Episode 398: Tesla Tops USA Luxury Car Sales Again
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Tesla’s 2023 is off to a huge start as the company ranks #1 in US luxury car sales for January. Plus: the first V4 Supercharger is now online, Tesla’s latest Autopilot safety report is in, a longtime Tesla analyst is bearish on the Cybertruck’s production ceiling, 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 | Tesla's 2023 is off to a huge start as the company ranks number one in US |
| 0:09.4 | luxury car sales for January. Plus, the first V4 supercharger is now online. |
| 0:16.2 | Tesla's latest autopilot safety report is in. A long time Tesla analyst is |
| 0:21.5 | bearish on the cyber trucks production ceiling and more. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:49.3 | happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you alongside Daisy the Boxer to my left, chilling, looking out the window, and behind me to my right lying on the dogbed Zilina the future service dog. |
| 0:55.4 | Both calm and quiet for now. |
| 0:58.2 | That was not the case when I recorded this week's lightning round bonus episode for |
| 1:02.4 | Patreon. My patrons know what I'm talking about on that. |
| 1:06.4 | Anyway, it is episode 398 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast, this one for March 19th, |
| 1:15.6 | 2023. And I will start here with a couple of quick hits. First up, Model S and |
| 1:22.3 | Expires. I meant to say this one last week, totally slipped my mind. |
| 1:25.0 | Model S and X buyers who currently have orders placed for a multi-coat red S or X, |
| 1:32.0 | are getting upgraded for free to Ultra Red, which I think is pretty cool. |
| 1:38.0 | I mean, I can't really imagine anyone's going to be too upset about that, even though it is technically a different color. |
| 1:45.0 | And color is subjective, paint color on a car, and you won't necessarily like Ultra Red better. |
| 1:52.0 | But in theory, it is a better finish. It is a better quality paint |
| 1:57.1 | job. It is still multi-coat. We'll have to see, I guess, when people start taking deliveries I mean some deliveries have already |
| 2:04.6 | started but those of you who may be maybe waiting in fact if any of you out there are in this |
| 2:10.6 | boat who just had an order in for a red SRX and got switched |
| 2:15.0 | over to ultra red. I would love it if you would email me Tesla Podcast at gmail |
| 2:20.3 | dot com or feel free to call in when you get your car because I would love to hear |
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