Episode 512: New Model Y Performance, Updated S and X Spotted!

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The new Model Y Performance, an updated Model S, and an updated Model X were all spotted out in the wild – separately! – suggesting that the debuts of those vehicles are imminent. Plus: owners of the refreshed Model 3 and Model Y can now get a subtle but premium upgrade to their dashboards, new details on the upcoming robotaxi rollout in Austin, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla, and EV podcast, the new Model Y performance, an updated Model S, and an updated Model X were all spotted out in the wild separately, suggesting that the debuts of those vehicles are imminent.
0:17.5	Plus, owners of the refreshed Model 3 and Model Y can now get a subtle but premium
0:22.9	upgrade to their dashboards, new details on the upcoming Robotaxie rollout in Austin, and
0:28.8	more. What's happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey, joining you alongside Daisy the Boxer. The two Labradorers are out somewhere in the house playing.
0:56.0	Welcome to episode 512 of Ride the Lightning. It is your weekly Tesla and EV podcast. It'll be very Tesla-centric this week. There's a lot of fun stuff to talk about. It's episode 50012 for May 25th, 2025. And I'll start right here with something that I saw last
1:17.5	weekend. So I was supercharging. And when I saw this, I thought, well, this might be nothing,
1:24.2	but my gut told me that it was something, and as the week unfolded,
1:29.3	it turns out I was right. So, as I said, I was supercharging last weekend, and there was a Model X,
1:35.1	a couple stalls over from me that at one point, when I looked and just glanced over, I noticed that
1:41.9	it had unique wheels on it, had very nice, arrow-looking star pattern,
1:48.0	gray and black, glossy-looking wheels. And I had two thoughts when I saw these wheels on this
1:54.8	Model X. One was, well, I've never seen those before. And then my second thought was, those look way too nice to be aftermarket.
2:05.3	And then before I could get out of the car and go slyly take a look at them, the Model X pulled away.
2:12.3	And I just took a look to see, hmm, is this Model X that's pulling away right now going to have manufacturer
2:20.3	plates, meaning is this a Tesla vehicle? And sure enough, it absolutely did, which means again,
2:26.9	it was a Tesla-owned vehicle. So what I'm getting at here is that I think that I might have
2:33.7	just seen the new wheels for the Model X.
2:36.7	And again, as the week rolled on, I would be proven correct, which I'll tell you more about
2:41.4	in a second.
2:41.9	So as of now, as of this recording, Friday evening, it's 737 p.m. Pacific as I'm in this very
2:50.5	moment, there's nothing on the Tesla design studio yet. It's 7.37 p.m. Pacific as I'm in this very moment.
2:51.8	There's nothing on the Tesla design studio yet.
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