Episode 189: Model Y Reveal Event Reactions
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The Model Y has been revealed! I was lucky enough to attend the event in-person. Stay tuned for all the details and analysis of the announcement. Why ask 'Y'? Let's just ride! (And yes, that means I have impressions from my test ride in the Model Y prototype!)
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast the model why has been revealed I was very lucky I got to be at the event and attend the thing in person and check it out |
| 0:10.6 | Stay tuned for all the details and analysis of the announcement. Why ask why? |
| 0:16.1 | Let's just ride. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left Daisy the boxer puppy who is currently gnawing on the bone marrow of well I don't know what |
| 0:46.2 | animal that came from but that bones been well worth the money it's lasted quite a while |
| 0:50.4 | she is happy and so am I I was so lucky I got to attend the model |
| 0:55.9 | why unveiling down at the Tesla design studio in Hawthorne California within |
| 1:00.9 | Los Angeles there my second time to that place after being in the same |
| 1:05.6 | spot for the model three reveal almost three years ago to the day. That was March |
| 1:10.7 | 31st 2016 this one was March 14th, of course 2019. So I want to jump right in, get |
| 1:18.5 | right to it. I've got a lot to talk about this week. We'll go over of course everything |
| 1:22.4 | about the model why my |
| 1:23.9 | impressions of it I did get a test ride. I'll tell you what I thought of it both |
| 1:27.8 | sort of being able to see it in person but also get a quick ride in it. |
| 1:32.6 | And then I certainly want to address, |
| 1:34.8 | there was another bit of huge Tesla news this week. |
| 1:38.2 | The walking back of some of the policy and pricing decisions that have been rolled out over the |
| 1:44.7 | last the previous couple of weeks so I can't let this episode go by without |
| 1:49.3 | addressing that even though it's going to be a heck of a gear shift from the excitement of the |
| 1:55.4 | Model Y unveil to talk about that but certainly need to cover that. So |
| 1:59.1 | starting with the model Y. Let's go over the specifics real quick if you haven't seen them |
| 2:05.1 | They will look mighty familiar to you if you've poked around the model three design studio at any point in recent time. The standard range, Model Y, starts at $39,000 with a |
| 2:19.2 | 230 mile range battery with availability on that one specifically in early 2021 according to Tesla whereas the |
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