Hello and welcome to the Thursday January 25th, 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob

Maower. Today we are talking about Model 3 Vins, Model 3 configurations, and a

little bit more on Elon Musk's compensation plan. Tesla stock on Wednesday closed down

1.96% to $345.89, this compared to the

NASDAQ down 0.61%.

Supercharger network update, we are currently at 1,143 supercharging locations with one new station opening up

in Spain.

Before we get into Tesla news today, I just wanted to talk quickly about SpaceX because yesterday

SpaceX had a successful static fire test of the Falcon Heavy.

A static fire test is basically a test of the engines where the rocket is actually held down,

so it doesn't actually launch, but it allows SpaceX to make sure that everything is seemingly functioning properly before they actually go ahead and attempt to launch.

Now that the static fire test was successful, Elon tweeted that they plan to launch in a week or so.

The concept for Falcon Heavy has been around since as early as 2004,

and the initial launch was originally planned for 2013.

So this is a long time coming for SpaceX.

So it's really cool to finally be so close to the actual launch.

And as a reminder, this is the launch that will include Elon's personal Roadster

as the dummy payload for this kind of test launch of Falcon Heavy.

Back to Tesla then where we have some good news as well on a long standing project, which is of course the model three.

Yesterday, another group of current owner reservation

holders for model three were granted access to configure. This group included some people

who had reserved in 2017 again current owners so we are making some progress through the list of

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