Episode 212: Good News for Model Y Customers
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Tesla adjusts the prices on the Model Y, and odds are you're going to be happy if you already have an order. Plus: updates on Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai AND a possible location for Gigafactory 4 in Europe, Tesla brings another service in-house, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.7 | Tesla adjusts the prices on the model Y and odds are you're going to be happy if you |
| 0:08.8 | already have an order. Plus updates on Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai and a possible location for |
| 0:15.6 | Gigafactory 4 in Europe Tesla brings another service in-house and more. What's happening, happening, friends, |
| 0:33.0 | it's |
| 0:34.0 | the |
| 0:35.0 | the ... |
| 0:36.0 | ... ... |
| 0:38.0 | What's happening |
| 0:42.0 | What's happening, friends, it's episode 212 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:45.7 | Podcast for August 25, 2019. |
| 0:49.2 | I am Ryan McCaffrey, to my left a snuggling almost sleeping Daisy the boxer puppy and if I sound |
| 0:55.5 | a little off this week I do apologize might sound a little nasally the cold that I |
| 1:00.7 | had at the end of last week decided to just work its way up and clog my sinuses |
| 1:07.0 | as it departed my system. |
| 1:10.3 | So it's still a little backed up in the old sinuses, but getting through it starting to feel a little bit better. |
| 1:18.0 | Anyway, happy Palindrome every 10 or so weeks to get one of these it's episode 212 reads the same way |
| 1:26.7 | forwards and backwards always fun to mark the palindromes now let's get right to it with the Tesla news. Sure enough, as I figured |
| 1:36.5 | last week by recording the show one night early, that did come back to bite me a little bit because on Friday we had some news and |
| 1:47.3 | that was pertaining to Model Y. Let's talk about it now. Model Y prices have been updated to reflect the recently adjusted model 3 prices. |
| 1:59.2 | So the good news is the prices are lower overall on the model why but the reason I have |
| 2:06.9 | to say sort of pause and say overall is because it doesn't look like it at an |
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