Episode 525: Tons of New Model Y L Details Revealed
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
The new six-seat, longer-wheelbase Model Y L has officially launched in China, and we've got a ton of new details about the biggest Model Y ever as a result – and some of them are very pleasantly surprising! Plus: Model 3 adds a highly desired part back into the interior in China; the Model S, X, and Cybertruck get a fancy new Luxe Package; 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 new six-seat longer wheel-based Model Y L has officially launched in China, |
| 0:10.1 | and we've got a ton of new details about the biggest Model Y ever as a result, |
| 0:15.9 | and some of them are very pleasantly surprising. |
| 0:19.2 | Plus, Model 3 adds a highly desired part |
| 0:22.9 | back into the interior in China, |
| 0:25.4 | the Model S, X, and Cybertruck |
| 0:27.3 | get a fancy new Lux package, and more. |
| 0:30.0 | Music What's happening, friends, I'm Ryan McCaffrey, joining you for the palindromatic episode 525 of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, coming at you every single Sunday at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific. This one is publishing on August 24th, 2025. I am surrounded by not one, not two, but three wonderful four-legged friends. I've got |
| 1:14.7 | Daisy the boxer to my immediate left. Oh, somebody who's not supposed to be on the couch, |
| 1:20.1 | that would be mine of the future service dog. I'm going to have to shuffle her off of there |
| 1:23.4 | in a second because that's against the canine companion's rules. And behind me, chewing on a |
| 1:28.1 | bone or something over there would be Lily the silly Labrador puppy. As I said, this is a palindrome |
| 1:34.8 | episode 525. I always like pointing those out because they're just fun. Speaking of fun, I want to |
| 1:42.1 | thank everybody that came out to my Ride the Lightning listener meetup this past week at the Tesla diner in Hollywood. |
| 1:50.0 | I'll be going to be totally honest with you guys, as always. |
| 1:53.3 | It is incredibly humbling that anyone, let alone the great group of people that came, that anyone would take time out of their |
| 2:02.2 | life to drive an hour across L.A., or in some folks' cases, even longer and farther than that, |
| 2:10.8 | just to come out and meet up with me and check out the Tesla diner. I mean, it is super humbling, |
| 2:17.1 | honestly. And speaking of that listener meetup at the Tesla Diner. I mean, it is super humbling, honestly. |
| 2:18.5 | And speaking of that listener meetup at the Tesla Diner, |
| 2:22.5 | this week's Lightning Round mini episode, |
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