Episode 466: Tesla’s Q2 Production and Delivery Numbers Are In

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Tesla posts its vehicle production and delivery numbers for the just-completed second quarter, and the news is very good. Plus: Tesla gives an update on Cybertruck’s Foundation Series program…sort of, Quicksilver paint is now available on Model 3’s built at Giga Shanghai, and more! Special guest cohost: Larry Hryb

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast,
0:04.0	Tesla posts its vehicle production and delivery numbers for the just completed second quarter
0:09.0	and the news is very good.
0:11.0	Plus, Tesla gives an update on Cyber Truck's Foundation series program, sort of.
0:17.0	Quick silver paint is now available on Model 3's built at Gigas Shanghai and more. Welcome friends to Ride the Lightning. It is your weekly Tesla
0:46.2	podcast coming at you here for July 7th, 2024. It's 4th of July weekend so
0:51.2	happy 4th to my American listeners.
0:53.7	To everybody else, happy weekend.
0:55.9	Hope you're having a good one.
0:57.2	As you listen to this, I of course am Ryan McCaffrey,
1:00.1	but I'm not alone this week.
1:02.2	Usually 99% of the time I am.
1:05.0	But this week a friend of mine, an old friend who I haven't caught up with in far too long
1:10.0	and what better way to do it than to do it through our mutual shared love of electric cars.
1:16.0	I would like you to welcome some of you if you follow me in my day job at I.
1:20.0	N in the video game space you'll know this gentleman and if not I hope you'll feel like you got to know him a little by the end of the podcast
1:26.1	his name is Larry Herb you might know him as Xbox's Major Nelson though that is a post which he stepped down from in the not too recent past.
1:36.3	Larry, hello my friend.
1:38.0	Oh, Ryan, it's so good to hear your voice and first of all, thank you for having me on the show it's a it's a delight to be here you and I have teased each other like we got to do we did we're finally doing it so thank you for having me on
1:49.6	oh I couldn't be couldn't be more pleased that you're here.
1:52.6	So Larry of course hails from the Seattle area
1:55.8	as all the Microsoft HQ folks do.
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