Episode 408: Model Y Gets V4 Autopilot Hardware
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Autopilot Hardware 4 is starting to roll out on the Model Y, Tesla and Ford forge a huge charging alliance, Elon Musk says the next Gigafactory announcement is coming this year, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Auto Pilot Hardware 4 is starting to roll out on the model Y. |
| 0:08.4 | Tesla and Ford forge a huge charging alliance. |
| 0:12.4 | Elon Musk says the next Gigafactory announcement is coming this year and more. Oh, Greetings friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 408 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:41.9 | the Tesla unofficial podcast for May 28th, 2023. |
| 0:47.0 | Starting this week's podcast with a quick correction, I have to mash my own palm of my hand into my into my forehead repeatedly |
| 0:56.3 | I had my decimal point in the wrong place on last week's podcast the The Cyber Truck at 250,000 units per year would represent in fact 1.25% |
| 1:10.8 | of 20 million cars per year when Tesla reaches that production goal. |
| 1:15.4 | My decimal point was very much in the wrong place on that. |
| 1:19.5 | See, this is why I was a journalism major in college and not a math major. Thank you to listener |
| 1:25.2 | Matt for correcting me on that one. Hey speaking of math as eagle-eyed Tesla tipster |
| 1:31.7 | Sawyer Merit noted this week, |
| 1:33.7 | Tesla has begun discounting inventory model 3s |
| 1:38.8 | and only model 3s. |
| 1:41.6 | As Sawyer put it on Twitter, quote, |
| 1:43.5 | Tesla is offering up to $1,350 discounts off of new Model 3 inventory in the US. |
| 1:50.5 | No discounts for Model Y, S, or X. Well, hmm, I wonder why Tesla would discount model |
| 2:00.0 | 3s, but none of the other Tesla's. Why would that possibly be? You of course |
| 2:06.3 | know the answer as I lay the sarcasm on thick there. Project Highland is incoming, seemingly, I mean this this to me is a telltale sign that |
| 2:16.4 | change is imminent we've seen Tesla do this before in fact now we're counting |
| 2:22.3 | down the days at this point because here I'm recording on |
| 2:24.8 | May 26 the show's coming out on May 28th and now it's just a matter of probably |
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