Hello and welcome to the Thursday August 2nd 2018 edition of Tesla Daily

unofficial Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob

Maower. Today we are obviously talking about the Q2 earnings report.

Trying out a new format this time last quarter I went kind of question by question.

This time I thought it might be best to kind of rank order my takeaways.

I felt like everything could be grouped this time into five key points.

I have put these in what I deem to be the order of importance, so we'll count down from

five to one throughout this episode.

Quick check of the stock price.

Yesterday during trading hours, Tesla finished up 0.91%

to $300.84, this compared to the NASDAQ up 0.46%.

More importantly, as I record in the pre-market today, Tesla is up 8.3% to $326 per share.

Before we get into the five key points, I just wanted to talk about how overall I thought this was a really good report and earnings

call especially. I thought the analysts up their game in terms of the questions that they were asking. No coincidence with

Elon having called them out last quarter. But I would say that was with a couple of exceptions looking at you Adam Jonas and I also wanted to

mention if you're not someone that normally listens to the earnings calls I

cannot recommend that enough if you find yourself interested in listening to me on

Tesla Daily. I think you're definitely going to find the conference calls to be interesting, even if you're

someone that normally reads a recap or you know gets the summary from someone else like me.

I think actually listening to the call allows you to better understand

some of the nuance behind what Tesla is communicating.

I will say it's a lot more interesting if you listen to the call

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