Episode 409: Model 3’s Project Highland Revamp Appears to Be Imminent
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Word from Giga Shanghai is that Tesla's Model 3 Project Highland prototypes are rolling off the line and thus making the revamped sedan’s debut imminent. Plus: a stash of original Tesla Roadsters in Maryland is rotting away…on purpose, the “barn find” Roadsters are going to sell for huge money, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, word from Gigas |
| 0:05.1 | Shanghai is that the Model 3 Project Highland prototypes are rolling off the line and thus |
| 0:10.6 | making the revamp sedan's debut imminent. |
| 0:13.7 | Plus, a stash of original Tesla Roadsters is rotting away in Maryland on purpose. |
| 0:20.3 | The Barnfined Tesla Roadsters are going to sell for huge money and more. Oh, Hello my friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for your weekly Tesla |
| 0:49.0 | unofficial podcast it's Ride the Lightning it's episode 409 for June 4th, 2023. |
| 0:56.7 | As always, there is plenty of Tesla |
| 0:59.6 | to talk about this week. |
| 1:01.0 | And I want to start right off the top with some good news. |
| 1:05.1 | So good news on the tax credit front specifically. |
| 1:08.4 | And that is this. |
| 1:09.4 | The model three, all variants, yes including the base model three are now eligible for the |
| 1:16.5 | 75 hundred dollar federal tax credit now as you are well aware from recent news, the base model three was only eligible for the half |
| 1:26.4 | credit because its battery pack slash battery cells were the LFP cells being sourced from China. |
| 1:34.0 | So the question is, how? |
| 1:36.5 | How did Tesla do this? |
| 1:38.9 | Now, I don't want to look too far past that I want to come back and say this is just awesome because the |
| 1:44.8 | reality now is the base model three which I've long heralded as a really good |
| 1:50.6 | value for the money is now an even better value for the money |
| 1:55.6 | two hundred seventy two mile range car that if you qualify for the full federal tax |
| 2:00.6 | credit you can now get it in the low 30s if you've got a state |
| 2:05.2 | credit of any kind California here the model three is now eligible again it's back |
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