Episode 380: New Model Y Variant Becoming Official
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
It looks like the first Model Y with 4680 battery cells is about to go national. Plus: your Tesla is about to get a new productivity app, Tesla sets its sights on making its charging port the national standard, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, it looks like the first model |
| 0:05.2 | Y with 4680 battery cells is about to go national. Plus, your Tesla is about to get a new productivity app. |
| 0:13.0 | Tesla sets its sights on making its charging port the national standard and more. Oh, What's happening, what's happening, |
| 0:35.0 | friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode |
| 0:41.0 | 380 of Ride the Lightning the Tesla unofficial |
| 0:44.6 | podcast for November 13th 2022 to my left curled up in a boxer ball Daisy the |
| 0:50.2 | boxer and to my right just a little out of my purview here under my wife |
| 0:54.9 | supervision is Zelina the Yellow Lab aka Zelina the future service dog yes I will |
| 1:02.4 | tell you a little bit more about that later on in the |
| 1:04.4 | podcast towards the end after all the Tesla stuff, but that was what my |
| 1:08.8 | Patreon Bonus mini episode, I call it the lightning round each week. That's what the |
| 1:14.2 | episode was about this week was about our new puppy and canine companions, the |
| 1:19.6 | organization that were volunteering with to raise her. |
| 1:23.0 | So if you're interested in hearing that full spiel, |
| 1:25.5 | plus the other 21 weekly lightning round episodes |
| 1:29.5 | that are now in the back catalog, |
| 1:31.0 | you can support me on Patreon at patreon. in the $10 per month |
| 1:33.0 | on Patreon at Patreon.com slash Tesla Podcast |
| 1:37.0 | and it's the ludicrous tier, the $10 per month tier or higher |
| 1:40.8 | that gets you access to all of those weekly bonus mini episodes along with early |
| 1:45.9 | access to each week's regular episode. |
| 1:49.4 | Hey real quick, a little thing that I forgot to mention on last week's episode when I was talking |
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