Episode 456: A New “Model 2”! Tesla Q1 Earnings Call Highlights and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its quarterly earnings call and we got some major announcements, such as a new low-cost vehicle that’s coming sooner than you think, a big price reduction for the purchase price of FSD, the long-anticipated launch of the new Model 3 Performance, and much 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 held its quarterly earnings call and we got some major announcements, |
| 0:08.0 | such as a new low-cost vehicle that's coming sooner than you think, a big price reduction for the |
| 0:14.6 | purchase price of FSD, the long-awaited launch of the new model three |
| 0:19.4 | performance, and much more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joined by a curled up but not yet |
| 0:45.7 | sleeping. She will be by the end of the show, Daisy the Boxer. Welcome to |
| 0:49.2 | episode 456 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:54.7 | coming to you every single Sunday at 9 a.m. |
| 0:57.4 | Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific. |
| 0:59.2 | This episode is for April 28th, 2024. |
| 1:03.5 | Well, there's so much to get to, |
| 1:05.6 | I'm just gonna jump right in. |
| 1:06.9 | First, remember the Quicksilver Paint News |
| 1:10.6 | that I reported exclusively to you first here last week. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, this week, it became official. |
| 1:18.0 | Quicksilver is now available on, at least for now inventory model wise and it costs an extra $2,000 which is the same price as |
| 1:29.0 | ultra red so since it's model why only at least for the time being I'd have to |
| 1:35.6 | reasonably speculate that these cars are coming out of giga Texas because they don't |
| 1:41.3 | build threes eses or x is there. |
| 1:45.0 | And Texas in theory has a more advanced paint shop than Fremont, if not, so we've been told, |
| 1:52.2 | as advanced as Berlin. |
| 1:54.0 | I suppose it's also possible that these are Berlin-built model Y that are built to US specs |
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