Hello and welcome to the Tuesday October 15th

2019 edition of Tesla Daily on official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower, a lot to cover today,

including rumors on Madawai Production,

as well as some updates on the UAW strike with GM,

the Porsche-Ticon stuff that we didn't get to yesterday and a couple other things as well.

Tesla stock, again finishing in the green today for the seventh day in a row, up 0.4% to $257.89.

That did trail the macros though. The NASDAQ was up 1.2%. The biggest news

of today are some rumors being reported by Clean Technica regarding Model Y production, they say, quote,

according to an anonymous source

with a proven and reliable track record,

Tesla is about to accelerate its plans

and start production in Q1 2020 at its Fremont factory.

We've also received the same information independently through a reliable second-hand source."

End quote. As a reminder, the most recent statement from Tesla that we have on Model Y production comes from the

Q2 earnings report where they said quote, we remain on track to launch local production

of the Model 3 in China by the end of the year and Model Y in Fremont by fall of 2020."

That being said, we have continued to see Model Y's out and about as we discussed yesterday.

There was actually another new sighting of a midnight silver metallic

model Y in Fremont again today and as we discussed back when we saw the first sighting a week or two ago.

In the case of the model three it was about three months between the first

sighting out in the wild and the actual start of production. And for the model X, it was about

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