Episode 422: The New Model 3 Has Been Officially Revealed

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

The revamped Model 3, codenamed Project Highland, has been officially revealed in China and there’s a lot to discuss! But the huge news doesn’t end there this week, as the Model S and X got massive price drops, and FSD got a price adjustment too – but for once it went down, not up. Stay tuned, this is one of the biggest weeks of Tesla news in the entire eight years I’ve been doing this podcast!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast,
0:04.0	the revamped Model 3, cod named Project Highland has been officially
0:09.0	revealed in China and Europe, and there is a lot to discuss.
0:14.0	But the huge news does not end there this week as the model S and model X got massive price drops
0:21.4	and FSD got a price adjustment too but for once it went down, not up.
0:27.1	Stay tuned this is one of the biggest weeks of Tesla news in the entire eight years
0:32.1	that I've been doing this podcast. Greetings my friends. I am Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to
0:57.8	episode 422 of Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast.
1:04.0	And as I said at the top, this is for real,
1:07.7	one of the biggest Tesla Newsweeks
1:10.2	that I can remember in the entire eight-plus years that I've been doing this.
1:15.0	But in fact, it goes beyond that.
1:18.0	Both mega topics this week happened on the same day. It was such a wild day. It was, I'm recording this on
1:26.0	Friday afternoon, it's 547 PM. I get to record a little early this week
1:30.4	because our office closed early, so we got to shut things down ahead of the
1:34.8	holiday weekend a little earlier than usual so I wanted to get right to ride the
1:39.2	lightning because I have 25 pages of notes for this week's show, which is probably, I mean that's got to be at least, I don't know, 33% more than I usually do, maybe more, but just absolutely huge topics this week, but I start you with
1:56.6	this appetizer about the cyber truck, but I do promise you it is a tasty appetizer.
2:03.2	So there was one interesting cyber truck tidbit this week of information,
2:07.6	which leads me to some speculation. So the tidbit is that a close-up picture of an open cyber truck front with the front liner removed,
2:19.4	there was actually another picture with the front liner in that finally gave you a really good
2:24.2	clean look at just how big the frunk is and in the picture it looks like it's not
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