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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

12.04.17 – Federal EV Tax Credit, Model 3 Deliveries & New Highest VIN

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

– Model 3 VIN 1910 has been spotted, InsideEVs estimates November deliveries
– Redditor takes delivery of a Model 3
– Update on United States federal EV tax credit

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Monday December 4th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast.

0:13.0

My name is Rob Mower. Today we're talking mostly about Model 3 and the Federal EV Tax Credit.

0:17.0

I apologize for the poorer audio quality today. I'm traveling for work, so I'm just recording on my laptop microphone.

0:22.0

But tomorrow and Wednesday, I have interviews. traveling for work so I'm just recording on my laptop microphone.

0:23.0

But tomorrow and Wednesday I have interviews so the audio quality will be normal and I'll be

0:26.7

back in Milwaukee on Thursday.

0:28.7

Tesla stock last week on Friday closed down 0.75% to $306.53

0:34.6

as compared to the NASDAQ down 0.38%.

0:38.0

On the week, Tesla closed down 1.2%

0:40.5

compared to the NASDAQ down 0.6%.

0:43.0

Supercharger network update, we are currently at 1,66 supercharging locations with three new stations opening up,

0:49.0

one added in South Korea, one in Canada, and one in Massachusetts.

0:53.2

Over the weekend we had a new highest model 3 VIN siding.

0:56.1

VIN number 1,910 has been spotted.

0:59.7

This was a pretty big jump, I think previously the highest VIN we had seen was 1131, but again normal caveats with fins, it doesn't necessarily imply that number of deliveries.

1:08.0

That being said, I do think that the VIN sightings have increased a little bit recently.

1:12.0

Of course, as deliveries ramp ramp up this should be expected so this isn't necessarily super bullish or anything like that

1:17.8

But it does provide a little bit of supporting evidence for Tesla being on track with their production targets.

1:23.6

Another piece of supporting evidence for that is that Reddit user Dirty Fries,

1:27.0

who is fairly prominent on the Tesla subreddit,

1:29.2

actually took delivery of his model 3 yesterday.

1:32.3

Though he is not an employee, he did have a connection with an employee.

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