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My fav part of the press release for Mega pack: Tesla developed its own software in-house to monitor, control and monetize Megapack installations

Most of us here are aware but hardware is the revenue driver and software is the profit driver. Looking to forward to Tesla's software suite taking over the EV loops(EV generation, usages(transportation), and storage).
 

My take: He crushed the first half of the interview and the second half was considerably weaker but he still handled it as well as most seasoned analysts.

During the first half of the interview, he was actually shaking up the CNBC talking heads who were blown away by his answers and had to stumble over their words a bit in order to change the subject by asking an unrelated question.

It was obvious the CNBC heads didn't even know enough about the latest quarterly report to even question him on that without looking ignorant on the subject matter so they kept the questioning to simple overview types of questions like "I've never heard you voice any concerns about Tesla, certainly there MUST be some negatives. In your view what's the most worrisome thing about Tesla" (paraphrased) or general comparisons to Apple without Steve Jobs. None of them wanted to get into the nuts and bolts of the results (which is presumably what the post-earnings interview was intended to cover).

Gali could improve his already excellent performance by walking all over them when they ask dumb overview questions by saying something like "Well Musk certainly is a polarizing figure but lets look at the results he delivered this quarter, particularly in terms of ...." In other words, directing every dumb question back to the nuts and bolts of the numbers which Gali has such good command of and the growth rate from the previous quarter, the year-ago quarter, the direction management is moving, etc. etc.
 
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Assembly line workers arriving in GF3:

Squad leader reported salary ~10000RMB=$1450,66

It's easy to forget just how impressive this is. Employees are reporting in to start work in a state of the art car factory which was a muddy swamp just 6 months ago. It normally takes auto companies 6 years to get a new factory up and running. Congratulations Tesla and China!