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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Top Employer Ranking, Daimler Drama, BMW iX, California Registrations (11.12.20)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

➤ Tesla ranks as the most attractive employer to United States engineering students
➤ Comparing Tesla’s rankings to other automakers and a look at worldwide results
➤ Daimler/Mercedes-Benz plant manager reportedly leaves for Tesla causing pushback from Daimler workforce
➤ BMW shares first look and specs of BMW iX, an all-electric SUV
➤ Comparing BMW iX to Tesla’s Model Y
➤ California reports Q3 vehicles registrations with Model Y taking top slot for the luxury compact SUV category
➤ Rivian reveals more details ahead of configurator launch on November 16th

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Rob Maower here and today we're talking a little bit about Tesla's ability to attract talent.

0:12.0

We have a related story on that from Berlin,

0:14.6

model Y sales in California, and some news from BMW and Rivian.

0:18.8

All right, so we'll start off with Talent and this isn't the first time we've talked about a story like

0:22.4

this, but Universum is out with their most talent and this isn't the first time we've talked about a story like this but

0:22.9

Universum is out with their most attractive employers in the United States

0:27.1

based on surveying over 235,000 students that's worldwide about which

0:31.9

companies they would like to eventually work for.

0:34.6

As Tesla has done in a years past, they've scored incredibly well in the 2020 results, and

0:38.7

they have actually taken over the first spot in terms of most attractive employers for engineering students in the United States,

0:45.4

interestingly enough taking that first spot away from SpaceX. So Tesla has risen to

0:49.6

number one, SpaceX has only fallen back to number two.

0:52.4

Universum divides the responses into five. 1, SpaceX has only fallen back to number 2.

0:52.8

Universum divides the responses into five areas of study,

0:56.2

business, engineering, computer science, natural sciences,

0:59.7

and then humanities slash liberal Arts slash Education.

1:03.2

Tesla finished in the top 25 for each of these categories and they actually moved up in all but

1:07.9

one from the 2019 rankings.

1:10.4

So for business in 2019, Tesla ranked 12th. For for 2020 they've jumped up to 8th there

1:15.2

engineering as we talked about jumped up one spot from second to first computer

1:19.1

science one spot from six to fifth natural sciences one spot from 16 to 15th, and then humanities, liberal arts and education

1:26.3

stayed at 23. Just for fun if we want to take a look here at SpaceX 2, they also improved

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