Hello and welcome to the Thursday December 14th

2017 edition of Tesla Daily on Official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Mower.

Today we're talking about some good news from a model 3 supplier,

as well as the US Federal EV tax credit.

Tesla stock on Wednesday closed down 0.59% to $3.3

This compared to the NASDAQ down 0.20%.

Supercharger network update,

we are currently at 1,080 supercharging locations

with new stations opening up in Massachusetts and Maryland,

as well as Australia and Switzerland.

We have news today on Model 3 production from a Model 3 supplier, Hoda Industrial Manufacturing Company.

You may remember the name Hoda because back in October,

Hoda announced that Tesla actually reduced their weekly production targets

for Hoda from 5,000 sets of parts per week to 3,000 sets of parts per week.

This was heavily discussed at the time.

You may remember that Tesla was required to give Hoda a certain number of weeks of warning

to reduce those production targets.

So this was back in October and Tesla was reducing production for December at that point in time.

So adjusting production targets for about six to eight weeks out most likely.

Hoda is now in the news again for very opposite reasons this time.

Hoda's chairman has announced that Tesla has actually increased their production targets back up to 5,000 sets of parts per week.

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