News on Tesla Energy, NTSB Comments, Waymo, Semiconductors, Other EVs (09.21.21)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

➤ News on Tesla Energy: Virtual Power Plant, Megapack, and Solar Roof
➤ Head of NTSB advocates for more restriction on Tesla’s Autopilot
➤ Model S deliveries expand regionally
➤ Model Y enters new market
➤ Waymo’s Head of Behavior Prediction to present on autonomy
➤ GM President comments on chip shortages
➤ Ford comments come back around on Mustang Mach-E
➤ Mercedes announces US pricing for EQS
➤ Audi announces details for all-electric Q4 e-ton

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Music by Evan Schaeffer

Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we're out of the hour here and today it's been a little bit quieter of
0:10.8	a day for Tesla, but we do actually still have quite a few news stories to go through,
0:14.3	particularly those related to Tesla Energy.
0:16.8	But then we also have comments from the National Traffic Safety Board that we did not get
0:20.9	to yesterday.
0:21.9	Then we've got some news on the Model Y and quite a few other stories in the automotive
0:25.9	industry.
0:26.9	A little bit better day for the markets overall, today the NASDAQ finished up to 10% of a
0:30.7	percent.
0:31.7	Tesla outperforming finishing up 1.25% to $739.38 following the down day on Monday.
0:38.6	As for tomorrow, just something to keep an eye out for from a macro level, Federal Reserve
0:42.2	is having their two day meeting right now.
0:44.5	Their comments on that meeting will happen tomorrow shortly before market closed, a couple
0:48.4	hours before market closed.
0:50.1	Alright, so we've got a handful of Tesla Energy stories here to start out with.
0:54.2	Just on Tesla's Virtual Power Plant project in South Australia, Tesla has been working
0:59.0	on this for a couple of years now.
1:00.8	If you're not familiar, it's a network of 50,000 homes with power walls that are virtually
1:04.6	connected together, then centrally controlled to help optimize distribution of energy.
1:09.7	As we talked about when we went through Tesla's impact report, one of the underappreciated
1:13.4	aspects of Tesla is their ability to utilize software to increase the utility of their
1:18.4	hardware, and that's exactly what Tesla is doing with Virtual Power Plants or VBPs.
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