Episode 270: Tesla Sets Another Delivery Record
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Tesla sets a new all-time quarterly production and delivery record, the Model Y gets an optional acceleration boost, California announces a plan to become the first US state to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles, a couple of long-requested features are finally on the way, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.2 | Tesla sets a new all-time quarterly production and delivery record. |
| 0:07.2 | The Model Y gets an optional acceleration boost. |
| 0:10.2 | California announces a plan to become the first U.S US state to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles. |
| 0:17.0 | A couple of long requested features are finally on the way and more. What's happening, friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is episode 270 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:45.2 | for October 4th, 2020. Days of the Boxer hanging out behind me here. And it is yet another |
| 0:51.1 | busy week of Tesla News. |
| 0:52.5 | You know, I have to say I wasn't sure |
| 0:54.4 | if it would be quiet this week |
| 0:56.3 | because we had a big, big event last week, |
| 0:59.1 | a combo event, of course Battery Day |
| 1:01.8 | along with the annual shareholder meeting, but nope plenty of fun stuff happened this week too so stay tuned I've got a lot of fun topics to cover for you |
| 1:10.2 | Before I get going I wanted to quickly mention that this month's Patreon |
| 1:14.1 | bonus episode is up for those supporting at the appropriate tier there and it's a little |
| 1:19.8 | bit something different this time instead of the usual extra phone calls from the |
| 1:25.2 | Ride the Lighting Hotline, which is always fun to do, this time I'd, it's been so |
| 1:29.4 | busy with all things Tesla that several weeks ago I'd done an interview with a gentleman by the name of Sam |
| 1:36.2 | Vonderhide who started a quest with his kids to road trip in his model S to every single in and out burger location and there are |
| 1:46.4 | hundreds of them in the Western United States. So I ran that interview as the |
| 1:52.0 | Patreon exclusive bonus episode this month. |
| 1:54.6 | So if you have access to that, give it a listen and I'd love to hear what you think about it. |
| 2:00.3 | But otherwise now let's get rolling with this week's news starting with the big one. |
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