Hello, welcome to Carcast and Edmonds Podcast.

I was like, gosh, for a second it took me a second to realize which podcast we're doing today, but we're doing the

Edmonds and a carcast podcast. Welcome back.

Is the clue not in who you're looking at? It is. I am literally looking at you.

It's kind of an off day for both of us.

I've got out of my sick bed to be here.

So if I sound a bit off, ladies and gentlemen, that's why.

Sunday evening.

Yeah, yeah, we're doing a yeah, it's kind of a it's it's a hectic week next week so we don't really have time to get into doing the

podcast on the regular schedule. So we're going to have to do it on the Sunday night and you had to drive back into town from a little family vacation.

But I appreciate it. Thanks for coming in to being able to do this. But I want to get into a few things. You had mentioned a little while back that a new model three is going to be on the way right everybody's talking

cyber truck these days but the model three is such an important car for Tesla and

there's been some revisions to it.

So I want to get into that and you guys are buying one, correct?

Or do you buy?

We bought one.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, the Model three was the car that really started Tesla's big take off.

It was the car that, you know, it was their sort of model T moment, and it was a big deal for the

electric car market generally, because if you think about when it first came out, you know, what was around. There's stuff like the, you know, the Nissan Leaf and it was all fairly pedestrian and not very excited. I suppose the only one that really stood out at that time was the

B&WI-3, but the Tesla was quite a different proposition. It was bigger, it was faster, it went further.

This was a proper kind of like really desirable electric car at an achievable price point and

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