Musk Talks Autonomy, TSLA, Mergers, Electric Jets + Leaked Email, Cybertruck, LG (12.01.20)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
➤ Elon Musk shares new details on Tesla in a series of interviews as recipient of the Axel Springer Award (https://youtu.be/787CmHGyOmE)
➤ Musk talks autonomy timelines, TSLA’s share price and market cap, merger possibilities, electric jets and more
➤ In a leaked email, Musk pushes for lowering costs and mentions Tesla’s profitability
➤ First Cybertruck deliveries pushed to 2022?
➤ Q4 delivery order deadlines
➤ LG Chem reportedly doubling battery production
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody Rob Mower here and today we have a lot of news to report from Elon Musk. |
| 0:11.6 | He was interviewed for the Axel Springer Award earlier today. He talked |
| 0:15.4 | about Tesla quite a bit, particularly related to autonomy, Tesla's market cap, and the company's |
| 0:20.4 | willingness to partner with other companies. |
| 0:22.5 | So we'll go through the summary on that. |
| 0:24.2 | We also have another leaked Elon Musk email to go through. |
| 0:26.8 | And then some news on the cyber truck, Q4 deliveries, |
| 0:29.6 | and battery supply. |
| 0:31.3 | Quick look at the stock, Tesla fading a little bit from where it opened today but closing the day up 3% |
| 0:36.3 | at $584.76, that compared to the NASDAQ with a pretty strong day up 1.3%. Tesla's volume today quite low, only about 38.7 million shares traded hands. |
| 0:47.0 | So that would be the second lowest volume full day of trading that we have had since the S&P announcement. |
| 0:52.0 | That volume is right at the one month average and |
| 0:54.4 | 59% of the last 12 months average. All right so getting into the Elon Musk interview |
| 0:59.6 | this was earlier today Elon was accepting the Axel Springer Award, the fifth person to win this award, so he sat down for about a 30 minute chat or so with Axel Springer's CEO. |
| 1:09.2 | Overall, I thought it was a really good interview. I'll put the link in the show notes. |
| 1:12.3 | A lot of stuff that we have heard before of course but some interesting new insights as well from Elon I think the biggest headline will probably be Elon's comments around autonomous driving |
| 1:20.4 | Excel Springer CEO ask quote when is autonomous driving, Axel Springer CEO asks, quote, when is autonomous driving really, really going to happen? |
| 1:26.1 | And Elon said, quote, I'm extremely confident of achieving full autonomy and |
| 1:30.3 | releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year." |
| 1:33.4 | End quote. |
| 1:34.4 | So of course we've heard comments like this from Elon in the past and we also have this sort of |
| 1:38.2 | convolution going on between full autonomy and Tesla's full self-driving option, as oftentimes Elon will talk with that as a frame of reference and talk about when that option will be feature complete, which is not necessarily full autonomy. |
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