Just FYI, I reached out to Ben Kallo today regarding the Benzinga article.
Me: "An article about your meeting with Tesla management was just published claiming: 'Specifically, management noted that it is on track to produce about 250,000 vehicles by the end of 2017.' (Actionable Trading Ideas, Real Time News, Financial Insight | Benzinga). Can you confirm if this is true?"
Ben Kallo: "No that's not what we wrote. We wrote that production will ramp to that - consistent with what they said before - exiting the year at 5k M3 per week. Thanks for reaching out."
Thanks for going to the source on this, Dave. Nice to confirm as we suspected that Ben Kallo has too solid a track record to make a mistake like that. An inexperienced, junior reporter at Benzinga (shocker!) was the culprit.