Musk on Cybertruck, Giga Texas, HQ, and Quality, Plus Berlin/China News, FCA Earnings (08.03.20)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
➤ In a part two of a new interview with Automotive News, Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks about the Tesla Cybertruck, Giga Texas, Tesla’s headquarters and next US factory, quality, and future products
➤ Part one recap available here: https://youtu.be/IlNUr2ZFVTE
➤ Link to part two: https://www.autonews.com/weekend-drive-podcast/daily-drive-podcast-august-3-2020-one-one-elon-musk-part-2-third-us-plant
➤ News on Tesla’s Giga Berlin progress
➤ Giga Shanghai July Model 3 production numbers
➤ Quality survey on Shanghai Model 3
➤ Fiat Chrysler reports earnings, discusses regulatory credit purchases
➤ Ford defers government debt payment
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everybody Rob Maower here and today we were talking about part two of Elon Musk's interview on Automotive News's Podcast, The Daily Drive. |
| 0:14.6 | We also have some news on Gigafactories Berlin and Shanghai. |
| 0:17.8 | Fiat Chrysler reported earnings on Friday, so we'll talk a bit about that and some news on Ford as well. First off though I want to start off with |
| 0:24.5 | SpaceX because over the weekend they completed their crew demo two mission with the |
| 0:28.8 | successful splashdown of the dragon capsule and astronauts Bob Benkin and Doug Hurley after they had spent the last 60 days or so at the International Space Station. |
| 0:37.0 | As a reminder, this is the first time in history that a crude orbital space flight has ever been flown by a private company and the first from American |
| 0:44.1 | soil since 2011. |
| 0:46.4 | So huge congratulations to NASA and SpaceX and everybody involved in that mission. |
| 0:50.4 | The next crew launch, Crew 1, is expected to happen in late September. |
| 0:54.4 | Shifting over to Tesla, I want to start off with part two of Elon Musk's interview with Automotive News. |
| 0:59.4 | As a reminder, part one was on Friday, we covered that, and then Part 3 is tomorrow on Tuesday. |
| 1:04.0 | We won't spend quite as much time on Part 2 as we did for Part 1. |
| 1:07.0 | I didn't think there was as much new information here, but as always would recommend, |
| 1:11.0 | listening to the full interview. |
| 1:12.0 | This portion started off by talking about why Texas was chosen for Tesla's next factory |
| 1:16.5 | in the United States. |
| 1:17.9 | They talked about a lot of things we have mentioned. |
| 1:19.8 | Texas being the second biggest market for Tesla vehicles. |
| 1:22.2 | It's good for logistics, shipping to the East |
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