Episode 486: More High-Passenger Teslas in the Works

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tesla looks like they’re planning multiple high-passenger vehicles, a popular upgrade option returns on the new Model 3, Tesla sweetens the deal for customers taking delivery in the stretch run of 2024, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Tesla looks like they're
0:05.4	planning multiple high passenger vehicles. A popular upgrade option returns on the new Model 3. Tesla
0:12.7	sweetens the deal for customers taking delivery here in the stretch run of 2024 and more. What's happening, Ryan McCaffrey, alongside Daisy the Boxer, and this is your weekly
0:43.1	dose of Tesla news and analysis.
0:45.3	It's Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast.
0:48.4	This one publishing on November 24, 2024, it's episode 486. Coming up this week, I want to wish a happy Thanksgiving to all of my
0:58.7	American listeners. And perhaps soon, a happy Tesla delivery day to me. If you'll indulge me for
1:07.9	just a moment, I know this podcast is not about me. It's about
1:11.1	Tesla, and I normally just talk about whatever's going on with me towards the end, but I did
1:16.1	want to share with you here at the top that I have ordered my next Tesla, and it's the new Model 3
1:23.1	performance. I went into great detail on this, on this week's lightning round episode on Patreon,
1:30.5	which I recorded literally as I submitted the order. I clicked the order button on that
1:35.9	lightning round, and I released it to the Patreon backers immediately after. But the short version
1:40.7	is that, honestly, it was too good a deal to pass up. As much as I love the
1:46.9	cyber truck and I'm excited about the cyber truck, the new Model 3 performance, which I've
1:52.3	test driven twice and been flung around the Tesla-Fremont factory test track in once at high speeds,
2:00.1	it's a great car and boy is the deal really, really,
2:04.9	really great right now. It worked out to about $30,000 less for this car than a cyber truck
2:11.7	right now. And on top of that, I got zero percent financing the Tesla's offering on the threes and on the Y's right now,
2:21.1	both of which combined to allow me to do a three-year loan instead of a five.
2:27.5	And like I said, it's just such a great car.
2:31.5	I mean, I'm now, I've, I mean, I guess I've been biased for six and a half years since I bought my 2018 Model 3 performance, but everything I've been taking a look at with the new one, the new Model 3 performance might be the best overall car for the money that Tesla makes. And I know that's something that we could all
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