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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Feature Removal, Pricing, Plaid Event Delay, AMD, Castings, SEC Request, Restaurants, Safety Report (06.01.21)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

➤ Tesla removes another part from the Model 3 and Model Y following radar removal; is it too much?
➤ Elon Musk explains Tesla’s price increases
➤ First reports on Tesla Vision-only Autopilot performance
➤ Plaid Model S delivery event postponed
➤ AMD announces supply agreement with Tesla
➤ Elon Musk details benefits of castings
➤ Wall St. Journal uncovers communications between SEC and Tesla
➤ Tesla applies for trademark in restaurant services
➤ UK company shares insightful accident safety data
➤ Ford F-150 Lightning availability will be limited on select version

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Executive producer Jeremy Cooke
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Music by Evan Schaeffer

Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Rob, now we're here, welcome back to Tesla Daily after hopefully a nice

0:11.0

long weekend for many of you, I hope everybody made it through Lumbar Gate yesterday

0:15.0

without a Tesla Daily episode.

0:16.7

If you're not sure what I'm talking about yet with that, we'll of course be discussing

0:19.1

that in this episode.

0:20.1

We also have updates on Tesla's move to pure vision, some first reports on how that's

0:24.4

going.

0:25.4

A minor postponement of the Plaid Model S delivery event, couple of product updates, Tesla's

0:29.0

interest in the restaurant business and a couple other stories as well.

0:32.8

Somehow we are already now in June, Tesla's stock starting off the last month of Q2 down

0:37.7

0.2% pretty quiet on the day, to $623.90 that compared to the NASDAQ also down slightly

0:44.0

one tenth of a percent.

0:45.0

We'll start off here just quickly on the Lumbar support topic, this caused quite a bit

0:48.5

of stir this weekend as somebody on Reddit took delivery of a new Model Y and noticed

0:52.2

that on the passenger seat, the Lumbar support control had been removed, so that's the area

0:56.8

of the seat that would support your lower back, previously you could move that upper down

1:00.2

in or out, and Tesla has decided to remove that from the new Model 3 and Model Y again

1:04.1

for the passenger seat, only driver seat still has that control.

1:07.9

So understandably pretty disappointing for a customer to have to find that, someone

1:11.3

was expressing disappointment on this on Twitter saying, they don't like the direction

1:14.5

Tesla is going, raising prices of vehicles but removing features like Lumbar for the Model

1:18.5

Y.

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