[SPEAKER_04]: Hey everybody, I'm Zach and I'm Jesse.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're watching Test the Time News.
[SPEAKER_04]: Episode 645 on now, you know.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you finally got what you wanted.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said, Model Y long wheelbase now available to order in the U.S.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Model Y-O!
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go, finally, okay, so we have a model Y, that's now bigger.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bigger than a model X in the United States.
[SPEAKER_03]: We finally have a big SUV for the US market for Tesla.
[SPEAKER_04]: Including Puerto Rico.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the three-row, six-seat configuration that brings exceptional interior space with ample headroom and legroom for all passengers.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go through what you're gonna get.
[SPEAKER_04]: Zero to 16, 4.4 seconds, 325 miles of range.
[SPEAKER_04]: The front row heated ventilated seats with powered thigh cushion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't have that right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not powered die cushion, I think we do.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, powered die cushion is the one that comes out and picks up your thigh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's in the premium.
[SPEAKER_04]: Second row, heat-adventilated captain seats with powered armrests.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Third row, heated seats with power recline, one touch fold, and child seat anchors.
[SPEAKER_04]: Improved airflow increased efficiency in more range.
[SPEAKER_04]: 89 cubic feet of trunk space with six passengers, trunk still fits a 28-inch by 20-inch.
[SPEAKER_04]: Suitcase each, plus front holds an additional 28-inch.
[SPEAKER_04]: also easily fit.
[SPEAKER_04]: Engine air for safety with seat belts and side airbag optimites for 2nd and 3rd row, upgraded acoustic glass and suspension to minimize road noise adaptive damping for smooth stable ride, staggered tires for intense grip, larger tailgate for better rear visibility and bigger windows over all to deliver great use from every seat, 16 inch first row and 8 inch second row touch screens and a 19-speaker immersive Tesla audio upgraded 50 watt wireless charging pads with active cooling and charging ports for all other seats.
[SPEAKER_03]: while it charges, I need that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And of course, FSD supervised and integrated grock.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I just wanted to point out if you look at a model X, which that I'll make anymore, and the Model YL, the Model YL actually has a longer wheelbase.
[SPEAKER_04]: 119.6 inches versus 116.7 inches.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you're actually kind of getting a model X for $40,000 less.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I mean, it's
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean, you don't get the Falcon Wing doors, but I mean, come on, it's kind of amazing what they were able to pull off because everyone really liked the six-seat version of the Model X And they took everything they'd learn from that and put it into the Model Y and there it is You long reposted this from Tesla North America the first builds of the Model Y a long wheelbase at Giga, Texas
[SPEAKER_03]: So now the only problem is you don't have one, but I don't have one, and because it's called the model YL or the model Y long wheel base, I think that a lot of people don't know about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we should call it the model YYYY.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because that sort of looks like it is confusing because the other logo is just a model Y with like the couple more wise next to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think a lot of people want this car, but I think that a lot of people don't know that they want this car.
[SPEAKER_03]: I totally agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the tricky thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and you're not going to really notice those three inches, you know, when your neighbor gets when you're going to think they just got them out of why.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it is hard.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to have to tell the world about it everybody.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's your job.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is what I'm excited about because I think a lot of people I've gotten so much pushback to the model why.
[SPEAKER_03]: First of all, I show them the model why and they go like, oh, it's not big enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like, first of all, it is big enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it makes the lady tough for a test too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think a lot of people think you have to have a boxy suburban to have the space that you need.
[SPEAKER_04]: But for most people, unless you're going to carry around for a derailleur, this is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, I've had boxy SUVs before.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't fit a refrigerator in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're just going to have the tailgate open.
[SPEAKER_03]: And with the model Y, if you are moving something so crazily big, when the tailgate goes up, you get all of that space.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, just carry a trailer.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a million things that you can do.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's also called, like, maybe you just buy a cyber truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's one possibility.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I think that for a lot of people, they were just conditioned to say, like, oh, well, it has to be a big boxy car.
[SPEAKER_03]: The thing is with a normal SUV, it's just so much higher off the ground that you're missing all that space, but you look at the top of the car and the, but you aren't looking at the bottom of the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm so excited about with the Model YL.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now you can tell them that it's bigger.
[SPEAKER_03]: They'll probably go to the showroom, they go like, well, it's really big.
[SPEAKER_03]: And actually, the regular Model Y was really big.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was cheaper.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, this is roomy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Look at that!
[SPEAKER_03]: What are we looking at?
[SPEAKER_03]: Why is Florida checked off?
[SPEAKER_04]: Cause Cecil Robotaxi just posted, Kay, look, way, me, Ami?
