Episode 552: The $60,000 Cybertruck Seems to Be a Hit
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The newly offered $60,000 Cybertruck seems to be generating plenty of demand – but its price is already going up. Plus: Model Y's recent interior changes appear to be imminent for the Model 3, Lamborghini abandons its EV plans, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, the newly offered $60,000 |
| 0:06.3 | cybertruck seems to be generating plenty of demand, but its prices already going up. |
| 0:12.8 | Plus, Model Y's recent interior changes appear to be imminent for the Model 3, Lamborghini |
| 0:19.0 | abandons its EV plans, and more. |
| 0:21.6 | ...and What's happening, friends, from scorching San Francisco? |
| 0:44.9 | We had summer in February here today, very strange, but kind of a nice change of pace for us when it's often not even 75 degrees in July. |
| 0:57.3 | My name's Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to Ride the Lightning, |
| 1:05.2 | your weekly Tesla and EV podcast publishing on March 1st, 2026, recording here in the evening on Friday, February 27th. I've got a tired Lily the Silly Labrador just out of sight from me after a nice |
| 1:14.2 | little warm weather walk and a nice chill Daisy the Boxer looking out the window to my left. |
| 1:19.4 | Zelina has gone back home. It was so nice to have her here for just to have a nice visit. |
| 1:24.8 | It was like she was at summer camp. She didn't have to be a service dog. |
| 1:28.4 | She just got to play with two other dogs for a week. |
| 1:31.1 | So that was fun. |
| 1:32.3 | Well, I want to say thank you to all of you. |
| 1:35.5 | I got so many supportive messages after my sort of unplanned rant. |
| 1:41.5 | I didn't intend to get as riled up as I did, but talking about the |
| 1:46.2 | $60,000 cyber truck last week and the whole, well, only for 10 days comments. So thank you to |
| 1:53.2 | those of you that sent me a supportive comment. And sure enough, since last week's recording, |
| 1:58.9 | we do have a clarification, an update on the status of the |
| 2:04.6 | $60,000 cyber truck. And I want to caveat this before I continue a moment further, that by the time |
| 2:11.5 | most of you hear this, you know, this episode publishes on March 1st, the price of the $60,000 cyber truck, the standard all-wheel drive |
| 2:21.3 | version, will be going up on the day this episode comes out. So this is one of those rare times |
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