Episode 392: Model Y Climbs Best-Selling Cars List + New Beta Cybertruck Sighting
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Model Y is rapidly rising up the rankings of the world’s best-selling cars, the latest Cybertruck beta version shows off a new styling feature, a Giga Mexico announcement seems more certain and imminent than ever, Tesla is the best brand at stealing customers – and keeping them for a long time, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.8 | Model Y is rapidly rising up the ranks of the world's best-selling cars. |
| 0:08.4 | A gigam Mexico announcement seems more Oh, Greetings friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 392 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial |
| 0:45.7 | Podcast, this one for February 5th, 2023, and there is plenty to get to. |
| 0:51.4 | I want to start with some fun and good news. |
| 0:53.7 | First, the marking of a significant anniversary as Tesla themselves noting on their |
| 0:59.1 | Twitter account this week, Tesla delivered their first ever car Roadster Number One. 15 years ago this |
| 1:06.8 | week Elon Musk taking delivery of that car. The Tesla blog from February 6th, 2008, says the day started with great anticipation. |
| 1:18.4 | We all knew the car was planning to arrive on Friday at about 1 PM. |
| 1:22.2 | We knew that select Media would be in |
| 1:23.7 | attendance to witness the event. We knew there'd be a party at the end of the day. |
| 1:26.9 | Many of us also knew that P1, which is production number one, was stuck in |
| 1:31.8 | customs in Los Angeles and there were no guarantees that it |
| 1:34.7 | would be released on time. A few well-placed phone calls improved the odds, so |
| 1:39.8 | when the email arrived that announced the arrival of P1 nearly all Tesla employees gathered |
| 1:44.8 | behind the shop to watch the delivery truck arrive. |
| 1:48.5 | When the rear door of the trailer opened and P1 was inside, there was a collective sigh of relief from the team and we broke into applause very very cool stuff right there |
| 1:59.0 | Now from the oldest Tesla to the newest one. |
| 2:03.6 | One of the beta cyber trucks mentioned on the earnings call last week. |
| 2:07.9 | So the latest production or latest pre-production version |
| 2:11.8 | or we're inching closer to actual production, was spotted in Palo Alto. |
| 2:16.8 | A photo of the rear right-quarter angle was posted on the internet this week along with a video of following it right behind |
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