EVs Today -- December 15, 2022

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December 15, 2022: the F-35 story. A very, very impressive website. A must-read.

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Ft Worth, TX: everything's bigger in Texas --

• 'BR's GE locomotives' built here;
• the F-35 is built here;

The locomotive factory:

FORT WORTH, Texas — For as loud as it is inside, what happens at this Fort Worth factory has kind of been kept quiet. 

 “We’re up here next to the NASCAR track,” said Patrick Wiltrout, vice president of manufacturing quality at Wabtec. 

This facility, formerly known as GE Transportation, is one of two in the nation that assembles locomotives. 

Wabtec has a million square feet at State Highway 114 and I-35W near the Texas Motor Speedway. 

“This is your diesel engine that powers the locomotive,” Wiltrout said standing next to a massive, newly refurbished V16 engine. 

The factory opened in 2013 and now employs 800 people. “I’ve been told you can power almost a residential block off the electricity that a single locomotive can produce,” he continued.

EVs today:

• RIDE: down 1.6%: trading at $1.28.
• RIVN: up 0.1%; trading at $24.47.
• LCID: down 1.7%; trading at $7.58.
• F: down 3%; trading at $13.08

Avatar: link here. We'll be seeing this movie tomorrow night, 6:00 p.m. A local Schwab office reserved the entire theater for its clients. 

Schwab: integration of TD Ameritrade with Schwab begins in January, 2023.

• each tranch will occur over a three-day holiday at which time, TD Ameritrade accounts moving over to Schwab will be "frozen" or something to that effect:
• first three-day holiday / "black-out period" -- the first 500,000 accounts
• second three-day holiday / "black-out period" -- the next 3 million accounts
• third three-day holiday / "black-out period" -- the next 3 million accounts
• final three-day holiday / "black-out period" -- the rest.

F-35: