Episode 259: Major Model Y News
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Major Model Y news breaks that might disappoint some folks but should please a lot of others. Plus: Austin steps up their efforts to land the Cybertruck Gigafactory, Model 3's are maintaining a very high resale value, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, major model Y news that might disappoint some folks but should please a lot of others. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, Austin steps up their efforts to land the Cyber Truck Gigafactory, Model 3's are maintaining |
| 0:16.2 | a very high resale value and more. Oh, What's happening, what's happening, |
| 0:33.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:39.0 | What's happening, friends, |
| 0:40.0 | welcome to episode 259 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, this one for July 19th, |
| 0:45.9 | 2020. |
| 0:46.9 | Days to the boxer puppy snoozen behind me as usual at this time of the night. |
| 0:51.3 | Well I am in a very good mood. I'm very happy, very grateful. I got my model |
| 0:56.0 | three back from Immaculate Reflections repairing the damaged paint protection film. It is good new in fact it's better it's better |
| 1:05.1 | the new because they don't come out of the factory looking like that when when a |
| 1:10.0 | good detailer like Immaculate Reflections gets through with it. It looks better than new. |
| 1:15.1 | You get your paint correction, you know you get your ceramic coating on there. |
| 1:19.6 | Car looks great. I'm very thrilled just happy to have my mistake erased. Yes it cost me but you know what better |
| 1:27.9 | again for me better that than having to pay for paint repair or living with the damage. |
| 1:35.0 | So just very, very happy to have a better than new spirit of adventure back in my garage. |
| 1:41.0 | So thank you again to immaculate reflections for once again for |
| 1:45.9 | your fine craftsmanship. Quick programming note Tesla's Q2 earnings call is |
| 1:51.4 | next week so again look out for my quarterly highlights and analysis |
| 1:56.5 | episode next week, episode 260. Those are always a lot of work to put together, but man I always have a lot of fun doing them. I love how they turn out |
| 2:07.1 | It feels more I love those because at least to me I know I want this to feel kind of like a radio show because I love radio and I grew up |
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