Hello and welcome to the Friday January 19th

2018 on official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we're talking about Tesla Wheels

and Model 3 making its way to more stores

throughout the United States.

Tesla stock on Thursday closed down 1%

compared to the Nasdaq up 1 tenth of a percent.

Supercharger network update, we are currently still at 1,139 supercharging locations.

In the news today we have a couple updates on various Tesla wheel options, first of which being

that the model S now has a new premium 21 inch wheel called the Sonic Carbon Twin Turbine

Wheel. These replaced the previously offered 21 inch slipstream wheels and they are the same price at $4,500.

They look pretty similar to the old slipstream wheels except now the design is inclusive of a lug nut cover,

which I assume optimizes the aeroe

efficiency of these wheels and is a little bit more

reminiscent of the premium sport wheels for the model three.

On the topic of model three wheels we have some news there as well.

On one of the Tesla Facebook groups

there was a discussion happening in one of the commenters actually happened to be

the head of aerodynamics at Tesla previously for the model X, Model S, and Model 3.

He shared some insight into the design of the Ara Wheels for Model 3, said, quote,

with a cap approach, they're the lightest wheel design Tesla has ever done, and with very low rotational

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