Hey everybody Rob mower here and today we are talking about some rumors on

Tesla's battery plans as well as a follow-up from Alameda County in a question and

answer release that they published yesterday and some news on the long-range model 3 for China.

Tesla stock and the overall markets rallied towards closed today with Tesla finishing up 1.6%, 803.33 cents and the

Nasdaq closing up 0.9%.

All right, first thing today, just some quick news to round out the conversation on Alameda County and Tesla and their production

status in Fremont. Yesterday we had discussed how they had come to an agreement, but that release was pretty

sparse on details. Well today we did get a little bit more detail from a Q and a release from the

Alameda County Public Health Department. Quite a few of these questions

addressed Tesla with the first one bringing up a point that we were

wondering about. What had Tesla changed from their original safety guidelines that

Alameda County now feels comfortable with them augmenting their minimum basic operations.

The first part of the answer is kind of humorous, well not really humorous I would say, but kind of ridiculous.

It's quote, the plan Tesla published over the weekend is their

playbook for all their sites. The guidance issue by the state for manufacturing operations

includes development of a site specific plan."

So they say then on Monday that was when they received the site specific plan, and then in terms

of recommendations or improvements that Tesla needed to make to that plan. With this part being much more understandable,

they say that in Tesla's plan, they had employee health screening happening at arrival of the plant location.

They recommended or requested that Tesla do that screening

before people board shuttle transport.

They also say they quote,

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