On this week's episode, A Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors

officially changes its name.

One state tries to ban Tesla's sales model, but employees, owners, and fans

fight back.

A country in Europe uses a popular video game to try and woo Gigafactory

too and more. Oh, Howdy fellow Tesla fans? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors, although maybe not so much.

We'll get that in the second unofficial podcast. It's episode number 79 for February 5th, 2017.

Another rainy night here in San Francisco as I record it's been a wet winter

but at least we're officially out of the drought I wanted to start this week by

by noting something you know as I've mentioned before I'm

continually seeing more and more model X's in the Bay Area now which is to be

expected you know this is HQ for Tesla this is their home turf I see S's every day, X's are becoming nearly a daily site around here.

And I'll tell you, I, what I wanted to mention was that I spotted a multi-coat red model X on the road earlier this week

and it got me thinking you know of all of the model X's that I've seen, I feel like anecdotally red is by far with the X

the rarest color. Like I see a fair number of red S's, but I've literally seen in the entire time the

X has been out. I think I've seen three, maybe four red model X's so it seems to be just again purely anecdotal

but there the model X buyer seems to be less interested in red than the model S buyer, which I guess

makes a bit of sense if the X is going to be aimed a bit more at mom specifically women families whereas the S you know the

the we have statistics that show that the S is very much a dude mobile it's like

something like 80 forget what's like something like 80, forget what it was, something like 80% of registered

model S's work to men. And it is definitely a sport of car both in look and performance but yeah

nevertheless like I said I know it's anecdotal but the fact that there aren't that

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