Episode 436: Cybertruck Customer Configurations Begin…Sort Of

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Cybertruck reservation holders have begun getting invitations to purchase their trucks…but there’s a bit of a catch. Plus: Tesla clarifies the federal tax credit expectation for 2024 Model 3’s, the Cybertruck might be able to swim a little bit after all, 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	Cyber Truck Reservation holders have begun getting invitations to purchase their trucks,
0:09.0	but there's a bit of a catch.
0:11.0	Plus, Tesla clarifies the federal tax credit expectation for 2024 model 3s,
0:17.0	the Cyber Truck might be able to swim a little bit after all and more. What's happening, happening, I'm Ryan McCaffrey,
0:33.0	joining you
0:34.0	for the December 10th episode of Ride the
0:46.4	Lightening, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast. It is episode 436. I am very stoked to be with you here. I was in LA on business earlier this week
0:56.9	keeping tabs on everything in the Tesla world while I was down there and I am back back home in San Francisco ready to record what I hope
1:06.4	is going to be a very good podcast. There is definitely a lot of fun stuff to talk about.
1:10.7	I do want to start with a correction, a mistake of mine from last week.
1:15.1	So the Cyber Truck does in fact ship with a rearview mirror.
1:21.2	It's not a rearview mirror camera like the prototype Cyber Truck had, but a regular rear view
1:28.2	mirror will be there. The production intent prototypes that Marquez Brownley, Top Gear, and Haggerty drove that I talked a lot about last week simply did not have it installed.
1:41.8	So those folks had to use the center screen and the rearview mirror
1:46.7	display on there, but the production trucks that you will get do have a rearview mirror on them.
1:53.8	So I do want to apologize for that little bit of a misunderstanding
1:57.5	and what turned into a mistake on my part.
2:00.9	And in the end, Tesla still saves a bit of money by using what I presume
2:06.8	will probably be the exact same rearview mirror that's on all four other production Tesla's rather than having to use a
2:16.2	separate more expensive rearview mirror camera with that camera functionality in it.
2:24.0	Next up in the appetizer row here of the podcast before I really get going.
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