Episode 342: Texas-Made Model Y’s Getting Closer
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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The Model Y “2.0” with the 4680 battery cells and structural battery pack seem to be imminently approaching customer deliveries. Plus: the long wait time for the new Model X is explained, China vies for the next Gigafactory, 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 2.0 with the 4680 battery cells and structural battery pack seems to be imminently approaching customer deliveries. |
| 0:12.1 | Plus the long wait time for the new Model X is explained, |
| 0:16.0 | China vies for the next gigafactory, and more. The What's happening friends? Ryan McCaffrey here with you for Ride the Lightning episode 342 for February 20th, |
| 0:45.8 | 2022. |
| 0:47.8 | And if you'll humor me for a minute, I wanted to start the show on a non-Tessa note, but it is an electric vehicle note. You may very well have heard |
| 0:57.2 | the news this week that the Delorian, my former car, my dream car as a kid, the car made famous of course by the Back to the future film trilogy |
| 1:06.5 | Is being brought back as a new design as an electric vehicle if you haven't seen the teaser yet you can go to |
| 1:15.3 | DeLorian.com that's D-E-L-O-R-E-A-N |
| 1:19.9 | DeLorian.com and I'll tell you you know looking at it if you're a Tesla fan |
| 1:24.4 | there's a couple things that might jump out at you. Number one the new |
| 1:29.7 | font treatment on their Delorian logo has an E that looks a lot like Tesla's three horizontal |
| 1:39.9 | bars E and the front design, the design line on the front of the car, the mustache, if you will, |
| 1:48.3 | that's teased, looks a heck of a lot like the model S's mustache. |
| 1:52.8 | Now I know it's meant to invoke a gull wing appearance, |
| 1:57.0 | but it kind of goes across and then dips down |
| 2:00.1 | in the middle of the car into these, you know, |
| 2:02.3 | two intersecting points. I'm not saying at all at all that |
| 2:06.7 | Tesla is involved because if you think about it it wouldn't as much as a dream come true that would be for me and the ultimate |
| 2:14.2 | colliding of worlds for me but it wouldn't really make sense for Tesla to |
| 2:19.1 | either acquire or otherwise get involved with a very tiny boutique low-volume car manufacturer |
| 2:28.7 | like Delurian, but it is a weird coincidence. In fact, I guess now that I think about it, |
| 2:34.0 | that those two choices were probably made very intentionally |
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