Hey, everybody Rob Maower here and today we are talking about a number of different reports on Tesla's registrations in the United States in the months of April and May.

Tesla stock, despite some of these reports, finished the day up 1% to $991.79 cents, that compared to the

NASDAQ up 0.2%.

All right, so as much as I would love to skip this topic because I think a lot of us

know where this is heading.

Most of the Tesla headlines today are related to a Wall Street journal article published this morning titled,

quote, Tesla registrations plunge in California data tracker says, end quote.

Then leading off the article with quote, registrations of newly purchased

Tesla Inc vehicles plunged in the critical California market over the past two months

according to new data underlining the challenge chief executive

Elon Musk faces to keep investor enthusiasm that has helped propel the

company's share price."

The Wall Street Journal cites data from Dominion Enterprises, which apparently tracks

registrations in 24 states that make up about 65% of the U.S. auto market, and in those 24 states they say that Tesla

registrations declined 33% to 14,151 vehicles during the first two months

of Q2. The media then seemed to go full-sh shocked Pikachu mode and write a whole bunch of

articles about this highlighting Tesla's quote unquote plunging registrations.

So I thought I'd have a little bit of fun with that with the thumbnail today. Apologies for that.

But the point here is that this should not be surprising at all.

People seem to have forgotten that Tesla had their factory shutdown for seven weeks from

late March to early May.

As we know, Tesla is somewhat unique in that their registration or sales

...