Episode 520: Tesla Reveals Longer, Six-Seat Model Y L

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Tesla introduces a six-seat, longer Model Y variant in China. Plus: a new X post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has many wondering if the new Tesla Roadster might finally be ready for a re-reveal, Tesla’s summer software update delivers a bunch of fun new features, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla introduces a six-seat longer wheelbase Model Y variant in China.
0:10.2	Plus, a new ex post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has many wondering if the new Tesla Roadster might finally be ready for a re-reveal.
0:19.4	Tesla's summer software update delivers a bunch of fun new features and more. What's happening, friends, it is episode 520 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla and EV podcast, publishing on July 20th, 2025.
0:57.8	My name is Ryan McCaffrey. Flanking me are my co-hosts this week, Daisy the Boxer, and who's over here? Ah, it's Maina the Future Service Dog, who just
1:04.9	went into heat today. So this poor pup is going to have to stay hanging around the house
1:10.1	for the next couple weeks, but it'll be fine.
1:13.5	She'll get through it, and then we'll get her back out into the world and out training for her future life as a service dog.
1:21.4	Coming up next week will be the Q2 earnings call.
1:25.2	So as always, stay tuned for next week's episode where I will do my usual recap, highlights,
1:31.8	and analysis.
1:33.3	That's always fun to put together every week.
1:35.4	It's always a sprint, but it is always fun when it gets put together.
1:41.6	Also fun this week, I want to start the podcast here. A little birdie tells me
1:46.5	that the Model Y mini, as I've been calling it, aka a physically smaller, cheaper Model Y, will be
1:54.7	announced at the earnings call this coming week. Now, I don't have any other details on it for now,
2:00.8	and you certainly don't
2:01.6	have to believe me, and maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I do trust this source. Although,
2:08.6	even if that doesn't happen, one new Model Y variant did get announced this week, the Model Y L. Yes, it is the six-seater, which we've talked about
2:21.2	here before, which was rumored to be coming out of China, and that's exactly what happened.
2:25.6	And yes, it's got a longer wheelbase by six inches, if you're curious, making the wheelbase
2:31.9	on the Model YL a couple inches longer than the Model X's wheelbase.
2:38.5	It is a longer vehicle to better, of course, accommodate three rows of passengers.
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