11.16.17 – VW Invests in EVs in China, Rolling Stone Interviews Elon Musk, Supercharging Cafe/Lounge, Model 3 Updates
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
– Volkswagen announces $12B investment in China for electric vehicles (Link)
– Rolling Stone interviews Elon Musk (Link)
– New supercharging location opens with a Tesla cafe & lounge
– Model 3 VIN sightings
– The Tesla Show drives a Model 3
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thursday November 16th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Rob Maower. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we've got a lot of news to cover. |
| 0:15.0 | We're talking about news from Volkswagen, |
| 0:17.0 | news on Elon Musk, Supercharging, Model 3, |
| 0:19.0 | and of course, today is the Tesla Semi-Unvailing. |
| 0:22.0 | On Wednesday, Tesla Stock closed up 0.84% to $311.30, |
| 0:27.0 | this compared to the Nasdac, which was flat. |
| 0:29.0 | Supercharger network update, we added two new locations, bringing the total up to 1,245, supercharging locations. |
| 0:35.7 | We have another 40-stall supercharging location opening up in Baker, California, and then another |
| 0:40.2 | location in Ireland. |
| 0:42.0 | Quick side note, if anybody from Ireland is listening. |
| 0:44.7 | I have a random question for you. |
| 0:46.4 | If you could send me an email at Tesla daily podcast at gmail.com, |
| 0:50.1 | that would be fantastic. |
| 0:51.6 | Thank you. Okay, so in the news today we have an update from |
| 0:55.0 | VW on their electric vehicle plans, specifically within China. |
| 1:00.0 | Bloomberg released a report titled VW teams with Chinese partners in 12 billion dollar electric car push. |
| 1:05.0 | Now on the face of it, this sounds like a massive investment and this is a big investment. |
| 1:09.0 | However, what's important to note is that this investment is over a period of time so this would be through |
| 1:13.6 | 2025 that VW is planning to make this 12 billion dollar investment. That equates to about |
| 1:19.6 | one and a half billion dollars per year which is significant but as we know lovingly with |
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