Episode 498: Jay Leno Gets New Details on the New Model Y
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and world-renowned car enthusiast Jay Leno – perhaps Tesla’s biggest celebrity fan – welcomed Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen and VP of Engineering Lars Moravy to his garage this week to show off the new Model Y, and we learned a lot of fun things about the refreshed vehicle in the process. Plus: thieves who try to steal the copper out of Tesla Supercharging cables will soon be in for a not-so-fun surprise, an update on the timeline for the first 500kW Superchargers, 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 | comedian and world-renowned car enthusiast Jay Leno, perhaps Tesla's biggest celebrity fan, |
| 0:10.0 | welcomed Tesla chief designer Franz von Holshousen and vice president of engineering Lars Moravy |
| 0:16.0 | to his garage this past week to show off the new Model Y, and we learned a lot of fun things about |
| 0:21.6 | the refreshed vehicle in the process. Plus, thieves who try to steal the copper out of Tesla |
| 0:27.5 | supercharging cables will soon be in for a not-so-fund surprise, an update on the timeline for the |
| 0:33.1 | first 500-kil-watt superchargers and more. What's happening, friends? |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning episode 498 for February 16th, 2025. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey to my left. |
| 1:07.0 | Daisy the Boxer looking longingly out the window. |
| 1:09.2 | We just got back from a walk. |
| 1:12.4 | And I am thrilled to be with you here for episode 498. You know, for almost 10 years now, I have had so much |
| 1:19.5 | fun talking about Tesla's cars, Tesla as a company, and its mission, and boy, am I just getting |
| 1:25.7 | started. I am so looking forward to the next 10 years with |
| 1:30.0 | all the cool cars, all the cool products we're going to see. But besides talking about the company |
| 1:36.7 | and the cars, every now and again, I get to talk two very awesome individual people at Tesla. |
| 1:45.0 | And so I am thrilled to announce that the episode 500 festivities are going to kick off one week early next week on 499 when Tesla's vice president of engineering, Lars Moravy, joins me for a wide-ranging interview about his long career at Tesla. |
| 2:04.6 | I'm saying this because it's actually happened. Like, I have the file. It didn't get canceled or rescheduled. So I'm always careful. I never promised anything until I know for sure I can deliver it. |
| 2:18.7 | And this happened yesterday. I went down there. I went down to Tesla's engineering HQ to sit down with Lars for that interview. |
| 2:27.6 | And I think we touched on pretty much every past, present, and future vehicle that Tesla has, which has had a fantastic time |
| 2:37.1 | to give you an idea of how it went. The first thing that Lars said to me when he walked in |
| 2:42.8 | the room other than hello was, you want to go for a drive? And then he handed me the key card |
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