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Highlights/News/Events

• How to watch the Jupiter and Saturn 'great conjunction' of 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/15/how-to-watch-the-jupiter-and-saturn-great-conjunction-of-2020
• On Dec 21st Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer to one another and brighter than they have in 800 years 
• an event known as a “great conjunction”

TESLA,THE STOCK & EV STORIES

• Plug-in hybrids in new emissions scandal as tests show higher pollution than claimed https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/plug-hybrids-new-emissions-scandal-tests-show-higher-pollution-claimed

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

• Las Vegas approves Boring Company’s Loop transport system with Tesla vehicles
• Here’s a map of the next stop, The Wynn: https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wynn-to-lvcc.jpg 

BATTERIES, GIGAFACTORY, ENERGY STORAGE

• Rumor: Tesla Giga Berlin Will Soon Receive Model Y Prototypes with New 4680 Tabless Cells & Structural Architecture https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-giga-berlin-will-soon-receive-prototypes-model-y-with-4680-tabless-cells-and-a-new-architecture

SUPERCHARGER UPDATE 

• Thank you to supercharge.info  
• Since our last BIG show, Supercharger activity includes:

Open20
Construction11
Permit1
TeslaStations:2079
Stalls:18,940

• Electrify America (Volkswagen)

Stations:525
CCS Stalls: 1776  +24
CCS-CHAdeMO Stalls: 521+ 5 = Total: 2,297SPACE-X & AEROSPACE

• SpaceX SN8 Flew, Pitched, Belly Flopped, Rited itself then KABOOMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHxiX40eJY 

MEDIA PICKS

• Mel 
• The Virgin Way - Richard Branson

• Robert  
• Cooking with AOC https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIpCnIFHoE3/?hl=en She starts to make salmon in a cream sauce and gives an off the cuff breakdown of government efforts to pass a COVID stimulus bill, provide student debt relief and more. 
• Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me by Charlamagne tha God, A super honest self assessment and example setting for good health both physical and mental from provocative cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club

• Tom 
• Street Food: Asia on Netflix - A lovely (low carbon)  way to pretend to not be locked in your home and be able to travel in your mind
• Season 2 of the Mandelorian 
• Aussie Gold Hunters on Netflix

• Joel - https://www.parrygripp.com/ for the parents. He’s really good. 

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