Episode 472: Consumer Reports Hails Tesla’s Low Total Cost of Ownership

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Consumer Reports offers new data that shows just how affordable Teslas are to own through the first decade of ownership, the Cybertruck gets a pricey new accessory, Tesla’s craziest new Supercharger location makes notable construction progress, 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	Consumer Reports offers new data that shows just how affordable Tesla's are to own
0:09.6	through the first decade of ownership. The Cyber Truck gets a pricey new accessory.
0:14.8	Tesla's craziest new supercharger location makes notable construction
0:19.6	progress and more. What's happening, happening, I'm Ryan McCaffrey,
0:33.0	alongside Dase of the Boxer to my left and just
0:45.9	immediately to my left below here on the floor chilling out on a pillow is mine of the
0:50.4	future service dog puppy. Welcome to Ride the Lightning.
0:53.1	It's your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast.
0:55.6	This one's episode 472 for August 18, 2024.
1:01.6	And I start here with the Cyber truck this week let's get things
1:04.8	warmed up the cyber trucks range extender which I feel like I just mentioned gosh one or
1:10.7	two episodes back I was talking or something along the lines of we haven't heard anything about it in a while well
1:17.6	we now have it's back in the news a little bit and that news is that it's been delayed but seemingly only by just a little bit.
1:26.0	As noticed by eagle-eyed Tesla tipster Sawyer Merit,
1:30.0	the cyber truck page on the Tesla.com website now shows the ETA for the range extender as early 2025.
1:39.0	So not much of a bump from the late 2024 that had been showing for the past what nine months or so now
1:46.1	but a little bit of a delay nevertheless I know that some of you Foundation Series cyber truck owners did put down a
1:56.0	500 dollar non-refundable deposit on the range extender when you ordered your
2:00.8	truck so hopefully the range extender doesn't get pushed out any further and those of you that have put down that deposit can get that range extender installed in the near term future hopefully six months or less at this point
2:15.6	would be the hope now that we're into mid-August. The Patreon poll question for
2:21.8	this week is about the Cyber Truck Range Extender.
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