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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Biden EV Plans, Model Y Update, Potential Part Shortage, TSLA, New Street Research (05.18.21)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

➤ Elon Musk provides updates on “next-gen” Model Y from Giga Berlin and Giga Texas
➤ President Biden speaks about infrastructure and electric vehicles plans to Ford employees, White House releases info on potential credit structure
➤ Electrek reports on vehicle accumulation at Fremont due to part shortage
➤ Renaissance Technologies adds to TSLA position in first quarter
➤ Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research issues updated report on TSLA
➤ Tesla reportedly ships thousands of vehicles to South Korea
➤ Lamborghini announces electric vehicle roadmap

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we're out of malware here and today we've got a bit of an update from

0:10.4

Elon on the next iterations of the Model Y at Gigaburlin and Gigatexus.

0:14.8

We've got a press conference from President Biden at Ford advocating for his infrastructure

0:18.7

plan, some news on Tesla stock from Renaissance technologies and new street research, and

0:23.4

a couple other stories as well.

0:25.3

We'll start off with the stock here quickly, Tesla today finishing up two tenths of

0:28.5

a percent to $577.87, a rare overperformance for the stock as of late, outpacing the

0:34.7

NASDAQ which was down 6 tenths of a percent, but to again just kind of drive the point

0:38.4

home from yesterday's episode where we talked about the influence of rotation, things

0:41.8

like that, arc innovation, ETF today up 1.4%.

0:46.0

Before we get into the updates from Elon, I did just want to quickly talk about Biden's

0:49.7

press conference and updates today on the infrastructure plan.

0:52.6

I think this was probably the most discussed topic that I saw out there for Tesla today,

0:57.1

and kind of for good reason I think the concerns that were heightened today around this infrastructure

1:00.9

plan are threefold.

1:02.4

The first two are in one line of a release statement from the White House on the infrastructure

1:06.2

plan today, sharing a couple of details about how a consumer electric vehicle tax credit

1:11.0

might be structured, it says quote, these incentives will not go towards expensive luxury

1:16.0

models and will also incentivize manufacturers who use good labor practices, end quote.

1:21.5

So the first concern there being, okay, expensive luxury models, what exactly does that mean?

1:25.6

It's unclear at this point in time, and then second there, also using good labor practices.

1:30.6

What exactly does that mean?

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