Episode 492: Analyzing Tesla’s 2024 Production and Delivery Numbers

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Tesla releases its production and delivery totals for Q4 – and thus we know the numbers for all of 2024. Did they hit their goal? Plus: Cybertruck now qualifies for the $7500 point-of-sale tax credit, the new Model 3 wins a big award in Europe, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Tesla releases its production and delivery totals for Q4, and thus we know the numbers for all of 2024.
0:11.1	Did they hit their goal?
0:12.6	Plus, Cybertruck now qualifies for the $7,500 point-of-sale tax credit.
0:17.8	The new Model 3 wins a big award in Europe and more. What's happening, friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you. As always, for Ride the Lightning,
0:46.3	the Tesla unofficial podcast. I come at you every week, every Sunday at 9 a.m. Eastern, 6 a.m. Pacific.
0:52.5	This is episode 492, the first one of 2025. It's
0:58.0	publishing on January 5th. To my left are two four-legged friends, Daisy the Boxer and Mine of the
1:04.6	future service dog. Happy New Year to all of you. I hope your 2025 is off to a great start. Mine is off to an interesting
1:14.7	start in the car department. That means yes, I have another tire story for you and I'm going to
1:22.0	tell you the whole thing at the end of the podcast so that if you just showed up for the Tesla news and you don't care
1:28.1	what's going on with my car, you won't miss anything. But for those of you that want to stick
1:32.8	around, I've got a fun story for you later on. As I get going here in 2025, a quick thing that I
1:41.5	missed because I recorded early last week, and this might possibly be all over and done with by the time you hear this, but I think it's worth mentioning anyway, and that is that Tesla was, and again, perhaps still is, if there are any inventory left, offering free lifetime supercharging on the remaining inventory
2:03.4	of Foundation series Cybertrucks. I note this because, number one, some of you might be interested
2:12.4	in buying one. So that's first and foremost. Number two, I'm on the record on this podcast saying that I thought that no cyber truck would ever get free lifetime supercharging because of PowerShare.
2:25.6	Because theoretically, you could power your whole house and any other Teslas that you own with your cyber truck
2:34.4	that you could charge up exclusively via your free supercharging.
2:38.6	Now, it's entirely possible that Tesla might revoke
2:42.5	your free lifetime supercharging if you abuse that,
2:45.7	meaning, say, blatant and repeated offenses
2:49.3	that they would no doubt be able to see by looking at the power
2:52.5	going into and out of the truck. But I couldn't find any fine print that specifically spelled
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