maybe should have just held on to it for a week and |
| 1:49.5 | then come on the air and asked you guys for help with it because I learned this week that there are some |
| 1:55.7 | awesome experts out there who could have really helped me fix up that that broken audio interview nicely. |
| 2:03.2 | So now I know for next time, |
| 2:05.4 | although hopefully there won't be a next time |
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