[SPEAKER_03]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you speak a never languages now?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_04]: Robotaxi now available in Miami.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here's the Robotaxi coverage map for Miami.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's mostly Western Miami, and I know looking at these rectangles doesn't help, so I place it over the map of Miami.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you can see that you got the airport covered, and you've got basically Western Miami there.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you're not gonna get over to the fun parts of Miami, but at least for now you've got that part covered about 12 square miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as we've seen before, Tesla usually rolls out to a smaller area and then they expand from there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon reposted Tesla's Q2 numbers, production 451,758 deliveries even higher because they had a lot of stuff stored up, 480,126 energy storage deployments of 13.5 gigawatt hours.
[SPEAKER_04]: Our Q2 company update will be streamed live on X on July 22nd at 430 Central.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I think we'll be doing our show the next morning, so please stay tuned on July 23rd.
[SPEAKER_04]: The Model Y was the best selling car in New Zealand in June.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we have the latest sales numbers for Tesla in Germany.
[SPEAKER_04]: Europe's largest car market.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tesla's Q2 was one of the best quarters in Germany in years.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tesla sales have searched and Q2 up over 420% sure Elon's happy about that.
[SPEAKER_04]: To 16,028 vehicles delivered.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is a 4x year over year.
[SPEAKER_04]: My feelings that must have been some pent-up demand.
[SPEAKER_04]: Remember all that pushback against Tesla there?
[SPEAKER_04]: And I feel like a lot of people are like, okay, I'll never buy a Tesla.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then they're like, I have to buy a Tesla.
[SPEAKER_03]: And no one's telling me I can't anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the U.S. Patent Office has just published a new test that Patton called Coded Glass Assembly for Imaging.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think the idea is to have a special zone of glass in front of the camera that can melt snow and ice with these transparent conductive metallic layers.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and included in this Patton is an anti-reflective layers thing to mitigate light loss through the metallic layers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's a vertical glare shield that can help isolate hot air and reflected sunlight around the camera.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it'll be really interesting to see when this actually comes out and how effective it is at improving conditions around the windshield camera, which is I think what they did this pattern for is that central windshield camera.
[SPEAKER_03]: So do you think that this pattern just applies to the windshield cameras?
[SPEAKER_03]: Let us know your thoughts below in the comments.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, that was some boring news.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon reposted this in the boring company, pre-cast concrete operation at the boring company Dubai.
[SPEAKER_04]: The first phase of the Dubai Loop will utilize 25,000 segments each weighing 4,000 pounds, total tunnel weight 100 million pounds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, how will they hold it up?
[SPEAKER_03]: Good thing it's underground.
[SPEAKER_04]: And an update on the Tesla crash in Katie Texas that happened on June 19th that killed 76-year-old grandmother Martha Vila, even though the New York Times and other mainstream media has tried to spin this as Tesla's fault.
[SPEAKER_04]: It turns out after the Sheriff's Department investigated the driver of the Tesla, 44-year-old Michael Butler, was charged with manslaughter.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was arrested and booked into Harris County Texas jail on July 2nd.
[SPEAKER_03]: His bail was set at $150,000.
[SPEAKER_04]: Spotler's phone reportedly contained prior Google searches, expressing frustration that Tesla's FSD was too timid and not aggressive enough, and look after reading the 4-page charging document, it appears that Michael Butler was delivering DoorDash that night, prior to the crash at 804 PM.
[SPEAKER_04]: The Sheriff's Department found the
[SPEAKER_04]: Butler's phone contained, yes, Google searches in May of this year for things like, quote, Tesla FSD is not aggressive enough for city driving and Tesla FSD is too timid and that the Tesla black box, you know, the data that actually Tesla has showed that Butler pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, reaching a speed of 73 miles an hour with no pressing of the brake pedal for the crash.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, isn't it amazing that a Tesla can crash head on into a brick building at 73 miles an hour, and the driver can walk away largely unscathed?
[SPEAKER_04]: Now obviously there'll be a trial and we may learn more, but as of now it is clear to me at least that this was not a Tesla FSD problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: This accident and this death was caused by the driver.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, don't press the accelerator pedal all the way to the floor, full self-driving will not stop for you because it assumes that you are a responsible person who knows that they for some reason need to accelerate to 73 miles an hour, it cannot make that decision for you because if it did, that would be kind of scary.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really good investigation by the way from the Sheriff's Department of Harris County.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they actually got into other Tesla's with Tesla engineers after the crash to see how the technology works.
[SPEAKER_04]: And they really did a thorough investigation, so instead of some of those police departments were like, Well, the driver said it was an FSD, so they followed up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I also want to just point out that Ashok Aliswami had the data.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was able to put it out on X pretty much the day of the crash as soon as this information came to light.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was like, Hey, the driver had pressed the pedal to 100% and got the car up to 73 miles an hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we knew ahead of time.
[SPEAKER_03]: and it's proof because now that's in the charging documents that the sheriff used.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's not like a shock.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just kind of was like, oh, how could we spin this story?
