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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Major 4680 Milestone, Tesla Wraps, EV Awareness, China, Wiferion, UAW (10.11.23)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

➤ Tesla announces major 4680 production milestone
➤ PPI higher than expected
➤ Tesla introduces vehicle wraps
➤ Model 3 PPF video: https://youtu.be/V_KdXVBn2O8
➤ Survey shows low EV awareness
➤ China sales details
➤ Model 3s at port
➤ V4 Supercharger opens in Asia
➤ Tesla sells small business unit
➤ Q3 Q&A opens
➤ Idra expands customer base for gigapresses
➤ UAW suddenly extends Ford strike

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we're up and we're here and today we've got a major 4680 battery production

0:11.5

update.

0:12.5

We've also got a new product introduced by Tesla wraps for vehicles, take a look at those.

0:17.4

We've got a business unit sale and a few other items as well.

0:21.4

Looking at the stock, Tesla down about a quarter percent today, closing at $262.99, the NASDAQ

0:26.8

pretty nice day, up seven tenths of a percent and that was despite the the producer price index

0:32.6

or PPI report coming in a little bit higher than expectations this morning.

0:36.8

So from Bloomberg, we can see the recap here.

0:39.5

The producer price index headline number was up half a percent month of a month versus

0:43.4

expectations of about three tenths of a percent and core, so excluding food and energy,

0:48.7

that was up three tenths of a percent versus expectations of about two tenths of a percent.

0:52.7

So with being a little bit higher normally, you'd expect maybe a little bit of a subdued

0:56.0

reaction with the market as that could lead to higher interest rates later on if PPI stays

1:00.6

a little bit higher.

1:01.8

Obviously, these aren't really too far outside of the range, but still would like to see them

1:06.8

probably coming down a little bit further.

1:08.8

Anyway, if we look at the CME Group's Fedwatch tool, we can see that actually over the last

1:14.2

day and over the last week, certainly expectations for a continuation of paused interest rates

1:19.7

at the next FOMC meeting in November have actually increased.

1:23.2

So despite the higher PPI results, still more market expectations for rates to stay the

1:30.0

same.

1:31.0

So what seems to be going on here is just based on some recent Fed commentary, as we can

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