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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Musk Interviewed by Munro, New Semi Photos, EU Battery Funding, Tesla Israel (02.02.21)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

➤ Elon Musk joins Sandy Munro to discuss Tesla’s engineering, quality control, structural battery, autonomy, and organizational structure (https://youtu.be/YAtLTLiqNwg)
➤ Tesla officially recalls select Model S and Model X vehicles over MCU issue
➤ New Tesla Semi spotted in California
➤ Tesla could be in line for €1B of funding for battery production in Europe
➤ Panasonic comments on battery supply business with Tesla
➤ Tesla opens design studio to Israel
➤ Rumor surfaces about Tesla having an interest in acquiring a stake in China automaker BYD
➤ Tesla reportedly no longer plans on producing a rear-wheel drive Long Range Model Y
➤ Tesla Insurance may finally be expanding outside of California
➤ SpaceX completes high-altitude test flight of Starship SN9
➤ Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we're up now, we're here, and today we have a new Elon Musk interview

0:10.6

to discuss this time with Sam and Row, so some pretty interesting details there.

0:14.6

We also have a new siding of a Tesla semi, what appears to be a new iteration, then we

0:18.7

have some news on batteries and a couple other stories as well.

0:22.1

Quickly looking at the stock Tesla did dip a little bit in pre-market today as news went

0:26.2

out about Tesla officially going forward with the recall for the MCU one on Model S Next

0:31.5

vehicles through early 2018.

0:33.8

We've talked plenty about this over the last couple of weeks, so I don't think we need

0:36.5

to go into too much more detail here, but I did notice in the communication here, Tesla

0:40.4

wrote quote, if you already paid for repairs that address the condition covered by this recall,

0:44.6

you may be eligible for reimbursement, Tesla will share details about reimbursement, and

0:48.6

eligibility by the end of March 2021.

0:51.0

End quote.

0:52.0

I know some people had expressed concerns about that, so nice to see Tesla address that

0:54.9

here, and as for the market's part, I think once the people or algorithms figured out

0:59.8

that this recall was what has been in the news for the last couple of weeks, Tesla recovered

1:03.5

very quickly early this morning.

1:05.3

All right, so let's get into the takeaways from Sanio Monroe's interview of Elon Musk.

1:08.9

I'll put a link to this in the show notes if you haven't watched it, it's only 48 minutes

1:12.0

I would definitely recommend it.

1:13.4

With this being Sanio Monroe, obviously this is a little bit more engineering focused,

1:16.8

and they do go into more detail than what we would normally see in a Musk interview.

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