Episode 431: New Paint Color, New Seats, and the Cybertruck’s New ‘Crab Walk’

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Tesla's Stealth Gray paint color introduced at Giga Shanghai for the Highland Model 3 has made it to the United States, but only on the Model S and X for now. Plus: speaking of Highland, the Model 3 Ludicrous is one of a couple of Teslas that has some seat-related news this week, the Cybertruck is spotted “crab-walking,” 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	the stealth gray paint color introduced at Gigas Shanghai for the Highland Model 3
0:09.0	has made it to the United States, but only on the Model S and X for now. Plus, speaking of Highland, the Model 3
0:16.5	Ludacris is one of a couple of Tesla's that has some seat-related news this week.
0:21.0	The Cyber Truck is spotted crab walking and more. The Greetings friends, welcome to another episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial
0:49.7	Podcast, your weekly dose of all things Tesla. It's episode 431 for November 5th
0:56.4	2023 to my left looking longingly out the window after we've just gotten back
1:00.9	from a nice walk is Daisy the Boxer and behind me
1:04.2	laying on the floor is a very tuckered out Zelina the future service dog. Well as
1:09.2	always there is plenty of because we don't get them very often and stealth gray is now available in the United States in North America
1:25.9	although I guess technically globally since the S&X
1:29.1	every S&X is made here in Fremont and shipped out from here. But stealth gray, now available in North
1:36.1	America, but only on the S&X so far. And as always with something like a paint color, I encourage you to pause the
1:44.8	podcast and head on over to the Tesla design studio on Tesla.com to take a look at
1:50.6	it for yourself because I certainly did this week,
1:53.9	and I know that the render on the design studio
1:57.8	isn't a real picture, it isn't real life.
2:01.0	But I have to say, stealth gray in the render to me looks almost exactly the same
2:08.5	as the midnight silver metallic paint color that it's replacing. So I compared apples to apples and I looked at
2:16.4	the design studio versions of midnight silver metallic. I just pulled up a window
2:21.9	with a model three and then I pulled up
2:23.9	another window right next to it with the model S. I looked at them side by side and
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