Hello and welcome to the Thursday May 10th 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Mower. Today we are talking about a survey from AAA on electric vehicles,

as well as new regulation in California on solar.

Tesla stock on Wednesday finished up 1.62% to $306.85, this compared to the Nasdac up 1.0%.

Okay, so looking at this survey from AAA, my understanding is that AAA does a survey every year and one of the questions

that it asks responders is whether or not their next vehicle purchase is likely to be an

electric vehicle. In this year's survey 20% of responders said that their next

vehicle purchase would likely be an EV that's up from 15% for 2017. This survey

was done within the US and AAA says that that would extrapolate to 50 million car

buyers that intend to purchase an EV as their next vehicle.

It's also impressive the year over year growth in that response rate from 15% to 20%.

It shows that the mainstream appeal of electric vehicles

is growing and growing very rapidly.

The only problem with that is that

I'm not sure where 50 million Americans are going to find an electric vehicle to purchase.

For the last few years, light vehicle sales in the United States have been around 17 million annually.

Using the 20% from the survey, that would indicate that 3.5 million of those 17 million

would be seeking an electric vehicle. So in the next few years Tesla should be at 500,000

to a million annually and if we add up all of the other production

between the Leaf, the Bolt, the I-Pase,

whatever BMW comes up with, whatever V-V-W come up with,

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