Episode 367: The $7500 EV Tax Credit Is Coming Back…but With a Catch
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The $7500 federal EV tax credit is returning, but not every Tesla will qualify. Meanwhile, a new government paper trail suggests that the next Gigafactory location could be in Canada. Plus: some good news about the long-awaited Tesla Semi, Model Y and Model 3 sales continue to soar, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the $7,500 federal EV tax credit |
| 0:06.7 | is on the verge of returning, but not every Tesla will qualify. |
| 0:12.0 | Meanwhile, a new government paper trail suggests that the next |
| 0:15.8 | gig-factor location could be in Canada. Plus, some good news about the |
| 0:20.5 | long-awaited Tesla semi-truck, |
| 0:22.9 | Model Y and Model 3 sales continue to soar, |
| 0:26.4 | and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:47.0 | happening, friends? |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning, your Tesla Unofficial Podcast episode |
| 0:51.8 | number 367 for August 14. on host Daisy the Boxer who is relaxing on the couch next to me. She is happy she is |
| 1:04.6 | relieved that she finally got a walk today. It's been a bit of a bumpy week here in |
| 1:11.2 | the McCaffrey household. We came back from our trip, not unsurprisingly, with COVID. |
| 1:19.4 | Wasn't me though. My wife tested positive, but with barely any symptoms so she had |
| 1:26.2 | fortunately a pretty easy week physically but mentally a bit a bit a bit tougher because she was locked in her office isolated from us, |
| 1:38.1 | from my daughter and I the whole week. |
| 1:40.1 | So the downside to that was that I was pretty under the weather, though seemingly not with COVID. |
| 1:49.0 | I tested at home every day while my wife was testing positive every day, I kept testing negative, I even went and got a PCR test at an urgent care place to get a more reliable indicator. |
| 2:01.0 | Still negative, and just today, I'm finally... more reliable indicator, still negative. |
| 2:02.5 | And just today, I'm finally pulling out of it. |
| 2:05.9 | You might still hear a little something off in my voice, |
| 2:08.6 | a little nasal congestion, so I do apologize for that. |
| 2:11.8 | But I was feeling miserable enough that I couldn't even get out of the house to walk poor Daisy so today was finally the day |
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