Hey everybody, Rob Mauer here, and today we've got some news on Gigaburlin, some interesting

marketing happening in China, news on the Tesla semi, Elon tweeting about suppliers,

some macro news with Tesla actually being mentioned by the government that's a rarity,

and a couple other things as well.

It was another really low volume day for Tesla stock today about 23 million shares trading

hands, depending on how after hours volume looks, this might be the lowest volume day since

mid-February.

Nevertheless, Tesla did finish up 1.9% today, to $683.80, that compared to the NASDAQ,

up 1%.

Alright, first up today we've got news on Gigaburlin, I think Bloomberg was the first

to report on this, but some other outlets have as well.

Tesla has reportedly sent a letter to Germany complaining about the lengthy approval process

for the Berlin factory, noting that Tesla has quote, learned firsthand that obstacles in

Germany's approval processes are slowing down the necessary industrial transformation.

This discourages necessary investments in clean energy projects and infrastructure,

and makes it practically impossible for Germany to achieve its climate goals.

End quote.

So Tesla clearly a little bit frustrated here, I'm sure this has been a stark contrast

to their experience in Shanghai, probably not entirely unexpectedly, but they did say

it's particularly irritating, according to Bloomberg, that they don't even have a timeline

yet for final approval.

Bloomberg did receive a comment back on this report from a spokeswoman for Brandenburg's

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