Episode 507: Cheaper Tesla Reportedly Delayed

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The more affordable Tesla that I’ve been calling the ‘Model 2.5’ is reportedly delayed, one Indiana police department has five years of fleet data that shows that using Teslas as police cars saves taxpayers a ton of money, the largest free EV charging park in the world is at Giga Berlin, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast,
0:04.0	the more affordable Tesla that I've been calling the Model 2.5 is reportedly delayed.
0:10.0	Plus, one Indiana police department has five years of fleet data
0:15.0	that shows that using Tesla's police cars saves taxpayers a ton of money.
0:20.0	Also, the largest free EV charging park in the world
0:23.6	is at Gigga Berlin and more. What's happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey, joining you for episode 507 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla and EV podcast, Daisy the Boxer, to my left.
0:57.2	And I want to start this week by saying thank you to the many of you that kindly voted in
1:01.7	this week's totally free Patreon poll, a reminder. The Patreon polls open to everyone.
1:07.1	You don't have to be supporting the podcast on Patreon. I just want you to stop by and cast your vote each week.
1:12.0	And many of you did so this week, which, as I promised last week, the topic was getting your thoughts on the new CyberTruck long-range rear-wheel drive variant.
1:23.9	I, of course, gave you my thoughts last week.
1:26.8	And the results were interesting.
1:29.3	Of the five poll choices, one of them was no opinion slash just show me the results, but the
1:34.1	most selected option in the poll was 37% of you said the tradeoff of range for features isn't
1:43.6	worth it to me.
1:45.2	Another 32%, so fairly close, voted for it's still too expensive.
1:52.1	11% said I would have rather had the $62,000, 250 mile range rear wheel drive cyber truck
2:00.0	with all the same features as the other two.
2:02.3	And then 6% of you said,
2:04.4	it's appealing to me.
2:05.8	I love the extra range and don't mind the missing features.
2:10.3	So we're going to hear a little bit more about this from all of you
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