Episode 450: Tesla Warned You Not to Try and Flip Your Cybertruck
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Would-be Cybertruck resellers are finding out exactly how serious Tesla is about their no-resale-for-a-year policy. Plus: long-time Tesla shareholders have a chance to get a Cybertruck early, FSD Beta is finally gearing up to come to other countries, 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 | would-be resellers are finding out exactly how serious Tesla is about their no resale |
| 0:10.3 | for a year policy on the cyber truck. |
| 0:13.0 | Plus, long-time Tesla shareholders have a chance to get a cyber truck early. |
| 0:18.0 | FSD beta is finally gearing up to come to other countries and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you alongside a curled up boxer ball over here. |
| 0:48.8 | Daisy the boxer. Welcome to episode 450 of Ride the Lightning Your Weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast, this one for March 17th, |
| 0:58.0 | 2024. A nice little mini milestone this week, episode which means every week since August of 2015 |
| 1:07.9 | this podcast has been coming your way you can go back and count them up if you like. I am so grateful to all of you |
| 1:14.6 | for taking the time to listen to this podcast. |
| 1:17.2 | Whether you've been with me for the entire run of 450 episodes, |
| 1:22.4 | a lot of you joined right at episode 200 when I got Elon Musk on the |
| 1:26.6 | podcast for a one hour interview or anytime in between, you know, anytime in between if you've been jumping in and listening to the |
| 1:34.2 | podcast, I do sincerely appreciate it. |
| 1:37.3 | I confess I am a bit exhausted today. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm trying to just bring up as much energy, just generate as much energy as I can. |
| 1:46.4 | I was on a cross-country business trip this week, which was fine in and of itself, but adjusting to the time zone has been a little annoying in each way in fact and so I'm |
| 1:58.0 | running on a little a little bit of low sleep but that doesn't matter because the Tesla news is what we're here to talk |
| 2:04.6 | about and there is plenty of that as always. So first up an appetizer for you |
| 2:11.2 | this week is that yet another demand lever Tesla is pulling here as |
| 2:16.2 | Q1 winds down. Many of you may have received this in your email just as I did. The email from Tesla reads, |
| 2:25.6 | pick a color, any color. As a Tesla owner, you are eligible for our latest loyalty |
| 2:31.7 | incentives when you take delivery of a qualifying Tesla |
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