Episode 309: Tesla Breaks its Quarterly Delivery Record...Again
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Tesla's Q2 production and delivery numbers are in, and the news is once again good. Plus: a Plaid Model S goes racing at Pikes Peak and brings home a trophy, Tesla is formally opening up its Superchargers in a couple of European countries, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla's Q2 production and delivery numbers are in and the news is once again good |
| 0:08.8 | plus a plaid model es goes racing up p Pike's Peak and brings home a trophy. |
| 0:14.3 | Tesla is formally opening up its superchargers in a couple of European countries and more. The What's happening friends alongside Daisy the Boxer? I'm Ryan McCaffrey. This is |
| 0:43.8 | Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for July 4th, 2021. |
| 0:49.1 | Happy 4th of July to my American listeners. This is episode 309 and it is a good one because |
| 0:55.8 | we got some good news from Tesla. There is plenty to talk about this week as usual and |
| 1:01.7 | I'll start right there the Q2 production and |
| 1:05.1 | delivery numbers are in after the quarter ended earlier this week of course after |
| 1:09.2 | the 30th so after Wednesday and those numbers are, yes, another record quarter for Tesla. |
| 1:17.2 | In their press release they kept it short and sweet saying quote, in the second quarter |
| 1:22.2 | we produced and delivered over 200,000 vehicles. |
| 1:26.4 | Our teams have done an outstanding job navigating through global supply chain and logistics challenges." |
| 1:33.0 | End quote. |
| 1:34.0 | That's it. |
| 1:35.0 | And then they gave their numbers, and those numbers are as follows. |
| 1:38.0 | 201,250 cars delivered, |
| 1:42.0 | 206,400. 250 cars delivered, 2006, 321 produced. |
| 1:46.7 | That is the first time Tesla has ever exceeded 200,000 |
| 1:50.3 | on either of those numbers in a single quarter. |
| 1:54.0 | Of those 201,250 delivered, |
| 1:58.0 | 199, 360 of them, or put another way, exactly 99% were model 3's and model Y's. 1% of them were model |
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