Hello and welcome to the Thursday October 12th

2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we're talking about Model 3 production,

Tesla Short Interests, and a couple of bits of news on autonomous driving.

Tesla Stock on Wednesday closed down 0.28% to $3.54 and 60 cents this compared to the

NASDAQ up 0.25% Supercharger network update we are at 1,018

supercharging locations still. In continuation from the story that we saw on Tuesday,

kind of about Model 3 production

and how the Wall Street Journal and other publications

had been accusing Tesla of building things by hand.

We have another response from Elon basically showing more parts of the

Model 3 production happening. Late last night, Elon posted a video on Instagram showing the

stamping machine for the model 3 body panels and it appears to be running at a pretty good speed.

Each panel in the video is being stamped at about 3.7 seconds per panel.

If this was operating all day at this rate, that would give you about 23,000 panels per day. So that would be the maximum output, however, of course, not all the body panels are the same,

so at some point the stamp needs to be changed out to stamp a different body panel.

I'm also not sure if Tesla operates any of their production processes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

So just for the sake of some of the ballpark math that we're going to do here, I'm going to assume that they just have 2 8 hour shifts a day day so 16 hours a day and then again if we

just assume ballpark that half of that time is spent adjusting the machine to

stamp different panels or things like that maybe one day it stamps for 16 hours then the next day it is down

for the entire day swapping panels or things like that. So if we just assume 50%

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