Episode 470: New Model Y Spotted – Without Its Cover!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Spy pictures of what is undoubtedly the new Model Y pop up online and reveal a slick new bit of styling. Plus: one California city switched its entire police fleet over to Teslas, Elon Musk gives an update on when Cybertruck owners might finally get FSD, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, spy pictures of what is undoubtedly the new model Y pop up online and reveal a slick new bit of styling. |
| 0:12.0 | Plus, one California city switched its entire police fleet over to |
| 0:16.8 | Tesla's. Elon Musk gives an update on when cyber truck owners might finally get FSD and more. What's happening, friends? Welcome to Ride the Lightning. It's your weekly Tesla |
| 0:46.9 | unofficial podcast. This one for August 4th, 2024, it's episode 470. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left, Daisy the Boxer, |
| 0:56.0 | and this week as always, there is so much fun stuff to talk about. |
| 1:00.0 | One of those fun things is last weekend's X takeover in San Luis Obispo, including the Ride the |
| 1:06.8 | Lightning listener meet-up. |
| 1:08.3 | So I'll tell you all about that towards the end of the show. |
| 1:11.6 | There is so much other current news to get to that I want to start there. |
| 1:15.6 | But first I do want to take a quick moment just to acknowledge a couple of really fun |
| 1:21.1 | Tesla anniversaries in my life. First, today as I record this Friday |
| 1:27.7 | August 2nd, this is the nine-year anniversary of the first episode of this podcast. Nine years ago today as I'm recording |
| 1:37.9 | I released episode one, which I would have to imagine is probably pretty terrible now if I were to go back and listen to it. |
| 1:46.9 | At least, honestly, I hope it would seem bad now if I went back and listen to it because if I haven't gotten better after doing |
| 1:56.0 | this thing for nine years every single Sunday I think that's a pretty terrible look for me |
| 2:02.0 | but nine years ago, so anyway, |
| 2:05.3 | I want to say a huge thanks to all of you |
| 2:07.7 | who take the time out of your week |
| 2:09.2 | to listen to this podcast, |
| 2:11.0 | whether you've listened the entire nine years or if this is your first |
| 2:14.9 | episode or more likely somewhere in between and then the other fun Tesla |
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