Hello and welcome to the Monday, March 12th, 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob mower and we've got a lot to cover today. We have news on model 3,

Supercharger network, as well as self-driving. Tesla stock on Friday closed down 0.59% to

$327.17 as compared to the NASDAQ up 1.79%.

On the week, Tesla was a little more challenging, finishing down 2.14% compared to the

NASDAQ up 4.41%.

We'll start off today with some Model 3 news.

We have a new batch of Vins registered with NHTSA as of Saturday.

Tesla registered 1,385 new Vins, and the highest VIN that has been registered is now 13,823.

This again allows us to calculate Vins registered per day from the last batch of registered Vins.

There were eight days in between batches this time, which came out to 173 Vins per day.

That compares to the last two batches at 45 Vins per day and 2009 vins per day.

So good to see that ratio getting closer to where we were at

at the beginning of February.

On a related note and something that we did speculate on last week

when looking at model three vins, Tesla confirmed to Bloomberg that

Model 3 production was stopped for five days from February 20th to February 24th.

Tesla said, quote, our Model 3 production plan includes periods of planned downtime in both Fremont and

Gigafactory 1. These periods are used to improve automation and systematically

address bottlenecks in order to increase production rates. This is not unusual

and is in fact common in production ramps like this."

This should not be terribly surprising to anybody. Most people when estimating production rates

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