Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we got some new numbers for Tesla out of China,

while also taking a look at Rivians' earnings always interesting to see their progress.

We've got an update on Tesla Energy and a couple other items as well.

Starting off with the stock, Tesla continuing the hold-up after the Kerr corn resignation,

finishing down 7% of a percent on the day to day, to close at $249.70, while the NASDAQ

was down a little bit more, 8% for a percent on the day.

After yesterday's episode, we did get just a little bit more information from Elon

on Zack stepping down, Holmars saying that sounds like he got a job off for somewhere else

that couldn't say no to you.

Elon replying to that, saying, quote, 13 years is a long tour of duty, Zack will spend

time with friends and family, then do something else.

End quote.

So despite what seemed to be a somewhat sudden announcement, still signs here of things

being amicable.

Alright, let's move into the China numbers.

We've got new, insured vehicle numbers, and then we also have monthly numbers for domestic

and export sales for July.

We'll look at the weekly insured numbers first, so from July 31 to August 6, 12,800

Tesla's were insured in China.

This represents an improvement in the quarter of a quarter pace, now through five weeks

about 44,000 vehicles have been insured in China, which would be an increase from Q4

and Q1, about 28,000 and 34,000 respectively for those quarters, still a bit behind Q2,

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