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our show that kicks off your week with a look at what's going on in the world of technology, startups, and markets.

Welcome to the New Year. I hope that you are well and safe and as happy as can be.

And of course I'm hoping that, you know, 2021 will wind up being a much nicer year than

2020.

But instead of boring you with some long-winded intro

speech about this or that, let's just get into it.

Over the weekend, well over the weekend Tesla reported that it delivered and I quote

499,550 cars in 2020 that is just a hair under its 500,000 car goal

but still honestly a pretty impressive effort in the mind of investors who bid Tesla shares up a couple of points this morning after digesting the news.

Notably, seeing NBC reports, other electric vehicle companies are also seen strong year over

year growth in their auto deliveries including China's Neo and Lee

Auto. Now those two companies are much smaller than Tesla but they still manage to

deliver 44,000 and about 33,000 cars last year, respectively.

Now, Neo's delivery is growing more than 100% in the year, which is very impressive,

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