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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 83: Model 3 Goes Beta

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

 

The new Model 3 test fleet might be a further-along version of the car than we thought, Elon Musk plans to implement the suggestion of a 5th-grade Tesla enthusiast, find out where Tesla ranks in its first time on Consumer Reports' Top 10 auto brands, and more!

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0:00.0

On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast,

0:03.6

the new Model 3 test fleet might be a bit further along version of the car

0:07.9

than we thought.

0:09.1

Elon Musk plans to implement the suggestion of a fifth grade Tesla enthusiast,

0:13.5

find out where Tesla ranks in its first time on the Consumer Reports

0:17.0

Top 10 Auto Brands list and more. The Hey everybody Ryan McCaffrey here with Ride the

0:42.6

Lightening the Tesla unofficial podcast. It's episode 83 for March 5th, 2017.

0:48.0

I am in a especially cheery mood today because I got some great news on Maggie the Boxer.

0:54.6

As many of you know, her ongoing health issues, but one of the underlying ones for the

0:59.6

last few years has been Maggie's heart condition. She has a condition called Boxer Cardiomyopathy, which is a sort of heart

1:06.4

arrhythia basically that's I was lucky enough to catch relatively early and it's been

1:11.1

medicated and treated with a cardiologist.

1:13.0

Well, every year, she gets a 24-hour heart monitor strapped to her

1:19.2

so they can check for couplets and arrhythmia and just warning signs that the heart's not doing well.

1:25.6

So we just did that this past week and I just wanted to share an excerpt of the cardiologist email verbatim because it was just so

1:36.0

such good news

1:38.0

pretty much the best possible news other one other than

1:42.0

hey Ryan she's magically cured and doesn't have a heart

1:44.8

condition anymore that will obviously never happen but the EKG went well the ultrasound

1:50.1

went well and here is the cardiologist saying it is hard to get he

1:55.1

emailed me the results it's hard to get better than this she only had 10

1:59.2

premature ventricular complexes over the whole 24 hours that is nothing and would be

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