Episode 294: One Step Closer to Cybertruck Factory Deliveries
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Texas takes its first formal step towards legalizing the direct sales of Tesla vehicles -- and thus also allowing factory deliveries of Cybertrucks from Giga Texas. Plus: Tesla Tequila comes back in stock...but only for a brief moment, Elon Musk has a new title at Tesla, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.5 | Texas takes its first formal step towards legalizing the direct sales of |
| 0:07.7 | Tesla vehicles and thus also allowing factory deliveries of cyber trucks from |
| 0:12.4 | giga Texas. |
| 0:13.4 | Plus, Tesla Tequila comes back in stock, but only for a brief moment, |
| 0:18.4 | Elon Musk has a new title at Tesla and more. Howdy friends Ryan McCaffrey here for episode 294 of ride the lightning the |
| 0:47.1 | weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for March 21st I got the date right this time |
| 0:52.4 | did not do that last episode. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, because you can tell I make a copy of my notes from last week, leave the bones in place, |
| 1:00.2 | and then fill out all the new weekly information forgot to update the date last week. |
| 1:05.0 | Anyway, episode 294 for March 21st, Daisy the Boxer is just sprawled across the couch, |
| 1:12.0 | joining me as always to my left and I wanted to start the show by saying a big thank you to the good handful of very kind model S plaid Plus reservation holders who reached out to me after I brought |
| 1:27.6 | this up on last week's show as I had requested you guys let me know that yes, your order still shows the original $10,000 lower |
| 1:38.9 | price after Tesla raised the price on the Plaid plus at last week which we talked about also |
| 1:45.8 | Which is even better. I forgot that for those of you that reserved the plaid plus back around battery day when the initial Plaid announcement was made. |
| 1:55.0 | Evidently, I didn't know this, if you placed a plaid order then, it got converted |
| 2:01.1 | to a Plaid Plus order, which I mean they did it makes sense because |
| 2:05.6 | Tesla did say that back at battery day was going to be 500 plus miles so it does |
| 2:11.4 | make sense that that would be what it would convert to and not the |
| 2:14.4 | nearer term regular plaid model. But anyway, if you were reserved back then |
| 2:20.0 | full self-driving was $2,000 less and it seems that that price is being honored as well. |
| 2:27.0 | So good on Tesla, they're honoring the lower FSD price and the lower Plaid plus price. |
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