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

we get an up close look at Model 3's near final wheels.

Model X finally gets its crash test rating from the US government.

Elon Musk gives a hint about what the next-gen Tesla Roadster will be capable of and more. Oh, Good afternoon friends or at least it's the afternoon late afternoon as I record this I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is Ride the Lightning, the

Tesla Motors unofficial podcast episode number 98 for June 18th 2017 and I

want to say hello from Los Angeles.

I'm here in the high up floor of a high rise in downtown LA,

wrapping up my E3 convention, the Electronic Entertainment Expo,

which is what I've been in town for, and I've got another

thing after this, which I will not be able to do the podcast during, so I needed to knock it out

early this week. So so again I want to

apologize if I do miss any big Tesla news or I should say as you hear this if I

missed any big Tesla news on Friday or perhaps even Saturday.

I will pick it up on episode number 99 next week.

But yeah, I tell you, it's been a hectic week. Trade, if you have to work a trade show in your job

and whatever capacity you have to work that trade show,

in my case, it's media.

It is, it's hectic, it's tiring, but in our case, case e3 is fun it's like the Christmas morning of

video games where you get to unwrap all these new presents all these crazy

surprises so it's always a lot of fun. This is my 14th one.

So I've been around the block a few times.

A number of people, very nice people stop to say hello to me.

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