Hello and welcome to the Tuesday October 31st, 2017 in addition of Tesla Daily,

unofficial Tesla Podcast. official Tesla podcast.

Happy Halloween everybody.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we're looking a little bit more at the Puerto Rico situation

to try and understand what the cost might be

to convert all of Puerto Rico's power and energy infrastructure

to solar and storage.

Tesla stock on Monday was down 0.25% to $320.8 cents, as compared to the NASDAQ down 0.03%.

Supercharger network update, we are currently at 1,039 supercharging locations.

One station temporarily closed in Belgium taking the count down to 1,035.

However, we added four new stations with two opening up in South Dakota, one in Australia and one in China.

Since we've been in kind of a newslight time period as we head into earnings and we don't really have

that much to catch up on, I wanted to spend again a little bit more time today on Puerto Rico. I've been a little bit captivated by this, but I realized that we never really dug into what the cost of converting Puerto Rico to an entirely solar and storage energy infrastructure might be.

So I wanted to get a better understanding of that and also understand what the feasibility of that sort of project might be and what the return on investment could look like.

You may remember from a couple of weeks ago when I had the

conversation with Mike Brown on the show. We dug in a little bit to how much power

generation might be needed to completely convert Puerto Rico to solar and then sort of how much storage we may need to pair with that to provide a reasonable amount of backup to

Number one power Puerto Rico throughout the evenings and nights when there's no solar being generated.

And number two, provide some sort of backup in the case of natural disasters so that power would

still be flowing if solar was for some reason offline for a given period of time.

So we're going to run through some ballpark math, some pretty high level math.

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