Hello and welcome to the Monday September 23rd 2019 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob Mower. Today we're talking

a little bit about sell production, some news from Norway, as well as an update on the United

Auto Workers Strike against GM. Tesla stock on the day today was up 0.25% to $241.23.

that compared to the NASDAQ down 0.06%.

Starting off today with a little bit of news on battery cell production, both for

Tesla and for Volkswagen. On the Tesla side, over the weekend there have been some reports of

LG Chem starting production of battery cells for Tesla.

These reports all originate from a South Korean tech news website called The Aleck.

South Korea, of course, being where LG is headquartered.

The Aleck reports, quote,

LG Chem has begun to mass produce batteries for Tesla's model three electric vehicles

from its Nanjing plant in China, according to industry sources, September 18th, end quote.

Presumably these battery cells would be used for Gigafactory Shanghai.

Nanjing is pretty close to Shanghai less than 200 miles away.

It seems pretty unlikely that those cells would be then for export. So potentially another good sign here

for the eminent production from Gigafactory Shanghai. If it truly were mass production though at this point,

perhaps some of that could be for export and some then dedicated for Gigafactory Shanghai.

Aside from the start of production, the Aleck also reported a couple other details that I think

should be taken with some degree of skepticism.

The first, which should probably just be outright

dismissed but should give some idea of why the rest is maybe not that accurate. The article

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