Episode 427: My Close Encounter With a Cybertruck + New Model Y Variant

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

I had an unexpected close encounter with a release candidate Cybertruck and I want to tell you the whole story! Plus: The Cybertruck UI leaks, Tesla issues more price cuts on the Model 3 and Model Y, a new-but-not-really-new Model Y variant has been introduced, 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	I had an unexpected close encounter with a release candidate's cyber truck
0:08.0	and I want to tell you the whole story.
0:10.0	Plus, the Cyber Truck UI leaks, Tesla issues more price cuts on the Model 3 and Model
0:16.3	Y. A new but not really new Model Y variant has been introduced and more. Greetings, Ryan McCaffrey here with you for your October 8th
0:46.2	2023 edition of Ride the Lightening the Tesla unofficial podcast which of
0:51.0	course comes to you every Sunday at non-a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific.
0:54.4	This is episode 427 and it is a scorcher here in San Francisco.
1:00.3	We don't often get actual heat. Most, well, many homes in San Francisco don't have air conditioning because we pretty much never need it.
1:08.0	But boy, could I use it today? It is 88 outside.
1:11.0	So this is, I can't remember the last time I was sweating while
1:14.6	recording the podcast but that is neither here nor there the good news is
1:19.6	that there is so much cool stuff to talk about this week and I want to start with
1:24.6	something that happened to me that I think all of you will find interesting and
1:28.9	that is I had an unexpected close encounter with a cyber truck. Now fortunately that doesn't mean a don't take it too literally I didn't get in an accident with a cyber truck
1:40.4	instead it was the good version of a close encounter.
1:45.0	So it was in a Trader Joe's parking lot.
1:48.0	I was pulling in after taking Daisy for a long walk.
1:52.0	I like to get out of San Francisco and just go kind of out into nature and take walks on the weekends when I have a little bit more time because I work from home and I just I like to you know when when it comes
2:04.0	the weekend I like to just kind of get out get out of my usual comfort zone anyway so I
2:08.8	pull into a Trader Joe's to get some stuff and as I do in any parking lot I look to go park in the back of it.
2:16.5	I am happy to just walk across the parking lot and walk to the store from
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