Hello and welcome to the Monday September 2nd 2019 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower, happy Labor Day everybody.

I hope everyone has had an amazing weekend.

No updates on the stock as the markets have been closed for the holiday,

but futures for the broader market have traded down as some tariffs have gone into effect

as scheduled over the weekend. Today we have a handful of Tesla stories and then

a couple from competitors as well. Before we get into those, just a quick update on the China Purchase Tax Exemption

that we talked about last week.

At the time, it looked like that exemption was just for Tesla, but from some further

reporting, it seems as though that exemption also applies to other imported and of course

domestically produced electric vehicles from other automakers as well. Still very good news and

most beneficial to Tesla I think but does not actually appear

to be Tesla specific. Staying international but moving on from China and into

Africa specifically Zimbabwe. Bloomberg over the weekend reported on

Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications provider

Econonet Wireless LTD purchasing and installing a significant number of power walls to assist

with power stability for the telecom network.

Mobile payments are extremely important and heavily utilized in Zimbabwe.

So EconoNet has a mobile money system called Econo Cash,

which in a country of 14 million has almost 7 million active

users. Making sure there is power available for the network to facilitate those transactions

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