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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 89: Key Dates Revealed for Model 3, Semi-Truck, and Pickup Truck

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Business News, News, Automotive, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk gives dates for a whole bunch of key events pertaining to the future Tesla lineup -- and no, not just Model 3, not by a long shot! -- California EV drivers will soon have to pay a bit more each year, and more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

On this week's episode to Ride the Lightning, the unofficial Tesla podcast, Elon Musk gives dates for a whole bunch of key events pertaining to the future Tesla lineup and no not just model 3, not by a long shot, California EV drivers will soon have to pay a bit more each year and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I am coming to you, well recorded live of course from vacation yes a sunny beach on an island

0:46.1

I'm very very grateful to be here I really I really should just not do the podcast. People would understand if I took a vacation, right? Everybody

0:56.1

gets a vacation, but I've basically never, knock on wood, never missed a show. I remember I took one voluntary week off over the holidays

1:06.3

about what it was like four months whatever that first year was when I was doing it and

1:12.1

there was kind of nothing happening that week anyway.

1:14.0

But I've been so lucky to build up enough momentum with this

1:18.0

podcast and get enough people where, you know,

1:20.0

it's people like the consistency.

1:22.0

I definitely have learned that and if you

1:25.1

disrupt that consistency they tend to unsubscribe and leave but so I thought well

1:32.0

I better keep it going I did this last year I did a show from vacation

1:35.8

So here again I'm not not I'm not looking for brownie points at all I'm just trying to explain my thought process

1:42.0

So and also set up what I'm about to say

1:44.7

which is I hope you all will forgive me because we return late Saturday night next week and so I'm already doing one

1:56.3

I've already doing one podcast for vacation I really don't want to do a second one

2:01.2

so if you if you will all forgive me, I will put the show

2:05.2

together. I'll get it prepped and recorded and done right when I get back like

2:10.0

that night and the next morning. So if you'll forgive me next week's show

2:14.7

episode 90 will be about 24 hours late. So every single other podcast has always

2:21.8

hit right at 9 a.m. Eastern time on every Sunday

2:25.8

so I just hope you'll forgive me this one time for being on vacation.

2:31.6

Anyway let's get to the Tesla news

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