Episode 279: Where Is the 7-Seat Model Y?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk talks Tesla as he accepts an award in Germany. Plus: the Model Y gets closer to reality in China but the 7-seat Model Y is MIA in America, more evidence that 5G connections might show up in new Teslas soon, and much more in a crazy-busy news week!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, Elon Musk talks Tesla as he accepts an award in Germany. |
| 0:07.3 | Plus, the Model Y gets closer to reality in China, but the seven-seat model Y is MIA in America, more evidence that 5G |
| 0:16.4 | connections might show up in new Tesla soon and much more. What's happening friends? Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 279 of |
| 0:45.7 | Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial podcast for December 6th, 2020 and let me |
| 0:51.4 | start by getting the big story story the big follow-up from last week out of the way first and I'll let |
| 0:57.3 | Rich from Seattle tell us about it. |
| 0:59.7 | Hi Ryan, Rich from Seattle here, how you doing? |
| 1:03.2 | I'm sure your 17.8 billion followers have already noted this but it's |
| 1:08.2 | applique, not applique. |
| 1:09.9 | It's according to my high school French teacher |
| 1:14.0 | which sounds way better than a fleek. Anyway, |
| 1:16.7 | glad the Model X Oplique is getting fixed. |
| 1:19.6 | Talk to you soon, bye. |
| 1:21.2 | Yes, Rich, thank you so much and thank you to everybody who let me know, very politely I might add, |
| 1:27.3 | how very wrong I was in pronouncing Appleke on last week's show and the funny part of course in hindsight is that I got it wrong over and over again |
| 1:38.0 | while doing that story. It just goes to show you that my journalism degree does not give me all of the same powers as an |
| 1:46.0 | English degree. But now I know. See, I learned something new, which is always good. |
| 1:50.9 | Now speaking of Ride the Lightning Hotline phone calls, I need more of them. |
| 1:56.0 | There are the well is dry because in part all the all the extra ones that I haven't been able to |
| 2:01.7 | get to on the regular shows here have just |
| 2:04.5 | gone into the December Patreon bonus episode so that one is for a the ludicrous tier of of Patreon supporters and those |
| 2:16.9 | callers are the following people if you hear your name and you're not |
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