Episode 494: Cybertruck Tops US EV Pickup Truck Sales in 2024
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
A not-even-fully-ramped-up-yet Cybertruck beats all of its competition to become the best-selling EV pickup truck of 2024. Plus: production of the new Model Y has reportedly begun in another one of Tesla’s gigafactories, Tesla tops another major automaker in global sales, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, a not even fully ramped up yet |
| 0:06.8 | cyber truck beats all of its competition to become the best-selling EV pickup truck of 2024. |
| 0:13.2 | Plus, production of the new Model Y has reportedly begun in another one of Tesla's gigafactories, |
| 0:19.5 | Tesla tops another major automaker in global sales and more. What's happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey joining you for episode 494 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:52.1 | This one's dropping on January 19th, 2025. To my left, on her couch, |
| 0:58.8 | curled up in a boxer ball is Daisy the boxer. I, on the other hand, am fully wide awake, |
| 1:04.5 | ready to talk all things Tesla with you for the next hour plus. And as always, there is plenty to talk about. |
| 1:12.5 | I wanna start with a quick correction |
| 1:15.2 | from last week's podcast, or maybe a couple episodes now. |
| 1:18.5 | A caller in the Ride the Lightning Hotline |
| 1:20.7 | from a couple episodes ago had responded |
| 1:23.8 | to another caller's concern about the rear lift gate |
| 1:26.8 | on the Model Y, saying that the responding |
| 1:30.8 | caller said that the lift gate does remember the maximum height you set it at on a location |
| 1:37.9 | by location basis, meaning that it would raise up to different maximum heights depending on where you were based on you GPS tagging that in the car. |
| 1:49.7 | Now, a couple of folks have since called in to tell me that unfortunately, this is not the case. |
| 1:55.8 | I'm not sure if I had misheard the caller mentioning that, if I just misinterpreted the caller, |
| 2:01.5 | if the caller themselves got a little bit mixed up. But regardless, I did want to apologize |
| 2:06.2 | and issue that correction. And I'll say to anybody from Tesla listening that if it is possible |
| 2:14.5 | to add location specific maximum rear lift gate heights on not just the model |
| 2:21.6 | Y, but also the S and X as well, that the car can remember so that it might only go up |
| 2:27.8 | three quarters of the way in your own garage, but outside of that it'll go up all the way. |
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