TSLAQ Podcast

Quick update episode

Advanced Summon Release

Unredacted Solar City Lawsuit

Delivery Estimates

Leaked Delivery Chance Email

Year-over-Year Revenue & Gaming it with Advanced Summon

Discussion of recent events, and their impacts on Tesla's share price

China Pumps

Walmart Suit

Solar City Suit

Unsworth Suit

Solar City Bailout Suit

Model S Plaid Drivetrain, OMG (Elon's so clever with his SpaceBalls joke)

Mention of Rivian's 100,000 vehicle order from Amazon

Walmart Lawsuit (covered only briefly)

Silly VW "Buyout Rumor"

Tesla Insurance Release

Bethany McLean's excellent "He's FOS" Vanity Fair piece

Taycan Triggering

NTSB Report

August Deliveries Estimate

Brief Review of recent Interview Episodes (40, 41, & 43)

Discussion of $TSLAQ-sourced short idea list (for >$1/month Patrons)

Verbal discussion of the standardization of the ".D" cashtag nomenclature for unlikely-to-go-bankrupt short ideas

Talk about FSD and Insurability of Teslas with so-called Full Self-Driving

Turnover in the NHTSA

New Video (multiple angles) of a Tesla parallel parking attempt becoming legitimately scary to consider (https://twitter.com/KawasakiKR11/status/1161456566412939264?s=20)

Tinfoil portions of the episode inspired by 8/13/2019 NYT article regarding an 8/16/2018 visit to 9 East 71st St in Manhattan, NYC

A discussion of who Karl Hansen is, discussing his military background, medical ombudsman role, and now de facto Tesla Whistleblower ombudsman role in Reno, Nevada

GoFundMe Campaign Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Karl-Hansen---Tesla-Whistleblower---Support-Fund

Link to Karl's Sarbanes Oxley suit filing:

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tesla-suit.pdf

"Whistleblower Hell" Article from Matthew Klippenstein at TheDrive:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/29089/tesla-enters-whistleblower-hell

The Jacob's Letter, regarding the Uber security team, referenced by Karl:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4330131/Waymo-Uber-Jacobs-Letter.pdf

Articles from Engadget and Wired about the Jacobs letter:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/15/jacobs-letter-unsealed-accuses-uber-of-spying-hacking/

https://www.wired.com/story/uber-waymo-jacobs-letter/

For the Academic Paper document, I have attached that to the following Post on my Patreon Page:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-43-karl-29076985

 

One year after Elon's infamous Tweet

Quick mention of Plainsite's FOIA goldmine (NHTSA)

Falcon Heavy Launch Distraction

No boring/boneheaded questions, let's go to YouTube

5,000 Model 3's per week

Martin Tripp

Thai Soccer Team Cave Rescue

Montana Doxxing

Funding Secured

Former Tesla engineer Christina Balan discusses her Tesla journey

From being a key part of the Model S design team, to caring for Tesla so much to try to report directly to Elon

To working on a Management-sanctioned, touch-operated electrochomic visor special project, which Doug Field seemed quite excited about

To being defamed by Tesla in a response note (apparently written by Dave Arnold) to a Huffington Post article

Nearly 100 minutes with Christina Balan

Interview with Federally-recognized Whistleblower Melayna Lokosky

Melayna's Background and the Genesis of "Killing My Career"

Talk of Whistleblowers, Silicon Valley/Venture-Funded Items, FDA Approvals

Discussion of Neuralink

Even a bit of Boeing Talk ($BA.D)

 

Record Deliveries still leading to a Loss

Catching up on Q2 2019 results and call on Twitter in real-time

Lots of mentioning of Average Sales Prices (ASPs)

Rant on publicity of Tesla crashes being a direct result of Tesla autonomy marketing

Real-time observations of SpaceX StarHopper Test videos from YouTube

https://patreon.com/tslaqpodcast

Brand New Sarbanes-Oxley-related lawsuit from Karl Hansen

Tesla Tucks Tail, Failing to Produce Videos from April Autonomous Model 3 Demonstration

Bit of discussion about $TSLAQ having gotten distracted

Speculation about why Tesla didn't want to produce evidence

Brief Quarterly Financial Report preview