Episode 474: Meet the Cybertruck Owners Road-Tripping to the Arctic
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Two Tesla owners who are taking their Cybertrucks to the literal top of the world join me to discuss their journey. Plus: Tesla’s referral program returns, another major music service looks to be coming to the Tesla fleet soon, Tesla’s running a pretty sweet promotional deal on the Model X, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, I talk with two Tesla owners who are taking their cyber trucks to the literal top of the world. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, Tesla's referral program returns. |
| 0:13.2 | Another major music service looks to be coming to the Tesla fleet soon. |
| 0:17.2 | Tesla's running a pretty sweet promotional deal on the Model X and more. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey and I am very pleased to be joining you for the |
| 0:46.1 | palindromatic episode 474 of Ride the Lightning. It's your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast, this one publishing on September 1st, |
| 0:56.3 | 2024. Daisy the Boxer to my left, Mine of the Future Service Dog, is with her other family right now. |
| 1:03.6 | I will get her back in about a week or so. |
| 1:06.4 | Can't wait to see what progress that |
| 1:08.5 | little Wonder Pup has made. |
| 1:10.4 | I hope all of you are doing well. Super fun episode of Ride the Lightning coming up a little later in the podcast as the |
| 1:17.8 | topic suggests the headline topic the title of this episode I will have an interview with two cyber truck owners who are |
| 1:25.0 | taking their cyber trucks farther than anyone's ever taken a cyber truck |
| 1:30.0 | before. So stay tuned for that a little later in the podcast but first let's get |
| 1:35.0 | warmed up with some fun stories here starting with this the referral program |
| 1:39.7 | is back after a brief hiatus it is now back in its, gosh at this point, fourth, fifth, maybe sixth |
| 1:48.0 | incarnation. It evolves, it changes every time it goes away and comes back. This time I think it's a really |
| 1:56.0 | enticing offer for both the referr and the referee and that is cold hard cash. In the case of the person using the |
| 2:07.4 | referral code, you get a $1,000 discount on a model 3, model Y, model S, or model X, no cyber truck on this one, |
| 2:18.4 | $1,000 off the purchase price of a new vehicle. |
| 2:23.0 | Tesla has done this before, but not in many, many years at this point. |
| 2:29.0 | Now we don't know how long this will be running, but certainly it will be going for at least |
| 2:35.4 | this month which is through the end of the quarter and personally I think there's a |
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