Episode 299: All Hail the Model Y, the New King of Teslas
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
The Model Y overtakes the Model 3 to become Tesla's top seller, the full-size version of the new Tesla Roadster still doesn't have a firm release window, but a smaller version of it does. Plus: good news for future Model 3 buyers, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast the model Y overtakes the model three to become Tesla's top seller |
| 0:08.0 | The full-sized version of the new Tesla Roadster still doesn't have a firm release window, but a smaller version of it does. |
| 0:15.6 | Plus, good news for future Tesla Model 3 buyers and more. The What's happening, happening, |
| 0:33.0 | what's happening, |
| 0:34.0 | what's happening? |
| 0:40.0 | What's happening, |
| 0:41.0 | Ryan McCaffrey alongside Daisy the Boxer with you for episode |
| 0:44.0 | 299 of Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast this one for April 25th, |
| 0:50.8 | 2021 there is as usual a ton of interesting Tesla news to get to. |
| 0:56.2 | A quick programming note up front, my monthly Google Hangout for the maximum plaid-tier |
| 1:02.3 | Patreon backers that any new or upgraded |
| 1:06.3 | backer, anyone that joins the Patreon for the first time or upgrades their pledge |
| 1:11.1 | gets a one-time invite to as well. |
| 1:14.0 | That monthly Google Hangout is going to now be on Sunday, May 9th. |
| 1:18.8 | I would normally do it the first Sunday of the month, which is next Sunday, but I am going to be traveling back from |
| 1:25.1 | Arizona that weekend so I'm just gonna kick that back one more week for those of |
| 1:30.9 | you who are looking forward to that emails and calendar invites will go out for that pretty soon so not too far away and I'll get that on your calendars looking forward to those those have been a really really good time each and every |
| 1:44.2 | month hanging out with a bunch of you. Okay let's get to the Tesla news first up this |
| 1:49.2 | week the Model Y is now out selling the model three at least in California which is |
| 1:55.8 | certainly Tesla's biggest individual state market here within the United |
| 2:01.0 | States I guess maybe you'd call that a micro market I'm not sure but anyway |
| 2:04.8 | The story comes via Tesla Rotti who writes the model why was sold 12,227 times in Q1 of 2021 while registrations in California for the model 3 |
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