Hello and welcome to the Tuesday January 15th, 2019 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we're talking about a possible partnership between

Volkswagen and Ford, as well as taking a little bit of a look at

updated short interest, continuing our conversation from last week.

Tesla stock on the day today finished up an even 3% to $144.43.

This compared to the Nasdac up 1.71% on the heels of a strong macro

environment today. Not much out there in the way of Tesla specific news today

but we did hear some news from Volkswagen and Ford. They announced today intent to

collaborate on some projects going forward saying that quote,

Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Company today announced the first formal agreements in a broad alliance that

positions the company to boost competitiveness and better serve customers in an era of

rapid change in the industry."

The announcement continued on to say that VW and Ford

quote intend to develop commercial vans and medium-sized pickups for global

markets beginning as early as 2022 and quote the intent there seems to be to drive cost efficiencies through economies of scale.

In addition to that, they continued on to say that quote,

Volkswagen and Ford have signed a memorandum of understanding to investigate collaboration on

autonomous vehicles, mobility services, and electric vehicles and have started to

explore opportunities. Both companies also said they were open to considering

additional vehicle programs in the future,

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