Episode 241: Model Y Arrives + New Rumors
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The Model Y is being delivered to customers and we've got measurements and more. Plus: Elon Musk continues to contemplate where to build the next Gigafactory in the US, an in-car Easter egg has an Easter egg in it, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the Model Y is being delivered to customers and we've got measurements and more. |
| 0:08.0 | Plus, Elon Musk continues to contemplate where to build the next gigafactory in the United States, |
| 0:14.4 | an in-car Easter egg has an Easter egg in that and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:40.0 | happening, Ryan McCaffrey with you here on the March 15th episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:45.1 | podcast. It's episode 241, Daisy the Boxer Puppy is to my left chilling out, looking out the window. |
| 0:51.6 | And it's a big week, a big week in the world of |
| 0:53.6 | Tesla because the model Y has officially been delivered to customers I had a |
| 0:59.2 | contact Tesla reach out here on it's Friday the 13th as I record as usual Friday night and |
| 1:06.3 | A representative well a contact of mine at Tesla let's say did confirm that |
| 1:11.2 | deliveries happened today at his location and I'm sure people are |
| 1:15.1 | posting up across the various sites and communities as well so congratulations |
| 1:20.4 | to those of you out there in the very first wave of Model Y owners. |
| 1:26.0 | That is just fantastic news. |
| 1:28.0 | And again, I mentioned it last week. |
| 1:29.0 | If you're in the Bay Area and you have taken delivery or are about to take delivery, and you wouldn't mind showing me the car and maybe letting me interview you for the |
| 1:36.9 | podcast about what you think about it, drop me a line. Let me know. My email address |
| 1:40.7 | is Tesla Podcast at gmail.com. |
| 1:45.0 | All right, let me get started with the world of Tesla news this week and I begin, of course, no surprise, with the model |
| 1:52.0 | y, the model Y. The exterior dimensions and an interesting |
| 1:56.6 | maybe unexpected little software feature have been revealed this week |
| 2:01.3 | before the delivery |
| 2:02.8 | started, courtesy of Tasmanian. |
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