Episode 440: Analyzing Tesla’s Q4 Production and Delivery Numbers

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Tesla posted its Q4 production and delivery numbers – and thus its overall 2023 figures – and I’ve got reactions and analysis to the data. Plus: New paint colors for the Model Y, our first piece of information on Autopilot Hardware 5, 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	Tesla posted its Q4 production and delivery numbers,
0:08.0	and thus its overall 2023 figures,
0:11.0	and I've got reactions and analysis to the data.
0:13.8	Plus, new paint colors for the model Y,
0:17.0	our first piece of information on autopilot hardware five
0:20.7	and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey joining you here for the 440th
0:46.1	episode of your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast that I call Ride the Lightning
0:50.8	this one for January 7th, 2024. Happy New Year for real this time.
0:58.1	This is the first episode that I'm recording in 2024. I did last week's as 2023 still had a couple of days left in it.
1:06.2	I would like to start the 10th yes 10th calendar year of Ride the Lightning, though the show won't actually turn 9 until the beginning of August.
1:18.0	But on a very serious and somber note this week, I want to dedicate this week's episode to loyal, long-time
1:27.0	listener and very generous Patreon backer, Ken Epstein. Ken's wife Claudia let me know this week that Ken passed away over the holidays.
1:37.0	Ken was a regular, an absolute staple on the Patreon Zoom hangout calls every month and I even had the
1:46.2	great pleasure of meeting Ken in person at the Tesla takeover event that
1:51.4	happened in San Luis Obispo, California this past summer.
1:56.4	And Ken clearly loved talking about Tesla and what I remember from him on those Zoom calls.
2:02.2	He loved talking about Solar as well. That was a big passion of his.
2:06.2	And he was just one of those people who you just got a sense right away that this is a delightful human being. He was also a professional
2:15.7	photographer and videographer and when he had introduced himself to me in
2:20.3	person last summer he gave me his business card which I still have right here and I
2:25.1	knew he lived in Phoenix so I told him that boy Ken I would love to have you take
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