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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Berlin Delay? Steinbach Comments + FSD/Model S Rumors, S&P 500 ESG, Giga Texas, Brakes (05.03.21)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

➤ Unconfirmed report out of Germany suggests six month delay for Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin, state minister comments on report
➤ Tesla stock (TSLA) added to S&P 500 ESG index
➤ Rumors on Tesla’s FSD V9.0 Beta, refresh Model S range, and more
➤ Tesla submits permit details for “Bobcat Project” in Texas
➤ Videos demonstrating superior braking performance of Tesla vehicles circulate Chinese social media
➤ Tesla ships significant amount of Model 3s to Israel
➤ SpaceX update

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Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Rob, now we're here and today we've got quite a few rumors to go through.

0:11.1

We've been hearing most of this weekend about delays for Gigaburlin, we'll talk about

0:14.5

that situation.

0:15.5

We've got a handful of exciting rumors as well.

0:18.2

Another S&P inclusion for Tesla, news on Giga Austin, and a couple other stories to discuss.

0:23.9

Quick look at the stock to start off the week Tesla today finishing down 3.5% I think

0:27.5

amidst some of those rumors about Gigaburlin, closing at $684.90 that compared to the NAS

0:33.4

deck which was down half a percent on the day.

0:36.0

Alright, so capturing the most attention this weekend has been the report from Automobile

0:40.0

Volca in Germany.

0:41.3

They claim to have an exclusive report that Tesla has delayed Gigaburlin, saying quote,

0:46.2

the start of serious production in Tesla's new Gigafactory in Grunhada, near Berlin, has

0:49.9

been delayed by 6 months until the end of January 2022, Tesla Boss Elon Musk officially

0:54.9

gave the team half a year more, reports Automobile Volca, citing company circles.

0:59.2

And quote, so this then got picked up kind of all over the place we had Bloomberg report

1:03.0

on this, market watch report on this, etc.

1:05.5

And this of course follows the news that we had discussed last week that Tesla had adjusted

1:09.0

their approval permit application to include battery cell production.

1:13.0

As we discussed in that episode, that may cause further delays because the permit may need

1:17.1

to then go through the public feedback process again, and we have already seen Tesla express

1:21.7

their dismay with the approval process, how it's been going so far, before even these

1:26.1

adjustments.

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