Hey everybody, we're out now, we're here happy Friday, today we've got some catching

up to do after the Walter Isaacson interview yesterday, got some very interesting details

on Tesla's next generation vehicle platform, some vehicle updates, the UAW has commenced

its strike and a few other items as well.

Alright, looking at the stock, not a bad day for Tesla today, down 6.10% closing at $274.39

and NASDAQ down 1.6%, so actually a pretty decent overperformance from Tesla relative

to the broader market, however, interestingly with the UAW strike, Tesla is actually out

performed by Ford, GM and Stellantis today, so not sure exactly what interpretation the

market is taking there with the strike, you would kind of presume that this would be something

that would be negative for them, probably a positive for Tesla, though that's a little

bit up for debate, but nevertheless, those stock seeming now performed today.

Alright, kind of an interesting headline here from Reuters today as we get into the news,

they say Tesla's reinvented car making with quiet breakthrough, so it's a nice headline,

I'll take that, if we get into the article, what this article is about is for Tesla's

next generation vehicle, Tesla's plans to do a single frame, single large frame, unibody

casting for the next generation vehicle, so this is something, you know, this is something

that's been on the road map or sort of the hypothetical road map for Tesla for years,

if we go back all the way to 2019, as we have talked about, as we have talked about

many times on the podcast, Tesla filed a patent application back in 2019 for a multi-directional

unibody casting machine for a vehicle frame, so if we zoom in a bit on this photo, we

can see what Tesla kind of had in mind at that time, obviously Elon has talked about

how he wants vehicles to just be essentially like making a toy car, which would be sort

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