Episode 554: Rivian R2 Pricing Revealed
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Rivian announces pricing for the hotly anticipated R2. Plus: the Model Y L comes to another market (no, it's not the US…yet), Tesla files a patent for some interesting new seats on the next-gen Tesla Roadster, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Rivian announces pricing for the hotly anticipated R2. |
| 0:09.2 | Plus, the Model YL comes to another market, and no, it's not the U.S., yet. |
| 0:15.6 | Tesla files a patent for some interesting new seats on the next-gen Tesla Roadster and more. What's happening, friends? |
| 0:42.7 | I'm Ryan McCaffrey, joining you as I do every single week for Ride the Lightning, |
| 0:47.1 | the Tesla and EV podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | It's episode 554 publishing on March 15th, 2026. I'm recording here in the evening on Friday the 13th. I'm flanked as always by my two canine companions, Daisy the Boxer, and a snoozing Lily the Silly Labrador. Well, I will start this week with a little little birdies are chirping at me and they say interesting |
| 1:14.2 | things now this this little birdie i will say is a more reliable one uh than then maybe the |
| 1:20.6 | last time a little birdie tweeted at me or chirped at me uh because it wasn't tweet but this |
| 1:27.3 | birdie is a a uh, someone that's come |
| 1:30.1 | through for me in the past. So as always take it with a great assault. Can't guarantee it with |
| 1:35.8 | 100% certainty. It's still, you know, still a secondhand source. It's not something I was |
| 1:40.9 | directly told myself by, by anybody, uh anybody with direct access to this stuff but |
| 1:47.2 | here's some here's some rumor for you the model Y L will arrive in the US in September |
| 1:55.5 | that is what my source is currently hearing and I'll give you a bonus tidbit, little bonus chirp from |
| 2:02.8 | same little birdie, that the cyber SUV, an SUV built on the cyber truck platform, is in fact |
| 2:12.5 | happening. So that again, that'll remain to be seen. That's a certainly a much bigger claim than just the model YL coming to the U.S. in September. |
| 2:23.9 | But if the cyber SUV is happening, boy, that would be awesome because I think it might honestly, uh, kind of reignite some faith that Tesla wants to keep making cars and not just reason wise, |
| 2:43.8 | and then the occasional cyber truck and the occasional next-gen roadster in a couple years. |
| 2:50.0 | So a cyber SUV, boy, yeah, that I think would really get a lot of people pretty excited. |
| 2:55.4 | Plus, just think about it in pure practical terms. |
| 2:59.5 | If it uses HFS, the hard freaking stainless that also skins the cyber truck, you would have an SUV, a family SUV that you just |
| 3:11.8 | wouldn't have to worry about door dings and the kids scratching it or doing anything, |
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