Episode 471: US Model 3’s Get Quicksilver + Cybertruck Goes International
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Tesla’s beautiful Quicksilver paint is now available on the Model 3 in North America, Tesla experiments with a new software bundle option on Model S and X, faster Supercharging has arrived for the Cybertruck, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.2 | Tesla's beautiful quicksilver paint is now available on the model three in North America. |
| 0:09.7 | Plus, Tesla experiments with a new software bundle option on Model S and Model X. |
| 0:15.0 | Faster supercharging has arrived for the cyber truck and more. The What's happening, |
| 0:47.8 | happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey here alongside Daisy the boxer to my left and mine of the future service dog puppy to my right |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning. It is your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. This is episode 471 for August 11th, 2024. |
| 0:58.9 | Well, how about some good news to kick things off as I very much expected after Gigas Shanghai began |
| 1:07.1 | offering the new model three in the new quicksilver paint or at least relatively |
| 1:12.0 | new debuted at gig of, a couple years ago now, but still |
| 1:15.6 | one of the newer paint colors in the Tesla Arsenal. The Fremont factory has now followed suit, |
| 1:21.6 | and thus Quicksilver is now available on any trim of the |
| 1:26.0 | model three here in North America. It costs $2,000 which is the same price as Ultra Red is on the Three Fresh. |
| 1:36.8 | So this means that the old, the aging Fremont factory, the one that Tesla has expanded as far as they can |
| 1:46.2 | expand and upgraded as much as they can they have figured out how to do Quicksilver |
| 1:51.4 | in Fremont which is awesome by the way, because Tesla, as you may recall, had originally said that it was only possible for Quicksilver to be done at its advanced paint shop at Giga Berlin. |
| 2:04.8 | So I love that it's been cracked. |
| 2:06.8 | The code has been cracked and it's available in North America. |
| 2:10.2 | Now personally, I don't think anything you all know me well enough by now. |
| 2:14.4 | I don't think anything could get me to choose something besides Ultra Red on any of the Tesla's |
| 2:21.2 | at this point. Obviously aside from the cyber truck which doesn't have paint on it but |
| 2:26.8 | Quicksilver on the new model three I think is gonna look gorgeous in fact I saw a couple of Quicksilver Model Wies while I was driving around doing various errands today, including an unexpected trip to the vet again with poor little Mina UTI has has seemingly returned so they were able to see |
| 2:46.7 | us today and it's it's been a little bit it's been a little bit of a bumpy start just in terms of medically because well forget it |
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