Episode 84: Tesla Aims to Foil Its Aluminum Bodywork Backlog
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Tesla takes bold action to solve their bodywork backlog problem, the EPA is holding up your 100D delivery, Elon Musk makes a literal bet on the Powerpack 2, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | Tesla takes bold action to solve their bodywork backlog problem. |
| 0:08.4 | The EPA is holding up your 100D delivery. Elon Musk makes a literal bet on the Power Pack 2 and more. Oh, What's happening, Ryan McCaffrey with you here on Ride The Lightning, the Unofficial |
| 0:42.0 | Tesla Podcast for episode 84 on March on or joins me as well of course and I hope you've had a good week I've had a pretty |
| 0:54.7 | good week I've been enjoying the new Nintendo switch if you have not checked this |
| 0:58.8 | out yet you've probably heard about it maybe you've got kids asking about it. Maybe you've got one for yourself, but my goodness, |
| 1:05.3 | Zelda is so good. It is one of the best games in a while. I'll tell you for Tesla use, that switch is going to come with me on road trips where I know |
| 1:15.8 | they're going to be supercharger stops that is going to be an excellent way |
| 1:19.6 | to pass the time at superchargers is just bust out the switch, whether it's Zelda or some other game, just grab it and you'll be charged up before you know it. |
| 1:31.0 | But anyway, a lot of interesting little stories this week. Nothing |
| 1:35.9 | sort of earth-shattering but just again, there's always something I say it all the time. There's always |
| 1:40.4 | something interesting going on with Tesla and so I start this week |
| 1:45.2 | with the fact that you may recall that this has come up a couple times in calls and |
| 1:51.8 | and other places been talking on a couple times in calls and other places. |
| 1:53.0 | Been talking on a couple of recent episodes here |
| 1:56.5 | about Tesla's body shop backlog problem, |
| 2:00.0 | particularly in Tesla hotspots like Southern California and Marin County here in Northern California. |
| 2:07.8 | Well Tesla is now taking emergency action on that front as they are going to add 300 new authorized body |
| 2:17.7 | shops because these are all third-party shops you can't take the car |
| 2:21.5 | Tesla doesn't do the body work themselves. |
| 2:24.0 | But they're authorizing 300 new body shops in the quote next few weeks |
| 2:30.0 | following, I mean this has been building for some time. |
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