Episode 362: Tesla Production Hangs Tough During Bumpy Q2
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Tesla’s production and delivery numbers for Q2 are in, and a surge in June helped stabilize a tough quarter. Plus: Giga Texas is already expanding, a modified Plaid Model S zooms past 200mph, Elon Musk wonders aloud about what Tesla should build next, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Tesla's production and delivery numbers for Q2 are in, |
| 0:07.5 | and a surge in June helped stabilize a tough quarter. |
| 0:11.4 | Plus, Gigatexis is already expanding, a modified Plaid Model S zooms past 200 |
| 0:18.5 | miles per hour. Elon Musk wonders aloud about what Tesla should build next and more. What's happening, |
| 0:45.0 | happening friends? |
| 0:46.0 | The Ride The Lightning Your Weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast for July 10th, 2022. |
| 0:51.0 | It's episode 362. I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left the snoozing |
| 0:55.8 | Daisy the boxer and once again another busy week of Tesla news. We've got the |
| 1:01.1 | quarterly production and delivery numbers I'll get to that in a moment. |
| 1:04.6 | But first a quick kind of mini news item. It's more, I mean it is a utility, but for a lot of us like me, |
| 1:11.0 | it was just for fun. If you're curious what Tesla would value |
| 1:15.9 | your car at on a trade-in they've put that website back up it was there for a while |
| 1:21.6 | then they took it down because the wait times for the cars were so long |
| 1:25.2 | that you'd put in a number or you'd get a number and it just wouldn't be accurate anymore by the time |
| 1:30.9 | your car was actually ready to be delivered and thus your old one was ready to be traded in. |
| 1:35.0 | So you can now get an instant quote from Tesla on what they would value your car at on a trade in. |
| 1:42.0 | You can go to Tesla.com slash trade-in so of course I put |
| 1:46.3 | mine in I was curious I've told you all I paid 78 because well I got the F.S I got the $3,000 FSD add on later but I think yeah I think so I think I paid |
| 1:58.4 | 77 at purchase now I was lucky enough I got $10,000 back to the $7,500 federal tax |
| 2:07.6 | credit and then the $2,500 California cash rebate. So I guess you know I netted out at about |
| 2:15.1 | $70,000 so okay it's been four years and it's been 43,000 miles we know how crazy the used car market is, particularly used |
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