Episode 502: Out With the Old (Model Y), in With the New (Model Y)
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Tesla is no longer offering custom orders for the classic Model Y, signaling the end of the line for the first generation of the world’s best-selling vehicle and the beginning of its second generation. Plus: Model 3 gets an impressive financing incentive, Cybertruck might finally be heading Down Under, Rivian is extending a hand to orphaned Fisker Ocean owners, and more! NOTE: The non-Tesla EV segment runs from 30:48-41:55 if you'd prefer to skip it.
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tesla is no longer offering custom orders for the classic Model Y, |
| 0:09.0 | signaling the end of the line for the first generation of the world's best-selling vehicle |
| 0:13.0 | and the beginning of its second generation. |
| 0:16.0 | Plus, Model 3 gets an impressive financing incentive. |
| 0:20.0 | Cybertruck might finally be heading down under, |
| 0:23.0 | Rivian is extending a hand to orphaned Fisker ocean owners and more. |
| 0:28.1 | ... What's happening, friends, Ryan McCaffrey, alongside Daisy the Boxer and Mind of the Future |
| 0:52.7 | Service dog. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome to Ride the Lightning. |
| 0:54.9 | It is your weekly Tesla and EB podcast, episode 502 publishing on March 16th, 2025. Well, |
| 1:03.6 | for me, with this podcast, it's back to normal for the first time in a month. I have to tell you, and I have the receipts to prove it, |
| 1:12.9 | I have never been out of my usual podcast routine for this long before. Not in the entire |
| 1:20.4 | 9.6 or so years that I've been doing this. If you're a new listener by chance who heard all the buzz |
| 1:30.1 | about one of the three big interviews that I've done over the last three weeks, I want to say |
| 1:34.8 | welcome as the puppies are now rumbling behind me. So if you hear something weird, that's what's going |
| 1:40.3 | on. I got a lot of really nice emails and social media messages and texts from people |
| 1:48.2 | saying how much they enjoyed those last three episodes. And I just want to tell you I really |
| 1:53.3 | appreciate all of those kind words. Because I can sincerely tell you I put a lot of hard work |
| 2:00.3 | into those last three episodes and those |
| 2:03.0 | interviews and and plenty of travel money out of my own pocket too. And I can really say, |
| 2:08.9 | and I can reflect back on it and say that I'm really proud of how those three episodes turned out. |
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