Hello and welcome to the Thursday August 31st 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower. We got quite a bit of news today to cover including updates from

Elon as well as a model S hitting 300,000 miles.

Tesla closed yesterday at $353.18 up 1.68 compared to the NASDAQ up 1.05 percent.

Supercharger network update, we are still at 948 supercharging locations.

Some exciting news out today from Test Loop.

Test Loop is a transportation company that offers rides exclusively in Tesla's primarily

focusing on city to city destinations in the California area.

So Testloop has a lot of heavily utilized Tesla's and today they reported that they have reached

300,000 miles with one of their model S's.

So this is a pretty exciting milestone. They also I think made bigger headlines because they estimated that they were saving 60 to 75,000 dollars with a model S for this use case versus what they would have had to spend with an internal

combustion engine vehicle.

The test loop vehicles charge primarily at supercharging stations and they are still

under free supercharging.

So a lot of that savings is from energy usage.

If they had to charge and pay normal electricity rates,

this would have saved a lot less,

but still significant. I would put it probably in the 30 to 40,000

range versus a comparable internal combustion engine vehicle. So the big question that most people

have when they see that a monolith has reached this range and to my knowledge this is the farthest that any monoliths has traveled

The big question that people have is what does the battery degradation look like? I didn't see any reports on the

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