Apple Buying Megapacks, Leaked Email on Deliveries, Regulatory Credit $ From VW (04.01.21)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
➤ Apple reportedly placed significant order for Megapacks with Tesla for energy storage project
➤ Possible leaked email from Tesla may give insight on quarterly deliveries
➤ Volkswagen reportedly reached agreement with Tesla to purchase regulatory credits in China
➤ Voltswagen prank continues to draw media criticism
➤ California has big energy storage plans in 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody Rob, now we're here and today we're talking about a big purchase of Tesla |
| 0:11.0 | Energy products by Apple. |
| 0:12.2 | We also have a leaked email on Tesla's deliveries for Q1, some news on Volkswagen purchasing |
| 0:16.8 | credits from Tesla in China, and a couple other stories as well. |
| 0:20.7 | Tesla Stocks started off strong today reaching as high as $692 per share this morning, but |
| 0:25.3 | fell throughout the day finishing down 9.10% to $661.75. |
| 0:30.9 | That compared to a strong day for the NASDAQ finishing up 1.8%, and it traded relatively |
| 0:35.0 | flat around that level throughout the day. |
| 0:37.3 | As a reminder the NASDAQ is closed tomorrow all day for good Friday, as for my schedule, |
| 0:41.8 | I'm going to do my next episode whenever deliveries come out, so maybe tomorrow, maybe |
| 0:45.7 | on Saturday. |
| 0:46.7 | Alright, we'll start off with the Apple news here, so yesterday as a part of an update |
| 0:50.0 | on their clean energy goals, Apple announced that, quote, Apple is constructing one of the |
| 0:54.2 | largest battery projects in the country, California flats, an industry leading grid scale energy |
| 0:58.8 | storage project capable of storing 240 MW of energy enough to power over 7000 homes for |
| 1:05.0 | one day. |
| 1:06.0 | This project supports the company's 130 MW solar farm that provides all of its renewable |
| 1:10.4 | energy in California by storing excess energy generated during the day and deploying it when |
| 1:15.4 | it is most needed. |
| 1:16.4 | End quote. |
| 1:17.4 | What Apple didn't share as a part of that update was who would be providing that energy |
| 1:20.5 | storage, and as the verge, I believe has first reported, turns out that that is going |
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