Episode 239: 'Congratulations, Your Model Y Is Ready for Delivery'
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Model Y deliveries are imminent, Hot Wheels is offering you a chance to get your hands on a (toy) Cybertruck this year while we wait for the real thing, Model 3 is officially one of the overall best-selling cars in California, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Model-wide deliveries are imminent. |
| 0:06.2 | Plus, Hot Wheels is offering you a chance to get your hands on a toy cyber truck |
| 0:10.8 | this year while we wait for the real thing next year. |
| 0:13.6 | Model 3 is officially one of the overall best-selling cars in California and more. Oh, Howdy friends Ryan McCaffry with you for episode 239 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:44.8 | Podcast, this one for March 1st, 2020, Daisy the Boxer Puppy, snoozing to my left. |
| 0:51.2 | And it's been a good week. |
| 0:52.2 | I've had a fun week my first week back really fully |
| 0:55.3 | in action because I was sick a couple weeks ago then I was traveling all last |
| 0:59.6 | week so had a really good week back kind of in the groove here, feeling good. |
| 1:04.4 | And I was feeling extra good on the Tesla side of things last weekend. |
| 1:09.3 | I was heading down the peninsula here in the Bay Area to visit my brother-in-law and I saw I |
| 1:14.7 | looked to my right I was in the I think either the far left lane or the the |
| 1:18.0 | second lane from the the left I looked over and I saw a blue Tesla I'm like oh |
| 1:22.4 | that's not a model three that's a |
| 1:23.9 | why so I pointed it out to my wife and we I backed off on my speed and let the |
| 1:30.3 | why come by sure enough it had manufacturer plates on it so definitely a |
| 1:35.5 | Tesla employee driving it it's the first one that I have seen since reveal night |
| 1:41.8 | you know I was lucky enough to get to go to reveal night |
| 1:44.0 | almost exactly a year ago last March and that one was blue at least the |
| 1:50.3 | working one the working prototype was blue and so was this one and it was looking very sharp in |
| 1:56.6 | daylight it was really nice to see it out in natural light outside and yeah it |
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