Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we're talking about some news on Gigaburlin

and the Model Y timeline, Tesla Supercharger Factory in China, more info on Tesla in Israel,

and a couple of other notes.

Quick look at the stock, I didn't see a whole lot driving this today, but Tesla did

finish down at 2.1% to $854.69, that compared to the NASDAQ, which closed just slightly

down today, down 0.02%.

Alright, first up today, we have an update on the timeline for the Model Y out of Gigaburlin.

Tesla has updated their design studio in Germany for the Model Y, and it now reads, quote,

production is expected to start in mid 2021, end quote.

Some sources are reporting on this, saying that that mid edition adds more specificity

than was previously available.

I'm not able to confirm that, I don't know exactly what was listed here immediately

before this change, but I was able to find an archive version of the page from November

18th, from the way back machine, and at that point, it read, quote, the start of production

is planned for the beginning of 2021, end quote.

That's the most recent archive I can find, so I'm not sure if at some point that became

less specific, and just said 2021 in general, rather than the beginning, or what it now says,

of mid, which I do think is important context, because if Tesla had become less specific

and it was just general 2021, there wouldn't be a ton of incentive for them to make

that more specific, unless they had a higher degree of confidence in that timing, versus

if it goes from beginning to mid, that could just be something that's updated as time

goes by.

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