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Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Episode 92: Updates on Model Y, Model 3, Minibus, and More!

Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

News, Automotive, Business News, Leisure

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2017

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk drops a lot of interesting new information about Model Y, Model 3, the Minibus, and more by way of his TED Talk and the Q1 investor call. I've got so many Elon clips this week that he's practically my co-host!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

On this week's episode, A Ride the Lightning and the unofficial Tesla Podcast,

0:03.3

Elon Musk drops a lot of interesting new information about Model Y, Model 3,

0:08.4

the Minibus, and more by way of his TED Talk and the Q1 Investor Call.

0:13.6

Stay tuned for the highlights. Oh, What's happening, friends? Welcome to Ride The Lighting. It is the unofficial Tesla Motors

0:39.2

podcast episode 92 for May 7th, 2017. I am Ryan McCaffray, your host. I'm going to have a Maggie

0:46.5

the Boxer update for you that I'm going to save until the very very end of the show.

0:51.0

There's a lot of Tesla stuff to talk about and the Maggie stuff

0:56.3

will be separate later. So first of all I did want to note, remind me never to put semi-truck in an episode title ever again.

1:06.0

This last week's show, which I called something like Tesla Teases, the semi was the lowest downloaded show in months in

1:18.0

months so I have to presume that that's the reason why I don't know of any other reason why that would be the case.

1:26.0

I guess people really don't care about the semi truck but in any case that's that's yeah that's a risk, that's an experiment I'm not going to be willing

1:36.1

to run again.

1:39.0

Also, I could use some hotline calls.

1:41.0

There are, fortunately, a few ended up coming in towards the end of the week this week, which is great.

1:46.0

And in fact, it worked out such that there's so many Elon Musk clips, there's so much to get through this week from Elon's two big public appearances,

1:56.2

his TED Talk and his hour and 20 minute long Q1 investor call after the Q1 Tesla results.

2:06.5

I have got, let's see, literally,

2:08.1

it is 26 clips, I think all of which

2:12.1

have Elon are either Elon or have Elon in them.

2:15.0

So there's a lot of interesting new things that he because of course anytime Elon speaks

2:19.0

there's usually something interesting.

2:21.0

There's so much to get to this week that I'm actually not going to do the

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