Episode 464: New Model 3 Long Range Now Eligible for $7500 Tax Credit!

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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The new Model 3 Long Range now qualifies for the $7500 point-of-sale federal EV tax credit, the highest-performing employees at Tesla will now be rewarded with stock compensation, Elon Musk begins work on Tesla Master Plan Part 4, 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 new Model 3 long-range now qualifies for the $7,500 point of sale federal EV tax credit.
0:11.0	The highest performing employees at Tesla will now be rewarded with stock compensation,
0:15.9	Elon Musk begins work on Tesla Master Plan Part 4 and more. What's happening, friends, alongside a just walked and thus happily content Daisy the
0:45.6	boxer I'm Ryan McCaffrey this is ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial
0:49.5	podcast the palindramatic episode 464 yes the episode reads the same forwards and
0:56.7	backwards 464 for June 23rd
1:00.3	2,000 and 24 well it's been another busy week of Tesla. I personally had some
1:07.2	Tesla excitement, the good kind, thankfully not a bad kind, but I had a little
1:11.2	excitement this week. I got a somewhat unexpected email that
1:16.0	landed in my inbox and that was my invitation to order a foundation series cyber truck.
1:24.5	Those of you that have been listening for a long time
1:26.8	know that I didn't put my reservation in until quite late.
1:30.9	In fact, I couldn't even quite remember when it was so I had to go back and look up the date in my email
1:38.1	and it was August 29th, 2022 so just a couple months shy of two years ago, definitely towards the later end of the
1:49.0	reservation list, and if you're a tracker of such things, tracking which reservation numbers have been invited to configure Foundation series cybertrucks, mine starts with 1117. So that means that Tesla must have plowed through all of the
2:08.9	2021 reservations, invited all of those folks folks and as we can tell from mine now from the
2:16.1	end of August almost all of the 2022s pretty quickly here in recent weeks I mean if you
2:22.4	recall it seemed like it took
2:24.7	forever just to get past the day one reservations. Now that does make sense when you
2:30.8	consider that production was at its slowest in the beginning, the
2:34.8	fewest number of trucks per week, and there was a huge volume of day one reservations.
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