01.22.18 – Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive VINs, Dream Cars, Polestar
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
– Tesla registers the first dual motor all-wheel drive VINs with NHTSA
– Tesla Model S ranks first amongst millennials’ dream cars
– Volvo’s sub-brand, Polestar, gives production guidance
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Monday January 22nd 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial |
| 0:11.6 | Tesla podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | My name is Rob Mower. |
| 0:13.6 | Today we are talking about the model three all-wheel drive |
| 0:15.7 | configuration, as well as model S and model X |
| 0:18.3 | being recognized in a survey of Dream Cars. |
| 0:21.0 | Tesla stock on Friday closed up 1.58% to $350.2 as compared to the NASDAQ up 0.55%. |
| 0:28.8 | On the week, Tesla was up 3.2% compared to the NASDAQ up 0.3%. |
| 0:33.2 | Supercharger network update, we are currently at 1,142 supercharging locations |
| 0:37.7 | with new stations opening up in Washington, Michigan, and Ontario. |
| 0:41.6 | On Saturday, Tesla registered 19 new Vins with NHTSA for Model 3, |
| 0:45.0 | and these Vins were actually dual motor all-wheel drive Vins. |
| 0:49.0 | You can tell this because the 8th digit in the VIN |
| 0:52.0 | is a B rather than an A. A signifies single motor and B signifies dual motor all-wheel drive. |
| 0:59.0 | The timing of this registration also coincides with Tesla updating their configuration |
| 1:03.4 | process for the model three. The configurator is just a little bit different now |
| 1:07.0 | than it was before and it looks like it gives a little bit more flexibility for |
| 1:09.9 | Tesla to add options into there such as a different interior type or the dual motor all-wheel drive as well. |
| 1:16.0 | That design studio update also included an image of the dual motor power train in the back end code. |
| 1:21.0 | For a while now, Tesla has also been communicating spring 2018 as the date for at |
| 1:26.2 | least the beginning of configuration opening up for dual motor all-wheel drive in model 3 configuration |
| 1:31.6 | invitation emails. |
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