Episode 497: New Model Y – My First Hands-On Impressions

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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I got an up-close-and-personal look at the new Model Y and heard from two senior Tesla employees from the Model Y team about the redesigned car. Highlights from that, plus: the Cybertruck now formally gets the point-of-sale $7500 tax credit, good news for Tesla Insurance customers who use Full Self-Driving a lot, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, I got an up close and
0:05.6	personal look at the new Model Y and heard from two senior Tesla employees from the Model Y team
0:12.6	about the redesigned car. Highlights from that, plus the cyber truck now formally gets the point
0:19.4	of sale $7,500 tax credit, good news for Tesla insurance
0:24.0	customers who use FSD a lot and more. What's happening, welcome to Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast.
0:52.2	This is episode 497 publishing on February 9th, 2025. To my left,
1:00.6	snuggled on the couch, is Daisy the Boxer, and at my feet also curled up in a little Labrador ball,
1:07.6	is Mine of the Future Service dog. I am so thrilled to be with you for the 497th
1:13.8	consecutive week here talking about all things Tesla. And as usual, there's a lot to talk about.
1:20.1	And it's going to be fun. I wanted to start this week by saying thank you, a sincere, full-throated,
1:26.8	hearty thank you to the many of you who reached
1:30.8	out to help me with my problem from last week. I was talking about my cloud profile-related seat
1:38.0	issue when I was going back and forth between our two Model 3s, and a whole bunch of you reached out to help me solve
1:46.7	this. And I think maybe I was even able to pass along that help to a few other people who'd
1:52.8	written in with the same thing. So I'll just say it here to hopefully help even more people,
1:58.6	since you all were nice enough to help me, to fix this,
2:01.6	or at least this should fix it, it fixed it for me. Go into the car controls menu. Of course,
2:07.0	you tap the lower left corner of the screen to access that, and then go into the service menu,
2:12.5	not the service, but the one that's just labeled service, the service tab, and then click the driver's seat,
2:19.9	steering, and mirrors calibration button, run that. And it totally, it took about 30 seconds at
2:27.0	the most, totally worked like a charm for me. And now when I go to either car, either Model 3,
2:33.8	my seat, mirrors, steering wheel, everything is just exactly how I want it, which means this feature is working as intended for me now, which I'm super grateful for.
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