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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Musk Replies To NHTSA, China Power Disruptions, EV Credit Becomes Official, VPP, Manchester United (08.16.22)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

➤ Elon Musk replies to NHTSA’s request for FSD Beta access, comments on version 10.69
➤ President Biden sign Inflation Reduction Act into law
➤ Factories suspended in China due to power shortages
➤ Tesla expands Virtual Power Plant pilot in California
➤ Superchargers in Germany are non-compliant with regulations
➤ Tesla scores well in brand survey
➤ Musk granted limited access in Twitter case
➤ Karpathy publishes video on neural networks

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Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we're out of malware here and today we are going to be talking about

0:10.8

a variety of test and news.

0:11.8

We've got kind of a lot of small stories.

0:13.5

We've got Musk replying to Nizzo's request for FSD beta.

0:17.1

We've got some power disruptions causing some factory downtime in China.

0:20.9

We also have the EV tax credit becoming official and quite a few other stories to get through

0:24.8

so we'll hop right into it.

0:26.5

Final on the day to day did finish down 9.10% closing just below $920 per share while

0:31.8

the NASDAQ was down 2.10% so a little bit of an underperformance for Tesla on the day.

0:37.8

Despite the inflation reduction act now finally being passed into law.

0:41.6

As I expected today President Biden did sign that act in the law.

0:45.0

We're not really going to spend much time on that because as we have discussed on many

0:48.6

previous episodes, it is what it has been.

0:53.4

No major changes here at the last second or anything like that.

0:56.1

If you did miss this, we did a full walk through back on the July 28th episode so you

1:00.2

can go and see all the details there to your heart's content but obviously a major change

1:06.4

for the entire electric vehicle industry today still things that we kind of need to sort

1:10.2

through and learn from as we figure out exactly which vehicles are eligible based on their

1:16.2

battery components and battery materials, battery minerals, those are two requirements which

1:23.7

split the credit 50-50 and then of course there are the income requirements and everything

1:27.5

like that.

1:28.5

We'll stop to see in terms of eligibility how this affects Tesla specifically but a major

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