Episode 284: Model Y Gets Unexpected Surprise + Expected 7-Seater
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The Model Y gets more affordable in the form of a Standard Range version and finally gets its 7-seater option. Plus: Tesla annihilates its previous record for vehicle deliveries in a quarter -- and a year, a new nugget of info about the Tesla Semi's Autopilot hardware setup, China takes back the record for biggest Supercharger in the world, 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 gets more affordable in the form of a standard-range version and finally gets its seven-seater option. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, Tesla annihilates its previous record for vehicle deliveries in a quarter and a year. |
| 0:16.5 | A new nugget of info about the Tesla Semi's autopilot setup. |
| 0:20.6 | China takes back the record for biggest supercharger in the world and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:50.0 | happening, friends, it's episode 284 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial for January 10, 2021. I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined on the couch to my left by |
| 0:55.8 | Daisy the Boxer and another busy week of Tesla News. Fortunately my week |
| 1:00.8 | started with something good which was the delivery of my Tesla tequila, that yes, I have no intention whatsoever to drink. |
| 1:09.0 | It will simply be a set display in the background of any I. G.N. video I'm on for as long as we're working |
| 1:16.8 | from home. So if you follow me on I. G. N. You watch my stuff on I. G.N. You can see it behind |
| 1:22.0 | me now in any of the videos I do but I'll tell you I did have a bit of a |
| 1:25.8 | strange delivery situation with my Tesla tequila so it wasn't shipped by UPS or FedEx |
| 1:31.9 | or any of the major ones I guess it was just a shipping company. It was alcohol, so apparently I'd heard from other folks that had ordered it online. It was supposed to be requiring a signature of an adult. So I'm hanging out on my |
| 1:46.9 | couch on New Year's Eve. So that was their last business day of the year. You know, the next |
| 1:52.4 | day was going to be a holiday |
| 1:53.4 | and then it was the weekend anyway. |
| 1:54.6 | So, okay. |
| 1:55.8 | And I'm just hanging out and it's in the morning. |
| 1:57.8 | It was about maybe 10.35 a.m. |
| 2:00.7 | And I happened to check my email. and in my email is a message from the shipping company that says |
| 2:06.2 | Oh, we attempted delivery at 1028 like just a few minutes prior and there was nobody home so we'll deliver it the next |
| 2:15.8 | business day which isn't going to be till Monday after the new year and I ended up |
| 2:20.9 | I tried to call and get it rescheduled and didn't have any luck there, but it was just so frustrating because clearly no one came to the door. There was no delivery |
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