Episode 515: Updated Model S and X Officially Announced

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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4.8 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Tesla has finally launched the updated Model S and X. I’ll tell you about all the changes and what I think of them. Plus: another new Model Y variant appears to be coming very soon, we’ve got a few new robotaxi updates to discuss, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla has finally launched the updated Model S and X.
0:08.5	I'll tell you about all the changes and what I think of them.
0:11.9	Plus, another new Model Y variant appears to be coming very soon.
0:16.5	We've got a few new Robotaxy updates to discuss and more.
0:20.2	Thank you. We've got a few new Robotaxi updates to discuss and more. What's happening, friends? Welcome to episode 515 of Ride the Lightning. It's your weekly
0:46.2	Tesla unofficial podcast and other EVs too. I am joined by Daisy the Boxer to my left and just outside
0:53.1	the door actually scratching at it right now,
0:55.5	my daughter's coming downstairs to keep an eye on her and play with her a bit, is Lily the silly Labrador.
1:01.6	I had Lily in here, but she started chewing on my desk, which just comes through on the microphone.
1:06.7	So she's going to have to be out there entertained by my daughter.
1:10.4	Anyway, it's a palindrome, 515, 515 front and back.
1:15.1	It's fun to have those every 11 episodes.
1:18.3	And we start with the headline story this week, the one that we've, well,
1:22.3	least I've been waiting for for a while here, especially these last few weeks.
1:27.2	The new Model S&X refresh, maybe call it more
1:31.6	of an update, but refresh watch 2025 has ended. The cars have finally been announced. So on Thursday
1:40.8	morning, here's the timeline of this from this past week, on Thursday morning,
1:46.1	a Tesla contact reached out to me to tell me that the new S and X had begun arriving at Tesla
1:53.5	stores, presumably as demo vehicles and or showroom cars for people to, you know, sit in inside the showroom. And so with that very
2:05.3	public move, plus the fact that Tesla has typically done design studio updates on Thursday evenings
2:12.8	for whatever reason, that just seems to be their cadence, I figured that Thursday was probably
2:20.0	going to be the night. And I tweeted that out, or posted it on X, and sure enough, at about 6 p.m.
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