Episode 467: First Model Y Refresh Test Vehicle Spotted?

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

Elon, Leisure, Teslaroadster, Ev, Teslamodels, Roadster, Model3, Teslamodel3, Teslamodeliii, Tesla, Automotive, Bev, Gigafactory, Business News, Cars, Teslamotors, Modely, Cybertruck, Modelx, Electric, Elonmusk, Models, News, Electriccars, Teslamodelx, Semi

4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The first heavily camouflaged Model Y refresh test mule has seemingly been spotted, the $35,000 Model 3 is finally real and it is SPECTACULAR, an historically significant unreleased original Tesla Roadster goes up for auction, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the first heavily
0:05.3	camouflaged Model Y refresh test mule has seemingly been spotted.
0:10.8	The $35,000 model 3 is finally real and it is spectacular.
0:15.0	And historically significant unreleased original Tesla Roadster goes up for auction and more. What's happening, friends? Hello from Southern California Ryan McCaffrey of course
0:47.2	joining you as I do every single week for Ride the Lightning. It is your
0:50.5	weekly Tesla unofficial podcast.
0:53.0	This is episode 467 publishing on July 14, 2024.
0:59.0	I say hello from my hotel room here in Southern California.
1:02.3	I'm on a business trip this week and I certainly
1:04.8	hope I am not bothering my fellow hotel guests while I record this because you know the walls
1:10.3	tend to be thin in your basic hotels like the one I'm staying in and I
1:15.4	certainly I'm trying to be respectful here that's why I'm recording a little
1:19.4	earlier than even early and I am recording on Thursday night this week because of a work
1:26.0	event tomorrow, my usual recording day of Friday, my usual recording evening of
1:30.3	Friday night, I have some work plans and so here I am Thursday at 6 p.m. on the
1:38.1	dot here getting started so hopefully nobody's sleeping next door at this point.
1:43.4	So, as always, if anything big happens on Friday
1:47.8	that I happen to miss because I recorded early this week,
1:50.7	I will cover it on next week's podcast.
1:54.0	Thankfully, the big news seems to have gone off on Thursday afternoon this week,
1:59.0	just about an hour ago from when I sat down to do this and I will talk about that in just a few minutes.
2:06.0	But first, just a couple more reminders on this because the event is coming right up.
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