Episode 493: New Model Y (aka Project Juniper) Officially Revealed!

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The redesigned Model Y, aka Project Juniper, has been revealed by Tesla China. I’ll tell you about what’s new, my thoughts on the design, and when it’s launching in China. Plus: Tesla is the most searched-for car brand in America, every Tesla will soon get an AI chatbot, 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 redesigned Model Y, aka Project Juniper, has been revealed by Tesla China.
0:11.0	I'll tell you about what's new, my thoughts on the design, and when it's launching in China.
0:16.3	Plus, Tesla is the most searched for car brand in America.
0:20.8	Every Tesla will soon get an AI chatbot and more. What's happening, friends, welcome to Ride the Lightning.
0:47.6	It is your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast.
0:50.5	It's January 12th, 2025 as I publish this, January 10th in the evening as I record. Welcome to episode
0:57.3	493 to my left, Daisy the Boxer. She is hanging out on the couch, all chilled out after her
1:04.7	walk, and behind me, a little bored, if I'm honest, she's looking pretty bored, mine of the
1:09.5	Future Service Dog. I am anything
1:11.6	but bored. This is going to be a huge episode of the podcast. You already know what I'm going to talk
1:17.3	about. But before I do, I wanted to take a quick moment and just send out a heartfelt bit of love,
1:23.8	just my thoughts and prayers to everyone affected in the Los Angeles area.
1:30.3	Any of you listeners out there, Tesla employees, like I know Franz and the design team all live
1:37.3	down there, and everybody else that have been affected either directly or indirectly by these
1:43.2	absolutely horrific wildfires
1:45.2	that have devastated parts of Los Angeles this week.
1:49.2	So hopefully it's all going to get contained very soon.
1:52.7	I know today, Friday as I'm recording, it seemed like the winds had died down and it gave
1:57.8	firefighters and first responders a better chance to to start to contain
2:03.5	this thing. So just yeah, all my best to everybody affected by this. And let's talk Tesla. I mean,
2:11.4	if you want to take your mind off of it or just want to dive in. There is a huge story this week.
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