Episode 414: Tesla’s Q2 Production and Delivery Numbers Surprise and Delight
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Tesla has announced its production and delivery numbers for the just-completed Q2, and the tallies are pleasantly surprising. Plus: a small but significant change to the Design Studio for Model 3 and Model Y buyers, a rumored construction-completion date for Giga Mexico, 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 | Tesla has announced its production and delivery numbers for the just completed |
| 0:08.4 | quarter number two and the tallies are pleasantly surprising. |
| 0:12.0 | Plus, a small but significant change to the design studio for Model 3 and Model Y buyers, |
| 0:18.0 | a rumored construction completion date for Gigamexico and more. What's happening, friends? Welcome to Ride the Lightning. It is your weekly Tesla |
| 0:47.4 | Unofficial podcast, this episode publishing July 9th, 2023. |
| 0:53.6 | It is a palindrome this week, episode 414. |
| 0:56.9 | It reads the same front or back. |
| 0:58.9 | I don't know, I just always like palindromes, they amuse me. |
| 1:02.0 | Anyway, some warm up news for you here. |
| 1:04.6 | First up, Tesla has updated its referral program |
| 1:08.6 | again in the United States. |
| 1:11.0 | This comes via Tesla Tipster Sawyer Merritt who noticed it and wrote |
| 1:14.8 | new model Y and model three buyers who use a referral code now get $500 off and |
| 1:21.7 | three free months of FSD. Before, buyers only got 1,500 loot box credits worth |
| 1:29.7 | about $125.00. Refers of a new three or why now get 10,000 credits worth approximately $1,000, |
| 1:38.0 | which is five times more than before. |
| 1:42.0 | Well, remember how I said the end of quarter perk from last month, |
| 1:47.0 | June, of course, which was at that time three free months |
| 1:51.1 | of supercharging? |
| 1:52.4 | I said it wasn't all that great. |
| 1:54.2 | Well, I guess Tesla must have heard me loud and clear |
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