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🗓️ 16 July 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Tesla informs potential Model 3 buyers of a key upcoming change to the $7500 federal tax credit, Giga Mexico is about ready to start construction, Tesla opens its second V4 Supercharger, and more!
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0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
0:04.4 | Tesla informs potential model three buyers of a key upcoming change to the $7,500 federal tax credit. |
0:11.6 | Gigam Mexico is about ready to start construction. |
0:15.1 | Tesla opens its second V4 supercharger and more. The What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 415 of Ride the Lightning. |
0:45.4 | It's your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for July 16th, 2023 though I am recording this week's episode a little earlier than usual |
0:55.2 | it is Thursday evening rather than the Friday night that I usually record I've got a little |
1:00.8 | trip as I mentioned at the end of last week's show I'm off to St. Louis, |
1:04.4 | for a little baseball excursion with my baseball loving uncles that we all live scattered around the country, |
1:10.0 | so I'm looking forward to that. So as always by virtue of me recording a little earlier than usual, |
1:16.0 | if anything big breaks or I guess it would be better to say if anything big broke on Friday, I will cover it in plenty of detail on next week's podcast. |
1:27.8 | Now speaking of that, next week is the big quarterly earnings call episode. It's going to be fun and in |
1:35.3 | anticipation of that I made it the subject of this week's Patreon poll which you can |
1:40.8 | vote on every week at my Patreon page found at patreon.com |
1:46.4 | slash Tesla podcast you do not have to be backing me on patreon to vote of the |
1:51.7 | poll it is open to the public. So the question this week was simply, |
1:55.3 | what are you most hoping to hear about on next week's earnings call? |
2:00.5 | 58% of the votes, and there were over 200 of them again this week so thank you all |
2:04.9 | for voting. 58% of you voted for a cyber truck production status update with |
2:11.4 | 22% of you saying you wanted to see a Generation 3 |
2:15.8 | vehicle timeline update 14% of you voted for something on FSD version 12 |
2:22.4 | 3% looking to hear for something on FSD version 12. |
2:23.2 | 3% looking to hear about the Giga Mexico groundbreaking, |
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