Episode 291: Standard Range Model Y Discontinued
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Tesla surprises everyone by taking the brand-new Standard Range Model Y off the menu just a month after it was added. Plus: Tesla has insane EV market share in 2020, your in-car preferences may soon follow you to any other Teslas you happen to drive, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla surprises everyone by taking the brand new standard range model Y |
| 0:08.4 | off the menu just a month after it was added. |
| 0:11.9 | Plus, Tesla has insane EV market share in 2020. |
| 0:16.4 | Your in-car preferences may soon follow you to any other Tesla's |
| 0:20.4 | you happen to drive and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 291 of |
| 0:46.4 | Ride the Tesla on official podcast this one for the end of February |
| 0:50.0 | February 28th 2021 on my left Daisy the Boxer just looking out the window, still awake |
| 0:56.0 | for now, but that never lasts while I record this show. And for those of you kindly |
| 1:01.2 | asking, the next appointment for her is early this week. |
| 1:06.0 | So on next week's podcast, I will have an update. They're going to take a new Chest X-ray to check on her heart size and the fluid in her lungs. So here's |
| 1:15.8 | hoping that I have some good news to share on next week's podcast. All right, well |
| 1:21.6 | I've got plenty of Tesla stuff to talk about. |
| 1:24.3 | Nari, a week goes by without there being a lot to talk about, which is great when you happen |
| 1:29.4 | to do a weekly Tesla podcast. |
| 1:32.4 | So let's start this week with the big story. |
| 1:35.2 | Remember everything, and I mean everything that I said last week about the standard range |
| 1:40.1 | model wise price drop? |
| 1:41.9 | Yeah, forget about all of that because the standard range Model Y |
| 1:47.0 | has been pulled off the menu. |
| 1:49.0 | It is no longer available. |
| 1:51.0 | It's like that classic South Park bit. |
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