Episode 556: Tesla CEO: "Something Way Cooler Than a Minivan Is Coming"
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is teasing a new vehicle that may or may not match the "Cyburban" I told you about in a recent episode. Plus: more evidence that the Model Y L's arrival in the United States is imminent, FSD Supervised takes a crucial step closer to rolling out in Europe, Sony's PlayStation car will not be going into production, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is teasing a new vehicle that may or may not match the |
| 0:09.7 | cyberbin I told you about in a recent episode. Plus, more evidence that the Model Y L's arrival in the United States is imminent. FSD supervised takes a crucial step closer |
| 0:22.2 | to rolling out in Europe. |
| 0:24.3 | Sony's PlayStation car |
| 0:25.9 | will not be going into production |
| 0:27.5 | and more. |
| 0:28.4 | Music What's happening, friends, alongside Lily the Labrador to my right lying on the floor and Daisy the Boxer to my left looking |
| 0:56.1 | out the window from the couch. My name's Ryan McCaffrey. Welcome to episode 556 of Ride the Lightning, |
| 1:02.9 | your weekly Tesla and Evie podcast publishing on March 29th, 2006. And I'm recording here on Friday evening on the 27th of March. |
| 1:14.7 | Well, following up on last week's podcast, I can't call it proof that my source from a few weeks |
| 1:23.2 | ago was correct about the Model YL coming to the U.S. in September, but I do have what I think is |
| 1:30.6 | fair to call corroborating evidence. It comes courtesy of Joe Tectmeyer. He's the gentleman who's |
| 1:38.4 | picked up many interesting tidbits of activity over at Gigga, Texas, ever since it was first under construction, courtesy of his |
| 1:46.7 | regular drone flyovers of the facility. Well, on one of his flyovers this week, Joe captured an |
| 1:53.8 | image of a complete, shrink-wrapped body in white, which is basically a skeleton of a car. It doesn't have, you know, |
| 2:04.3 | body panels on. It doesn't have tires, wheels, or glass. And that body in white was being taken out |
| 2:10.9 | of a gigantic shipping crate. That body in white was a model Y, but not just any Model Y. It was very clearly the Model Y, |
| 2:23.6 | L, which obviously was shipped over from Giga Shanghai, presumably so that the Texas team can use |
| 2:31.6 | it for reference, learn from it, measure against it as they begin the process |
| 2:37.5 | of building the Model YL in that factory. I suppose it remains to be seen if the Model YL will get |
| 2:46.5 | built in Fremont as well, or if they might just do it in one factory. |
| 2:51.3 | Currently they're not doing any of the Model Ys that way. |
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