[SPEAKER_03]: He was like, oh, let me look at the data.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the data I'm going to put it out on X.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's really cool that this company Tesla can put out this information so quickly and accurately.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, time for the Subject Roundup.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah!
[SPEAKER_03]: This cyber truck roundup.
[SPEAKER_04]: And on cyber truck roundup today, a story about Jeffrey's new model, three.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why did you put a story about a model, three, and the cyber truck roundup section of the show?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, because, okay, well, watch this and see if you can figure it out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, is this the robot's exit?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hopefully, sooner or later, wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: So Jeffrey said on Facebook, my wife told me she surprised me with a brand new Tesla Model 3 today When we got to Tesla, the staff was acting like everything was completely normal.
[SPEAKER_04]: They walked me over, congratulated me, kept saying, here's your Model 3.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then they unveiled a cyber truck.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just did their confused while everyone started laughing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Turns out the Tesla staff was in on the surprise the whole time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Best prank ever well played babe, and thanks to the Tesla team for helping pull it off.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I just want to point out everybody, you're all on notice out there, okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to hear outdeads just so hard to shop for.
[SPEAKER_03]: This Christmas, okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: He wants a cyber truck, okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: He wants a cyber truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the way to do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You say, oh, let's go pick up our new model.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wild L. Oh, it's a cyber truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: It'll be happy.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, time for some SpaceX news.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, did you know that Japan has about 120,000 fire hydrant signs installed throughout the country?
[SPEAKER_04]: I did not know that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I do.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, we don't have any signs for fire hydrant.
[SPEAKER_04]: You just have to find them.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're like, sometimes they're painted red, sometimes they're buried under snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes they're painted yellow, and sometimes they're just rust.
[SPEAKER_03]: So now Japan is testing Starlink connected fire hydrant signs as emergency Wi-Fi communication hubs during disaster.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so residents could use them to access emergency information, and stay connected if cellular and terrestrial internet networks go down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool that they have this thing that I've never even seen before, and then they would like like, let's just add Starlink to it exactly.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's up high enough so you can spot it from a distance.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Starlink and Bass Drop Taxis is currently producing 170,000 Starlink kits per week.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, look at the team.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is a huge team making Starlink available for everyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so cool.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Time for Elon's exes of the week.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said AI and robots will be able to do everything resulting in universal high-income work will be optional.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said that AI companies are companies, not labs, it is pompous and silly to call them labs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said, Mondami has built nothing he's a taker, never a maker, kick him out.
[SPEAKER_04]: SMX quoted Elon saying, I'm a citizen of the United States and have only that passport no matter what happens, I will fight for and die in America.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Elon said yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, said New York Times is pushing an narrative because they don't like Elon.
[SPEAKER_04]: Of course, he's talking about the Tesla crash.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then DRW said, have you looked into adding Teslas to the fleet for cost savings within state agencies yet?
[SPEAKER_04]: Would love to see some FHP Teslas now that the Dodge Charger is getting phased out?
[SPEAKER_04]: Would even save the taxpayers money as well?
[SPEAKER_04]: And Ron DeSantis said, yes, we were reviewing possibilities.
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon said, cool, cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon went on, say Tesla's have the highest percentage of American content of any vehicle.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Ron DeSantis said, no doubt, if we save on fuel costs, reduce mishaps through FSD and get lower insurance rates, that could be some real benefits for taxpayers when applied across the fleet.
[SPEAKER_03]: And for my law enforcement slash performance perspective, the Tesla's are very fast and powerful.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd imagine that would stack up favorably to legacy vehicles.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you go, you have a governor of the state, saying let's bring him on the fleet?
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, only took 10 years after we started the show, but I'll take it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon talking about the movie, EDIocracy, said it's basically a documentary of reality.
[SPEAKER_04]: Brondo's got what plans crave.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's got electrolytes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Elon said I read the declaration of independence out loud today with heartfelt conviction.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is a work not just of genius, but also of a purity of soul that resonates to this very day.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then he posted American Flag, American Flag, American Flag, American Flag,
[SPEAKER_03]: Spencer Pratt said it's okay to love America.
[SPEAKER_03]: Elon said not merely okay, anyone who doesn't love America is a traitor and beneath contempt.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those who do not love America, those who are disloyal should be exiled immediately.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then he said the West is the least racist place on Earth by far.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, let's check out some supercharger reviews and see what people have found.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey Zach and Jesse, this is Phillip again and we are back in Belgium in our home country in the city of Namuwir, the capital of the Waluen part of the country.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a nice supercharger close to a hotel, the Ibis style hotel.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it has four new fast superchargers and we are currently charging at 190 kilowatts.
[SPEAKER_02]: On the other side, there are 12 stalls of the previous generation.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can drink or eat something in the hotels.
[SPEAKER_02]: All by all, it's not fantastic to sit here, but I give it eight out of 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much for doing supercharger reviews.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now you know.