Hello and welcome to the Thursday October 19th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily on Official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Meyer.

Today we're talking about manufacturing at Tesla,

as well as the electrification of Tesla's mobile service fleet.

Tesla stock on Wednesday closed up 1.10% to $359.65 as compared to the NASDAQ up 0.01%.

Supercharger network update we are currently at 1,027 supercharging locations adding one new station in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. and from a major publication, Wired.com. Wired interviewed Tesla's former vice president of production, Greg RICO.

Greg was the VP of production from 2013 to 2016.

Prior to that, he was actually still with Tesla as the vice president of Operations within the Power Train Division from 2011 to 2013.

I'll post the link to the article in the show notes.

I think that it should be probably any listener that's interested in this is going to find

this article interesting, so definitely worth the time reading.

It's a quick read, but very insightful, and I just wanted to talk about some of the information that was in that article today.

The title of this article is Tesla's secret second floor and basically goes into a little bit of detail about the second floor of manufacturing that Tesla has that is not actually open to the public for factory tours like the first floor production is. And this is where Tesla builds

many of its batteries, power electronics, and drive train systems. So many of these

things are things that could under common wisdom be sourced to other manufacturers and then

implemented by Tesla during assembly. But much of the article is centered

around the fact that by not doing that and actually vertically integrating

those pieces into their own manufacturing.

Tesla has a number of different advantages from that strategy.

To quote from Reich how he said,

though it was obvious why we were building the systems at the heart of our

product such as the battery and

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