On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast,

Tesla starts production on the very first test fleet of model 3's.

We learn what battery size the model 3 won't have.

The P100D Ludacris Model S sets yet another quickness record and much more. Oh, Good day to you friends. I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast episode

number 80 for February 12th 2017 joined by a snoozing Maggie the Boxer who

we can't seem to go by without me worrying about her in some capacity.

She's recovered super well from her two big dental surgeries.

She had her follow-up, everything looks good.

I think I told you that last week, but she is not eating enough.

So just they have me weighing her once a week now and then we'll go from there.

But it's just like the poor dog. I'm just trying to get her healthy, but we're doing everything we can.

And I appreciate everybody's well wishes. Everybody always, most people ask about her on the Ride the Lightning calls or on emails and

appreciate you thinking about her but on to Tesla stuff this week you know while I

wouldn't quite say that the dam has burst just yet on model three information.

This is absolutely, I think, the biggest week of model three news

since arguably the week of the model three reveal almost 11 months ago already.

So let's not waste any time. We'll get right to it and we start right here with a huge

Reuters exclusive big hat tip to Reuters on this one.

Tesla is shutting down the Fremont production line during the week of

February 20th to begin quote test building the model 3 the shutdown is going to

allow Tesla to add capacity to the existing paint shop because obviously that

paint shop which currently handles both the S and the X and it's going to handle the three it's going to have to get a serious upgrade in order to handle that much higher of a volume.

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