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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

FSD V9, More Price Changes, China Sales, Earnings Date, Budget, Boring Co, Neuralink (04.09.21)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

➤ Elon Musk says a massive step change is “almost ready” for Tesla
➤ Tesla raises prices again, the third time in the last month
➤ Model 3 gets an interior update in the US
➤ March sales reported in China
➤ Tesla schedules Q1 earnings for an unusual date
➤ Biden unveils 2022 budget proposal: https://bit.ly/3uD9kfV
➤ The Boring Company invites media to Vegas
➤ Neuralink update

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Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we're out of power here, we've got some big stories to wrap up the week,

0:10.6

we have Elon Musk tweeting about version 9 and the full self-driving beta, we have

0:14.2

price changes yet again from Tesla and some interior updates on the Model 3, then March

0:18.9

sales numbers out of China, so Mac are news, and we'll spend a couple minutes on the

0:22.4

boring company and Neuralink as well.

0:24.9

Quick look at the stock, another really low volume day, about 21 million shares traded

0:28.5

to hands today, Tesla finishing down 1% to $677, that compared to the NASDAQ, a half

0:35.0

a percent.

0:36.0

Alright, first up here we've got a new tweet from Elon Musk on the FSD beta progress,

0:39.8

so this is in response to a whole Mars video, demonstrating a zero intervention trip,

0:44.2

Elon says quote, almost ready with FSD beta version 9.0, step change improvement is massive,

0:50.1

especially for weird corner cases, and bad weather, pure vision, no radar, end quote.

0:56.0

So back in early March, just before the whole download FSD beta saga started, Elon

1:00.9

had said that version 8.3 had about a thousand different changes to it, and that it should

1:04.8

be released in a couple of weeks, a couple days before that he had said that the beta

1:08.2

would expand more widely when version 9 is done, so he had talked about version 9, version

1:13.3

8.3 is a more timeline there, to me the differences are a little bit unclear, but either way there

1:17.3

is a step change here that Tesla is working on internally that we have not yet seen in

1:21.2

the beta that some non-employees have.

1:23.4

So anyway, I mentioned that for timeline purposes, Elon there at the beginning of March

1:26.6

had said hopefully next month for version 9, obviously that is the month we are currently

1:30.1

in now, in April, but as we all know delays here are common and the timelines are really

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