Hello and welcome to the Friday March 22nd 2019 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we are talking about another internal email from Elon that's leaked out.

The referral program, Making a Return, Enhanced Summon Initial Videos, and some news in the SEC contempt case with Elon Musk.

Tesla stock on the day yesterday finished up 0.15% to 274.2 cents

this compared to the Nasdaq up 1.42%. $1.72.2.

Following the news that we'd heard a couple days ago that Tesla was pushing for 30,000

deliveries over the last 15 days of the quarter.

We now have a similar email from Elon Musk to all internal Tesla employees,

again calling for help with a big push for deliveries before the end of the quarter.

In case you haven't read the email yet, I'll read it here briefly.

Quote, for the last 10 days of the quarter, please consider your primary priority to be helping

with vehicle deliveries.

This applies to everyone.

As challenges go, this is a good one to have as we've built the cars and people have bought the cars so we just need to get the cars to their new owners.

What has made this particularly difficult is that Europe and China are simultaneously experiencing the same massive increase in delivery

volume that North America experienced last year. In some locations, the delivery rate is

over 600% higher than its previous peak. This was further exacerbated by

supplier shortages of EU spec components and a sticker printing error on our part

in China that were only resolved in the past few weeks. North America is also stressed as the final month of this quarter is almost all North America builds.

Moreover, for the first two weeks of March, most cars were sent from our factory in California to the east coast to ensure a

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