On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast, Tesla crushes expectations for both the fourth quarter of 2021 and the entire year, announcing some truly impressive year over year growth.

Plus, Tesla is number one in not one but two European countries for all of 2021.

The model S plan gets a software update to increase its top speed and more. Oh, What's happening,

happening friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey and I am back alongside my four-legged canine co-host, Daisy the Boxer.

This is Ride the lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial

podcast for January 9th 2022 it's good to be home back here in San Francisco I am very

grateful to have made it through my travels

without Amacon getting me or my family as well. I hope all of you are out there

staying healthy too while hopefully still enjoying some time with your loved ones

over the now completed holiday season. Hey before I get started I just wanted to

send out a quick thank you to listener and Patreon backer Ed Sullivan for helping me out with a little post-processing magic that made last week show, which as you may remember I recorded in Arizona, different microphone, forgot my pop filter, he helped

me make it sound a little bit better for all of you.

So Ed, I appreciate it.

Thank you very, very much for that. All right let's get started as

usual there is plenty to talk about in the world of Tesla and we start with some

excellent news Tesla absolutely stomping Wall Street's expectations and its own records

for both a quarter and for an entire year announcing their production and delivery numbers for Q4 and thus all of 2021.

So 2021 just huge for Tesla both relative to its own history and Q4 in particular once again setting a new record for quarterly production and deliveries for this company whose cars we all love and

gather here in friendship every week to discuss. Tesla posted the news with a

very short and sweet message on its investor relations webpage saying

simply this in the fourth quarter we achieved production of more than

three hundred and five thousand vehicles and deliveries of over 308,000 vehicles.

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