Hey, Rob Maower here and today we're going to talk a little bit about

everybody Rob Maower here and today we're going to talk a little bit about

Tesla stock and then I've been getting a few questions over the last

couple of days about the performance of Tesla's lithium-iron phosphate batteries in the

standard-range-plus model 3 out of Shanghai. Of course this is a different battery

chemistry for Tesla.

Normally they would use nickel-cobalt aluminum.

So for the lithium-iron phosphate, there have been some reports that the performance is coming

up short in a few areas.

So we're going to take a look at those reports. And we also have a couple

updates out of Germany, one for Giga Berlin, and one for Volkswagen. All right, so Tesla stocks shaking off a poor after-hours trading

session yesterday on the release of New Street

Researches downgrade from buy to hold. We'll talk about that in a second. But for

the day today, Tesla finished up 3.7%, closing at $627.7 cents near the high of the day for the stock, and then compared to the

NASDAQ again, the graphs directionally look pretty similar, but the NASDAQ finished

up about half a percent.

Just after market close, and as I'm recording here

Tesla has actually also announced that they have completed their five billion

dollar at the market capital offering as of December 9th. So basically what we

had talked about yesterday it's likely those shares were coming into market on both the eighth and on the ninth.

The stock price ranged from about $650 per share to $590 per share over that course of time.

So Tesla could have sold them at any price in that range, likely a lot of different prices in that range. I don't think we get the actual price until Tesla's next earnings report, but I'm guessing it'll probably be somewhere around you know 615 $620 on average which

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