Hey everybody Rob Maower here and today we are primarily talking about new sales information out of China for Tesla for March.

So we'll continue our conversation on Tesla's potential for the year from yesterday's episode.

And we have a couple other topics to get to as well.

Tesla stock on the day today,

we're just before closed right now as I'm recording.

Looks like we'll close around $550.

And as a reminder, the stock markets are closed tomorrow.

So that would be it for the week.

And barring any crazy news, I'll probably work on other stuff tomorrow rather than recording.

All right, so looking at this China news as I said yesterday we should be getting more information for March sales and registrations for Tesla pretty soon. And we now have gotten that. At least partially, we have wholesale information for March coming from the China Passenger Car Association, as reported by a number of different media outlets.

So I say wholesale there.

We know that Tesla is not usually a wholesaler.

They don't use a dealership network.

So to me it's not 100% clear exactly what this information refers to and as you all know I'm a

stickler for precision so if anybody has insight on that I'd love to hear it but we

should also get registration information later this month from the China

automotive information net so we'll look at the registration data as well when that comes out.

But on the wholesale numbers, Bloomberg does give us a little bit of insight here saying,

still it's unclear how many of those vehicles were sold to customers.

The wholesale figures broadly reflect the number of cars leaving the factory."

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So if that is the case, this should give us a pretty good idea of production from Gigafactory Shanghai so let's get into the

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