Episode 375: Tesla Makes Big Change to Model 3 and Y
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The Model 3 and Model Y are changing in appearance (but you’ll never guess how), Tesla announces another record-breaking quarter of production and deliveries, the Tesla Semi finally gets a launch date, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the Model 3 and Model Y are changing in appearance, but you'll never guess how. |
| 0:08.8 | Plus, Tesla announces another record-breaking quarter of production and deliveries, |
| 0:13.5 | the Tesla Semi finally gets a launch date and more. Oh, Greetings friends Ryan McCaffray here with you for a mini milestone episode 375. It's kind of a nice little in between round number of |
| 0:45.2 | ride the lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for October 9th |
| 0:49.5 | 2022 Daisy the boxer is actually currently to my right and said it to my left. |
| 0:55.4 | She's down on her dog bed. Just, what are you doing? Cleaning some feet. |
| 0:58.9 | All right, fair enough. Let's get started. There is a lot to talk about. Actually real quick just a quick follow-up on |
| 1:06.7 | Optimus the Tesla bot from last week. For this week's Patreon poll which again anybody can vote and you don't have to be a |
| 1:14.7 | Patreon backer just go to patreon.com slash Tesla podcast I usually post those on |
| 1:21.3 | trying to do Tuesdays Tuesday nights for the Patreon poll sometimes |
| 1:25.0 | it's Wednesday anyway my question this week on the poll was again a follow-up I |
| 1:30.9 | said all right are you more excited about Optimus |
| 1:35.1 | after the reveal, less excited, or the same? And the results with 176 votes, |
| 1:41.6 | 56% of you saying, I feel the same as I did before the reveal. |
| 1:47.0 | 34%, so one in three people who voted, saying they are more excited, |
| 1:52.0 | and really just one in 10 11% saying they are less |
| 1:56.4 | excited about the optimist so we'll see what happens with the Tesla bot as time |
| 2:02.2 | goes on. |
| 2:03.0 | Also, I hope all of you ludicrous tier backers and hire on the aforementioned Patreon |
| 2:10.0 | enjoyed this week's lightning round mini episode, |
| 2:13.3 | which was all about my wife's latest thinking, |
| 2:16.8 | her latest plans for her next car. |
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