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- 🚀 Biden takes U turn over EVs and Tesla Energy is bigger than you think
🚀 Biden takes U turn over EVs and Tesla Energy is bigger than you think
Plus: Elon comments over 20 million production run rate, Adam Jonas of Morgan Stanley releases new $TSLA note & Xpeng's new plan
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Hey S3XY 🧤 Environmental Protection Agency is considering relaxation over one of its most significant climate change rules — tailpipe emissions limits for cars and trucks — by giving automakers more time to boost sales of electric vehicles; Mexico is ready for Tesla, FSD v 12.2.1 starts rolling out to customers and some other highlights from today’s letter 📨:
Elon’s thought over 20 million units of production at Tesla.
Tesla Energy’s significance and revenue potential.
Adam Jonas new $TSLA note.
Troubles at Fisker and HiPhi.
Let’s take a dive..👇🏻

$TSLA CHART
MARKET CAP 🤑 | 636.80 B |
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AVG VOL(30D) | 108.33 M |
VOLUME | 111.35 M |

TESLA BULLETS
Election year: Biden takes foot off pedal for EV transition and intend not to push too hard as administration initially planned.
Samuel García, Governor of Nuevo León confirmed that government is ready for Tesla to held groundbreaking ceremony as soon as March.
Recent hiring by Tesla in Mexico for various architectural roles also suggests that construction at Giga Mexico could begin very soon.
Down round: New update over Korean government subsidy suggests that now Model Y RWD qualifies for $1460 as against last year’s $3840.
Autonomous driving: Full Self Driving Beta version 12.2.1 is now rolling out to more customers.
Sighting: New Model 3 Performance spotted and it has got sporty bucket seats with white interiors.
That’s hard: In case you were wondering about current stand of Elon Musk over Tesla’s initial annualised 20 million vehicle production run rate plan.
Meaningful: Don’t sleep on energy, once Shanghai Megafactory starts churning out megapacks; total revenue potential from this vertical could be as much as $25 billion annually with far superior margins than auto business.

WHISPERS
New note from Adam Jonas of Morgan Stanley on $TSLA bear/bull sentiment, though point to be noted that his survey includes only 84 respondents, a relatively very small sample to conclude such things.
Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas has released a new $TSLA note:
TSLA Sentiment Check: Can Bearish be Bullish?
Bears outnumber bulls by over 2 to 1: Following our recent Tesla Bull/Bear lunch, we distributed an on-line 3 question survey to our research distribution post close on Feb… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
11:41 PM • Feb 19, 2024
Fisker Ocean, worst car ever he reviewed as per Marques Brownlee; a famous youtuber.
Tesla policy and business development head Rohan Patel hints that FSD could soon launch in Canada.
Looking into this one now. Unless there are legal or other blockers I don’t know about, we’ll get this done.
— Rohan Patel (@rohanspatel)
11:04 PM • Feb 19, 2024
Cathie Wood of ARK Invest on Delaware outcome and Elon’s 25% shareholding demand.
"Ruling on Elon Musk's Tesla pay package was 'un-American'. It's anti-investor and an insult to the board of directors of Tesla."
— Cathie Wood 📹 @YahooFinance
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge)
2:23 PM • Feb 19, 2024
POV on why self driving cars will be here sooner than expected.
It is a very long read, click here if you would like to read summary only.
Why self driving cars will be everywhere quicker than most expect.
I’ve had a theory about self-driving technology ever since I experienced Tesla’s self-driving software suite (FSD), especially starting with v11. Let me walk you through how I think about this by first giving… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Farzad (@farzyness)
8:22 PM • Feb 19, 2024

INDUSTRY FILES
Flooding EVs: In an internal letter to employees, Xpeng CEO details plan to launch more than 30 newer/updated models and more investment in research and development.
One down: Chinese EV maker Human Horizons HiPhi brand is halting production for next six months for now, maybe indefinitely in future.
More price cuts: Led by BYD, Hyundai and Neta also slashes prices of their popular models.
New launch: Volkswagen unveiled an all new electric ID.7 Tourer for europe with top range of upto 685 km.
Buyback: BYD announces share buyback and it plans newer models for upmarket segment to strengthen its portfolio.
Supercar: BYD to launch its electric supercar “Yangwang” on Feb 25, it does 0-60 miles in under 2 seconds!
Survival: Fisker signs more dealers in order to offline push while shifting away from only direct sales and received potential delisting notice from NYSE for being penny stock!

QUIZ TIME

Tesla Fremont
Tesla purchased Fremont factory (it’s fascinating tale here) for just $42 Million USD in year 2010 from which automotive company? 🧐
Ford
Stellantis
General Motors
New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI)
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BEFORE YOU GO
🕵🏻♂️ This day in history: The musician and founding member of famous rock band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain was born in year 1967, he died at age 27. Recently his autopsy report surfaced online for first time and there is this very weird “The 27 club”.
🔭 Zoomin: Move over James Webb, this new telescope is in works to find alien life.
🗡️ Ouch: Don’t step over stingray. They have a blade like tail. I repeat, don’t keep your foot over stingray.
🎇 Boom: This is world’s largest single bomb firework. Japanese are something.
🤔 That’s thoughtful: May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

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