Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, October 2nd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Tesla continues to smash records.

Facebook has announced big changes for groups and folks are concerned it will smash the platform

further.

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the weekend long read suggestions.

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Smash.

The hits truly keep on coming over at Tesla. The company announced this morning it has

delivered 139,300 vehicles in the third quarter which absolutely smashes its previous delivery record for a

quarter of a hundred and twelve thousand cars quoting the verge. This was the third

consecutive quarter of better than expected delivery numbers from

Tesla. The company delivered 88,400 vehicles in Q1 of 2020 down from the fourth

quarter of 2019 when Tesla shipped around 112,000 vehicles.

And it sent out 90,650 vehicles in Q2,

despite its Fremont, California factory

being partially shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Tesla said it delivered 124,100 of its Model 3 and Y vehicles and 15,200 of its

Model S and X vehicles. Tesla has said it expects to deliver 500,000 vehicles in 2020, or a 36% increase over 2019.

But so far the company has only sent out

318,350 cars to customers, meaning it would need a blowout fourth quarter of 181,650 deliveries to meet

that goal, end quote. But hey, the way things have been going over there, you might not put it

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