Hey everybody, we're up now we're here and today we're talking about the first journalist

reviews of the new Plaid Model S. We've also got an update on the battery capacity. We'll

talk about some details behind that. We've got an update from Dan Ives on Tessel's

stock, an update on Gigaburlin, news on Tessel's referral program, and an interesting tweet

from Elon Musk that has caused a lot of speculation also. Quick look at the stock Tessel today

finishing up about 2% to $616.60. That compared to the NASDAQ also a strong day up 9.10

of a percent.

Alright, let's start off here with the initial reviews of the Plaid Model S. So we have

one from Mototrend, we have one from Automotive Journalist Jason Camisa. Whenever Tessel has

a new vehicle, I always look forward to these. It's kind of a nice time to celebrate what

Tessel has done with that new vehicle. And unlike, you know, what we see business news

wise from CNBC or Reuters, this is automotive news. So they're writing a different style.

There's a lot of superlatives, nice compliments towards Tessel, and sometimes some really

beautiful writing, which again, you tend not to see too much in business news. We'll

look at Mototrend's review here first. So of course, the question that everyone has

on their mind around this vehicle is, can it actually do zero to 60 in under two seconds?

Mototrend's answer, yes, but with some stipulations, so they actually spent kind of the first,

I don't know, half or third of this article, talking about the requirements that they had

for their zero to 60 test run, which I think unfortunately detracts a little bit from

their main takeaways, which of course we'll talk about as well. But they spend a fair

amount of time talking about how Tessel wanted them to run on a specific track with specific

test conditions, one of those conditions being that the drag strip needed to be prepared

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