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🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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The Model Y is already the best-selling new car in the world, but it’s now also on the verge of becoming the best-selling new car in America, too. Plus: the Boring Company Loop in Las Vegas might soon get Cybertrucks, there’s reason for optimism for those of you outside of North America hoping to buy a Cybertruck, 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 | the model Y is already the best-selling new car in the world, |
0:07.2 | but it's now also on the verge of becoming the best-selling new car in America, too. |
0:12.2 | Plus, the Boring company loop in Las Vegas might soon |
0:15.6 | get cyber trucks. There's reason for optimism for those of you outside of North America |
0:20.6 | hoping to buy a cyber truck and more. What's happening, happening, right? What's happening, right? |
0:34.0 | What's? |
0:35.0 | What's? |
0:36.0 | What's happening, Ryan McCaffrey joining you for episode 478 of Ride the Lightning. It's your |
0:49.1 | weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. This one's publishing on September 29th, 2024, the end of Q3 here for |
0:57.8 | Tesla. Behind me, if you hear some huffing and puffing in the background, That'd be Daisy the boxer. She's fine, but it is |
1:05.9 | unseasonably warm today here in the San Francisco area. And San Francisco specifically |
1:12.0 | where I am, we just got back from a long |
1:14.4 | gorgeous walk where I didn't have to put on a jacket. Yes, that is a thing that you have to do |
1:20.0 | from about 5 PM onwards most of the year including the summer here in San Francisco |
1:27.3 | Anyway, I'm having a great day. I hope you're having a great day as you hear this and as I said we have come to the end of Q3 for |
1:36.2 | Tesla which means coming up on next week's podcast the Q3 production and |
1:42.3 | delivery numbers. |
1:44.0 | So not only will we see how the quarter went for Tesla, |
1:48.0 | which as we know was loaded with incentives for the model 3, the model y, and the model x as well, |
1:57.0 | but those numbers will also tell us how close Tesla is to its overall |
2:02.0 | 2024 production and delivery forecasts from the beginning of the year. |
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