Whats driving the FOMO behind IOTA's rocketing?

Hello Steemians,
Yesterday was a huge day for anyone invested in IOTA. Rocketing to $2 by 12 pm GMT (at the time of this being published prices have risen further still to almost $2.50). Yesterday I spotted what looked like the start of a pretty average pump 'n' dump, at around 10 am. I started my own due diligence and took to various news outlets to find what could be causing the 10% price jump.
I found nothing, nothing at all...
I believe in the team as much as the next person, but without a reason for the increase, it must be a pump, right?

So I sat watching the price trying to predict where the price would peak and the correct waiting to swing. I sat for hours, checking the news and waiting for it to peak.
at about 4 pm the price was slowing slightly but still hadn't peaked, then 'ding' I get a notification from Twitter, a new post from Iota...

Ok so this could be something, right? Was the price jump fueled by people that know more than we do?

Let's break the image down some more.

Point 1:
The image is only from a simulation and is not a real-world test, this is not an official announcement of an upcoming project, It merely nudges at the fact the team are simulating the events for future use.

Point 2:
So this is going to be a slightly longer point than the last, with some assumptions thrown in, so if your reading this and I have got it completely wrong, please tell me where I went wrong so I can learn from that mistake.
With the fact that this box is the same green as the displayed charging points, I am assuming that each charging point will be generating an average of 90 transactions per second (TPS) when in use. which may or may not require IOTA to fund any charging.
Now, 90TPS is a lot! If we look at this diagram showing the number of TPS the network in comparison to other coins!
so 90TPS in this simulation would account for less than a 1/5th of the total network traffic (still a hefty chunk right?)
the important piece of information here is the scalability... we will get to that in a moment.

Point 3:

The Tesla Model S, this car other than being stunning, is obviously fully electric, with in-built computer with pretty decent computing power. The Teslar Model S is capable of running a mining computer installed in the boot and attached to the supercharger source (cointelegraph.com)
So lets just think about the previous graphic on the number of TPS and IOTA's claim for scalability to infinity with more users/devices (Just suppose for a second every new Tesla comes with a core wallet installed and contributing to the network) now all of a sudden the number of TPS the network can handle increases with each Tesla purchase??? Interesting right? Am I talking sense here? Or have I lost you?

Point 4:
So if I remember correctly, (please remember I am new to all this) the number of transaction on the network directly affects its value? so the calculation of 18,756 transactions confirmed and $44,500 revenue is based on 1000 vehicles and 500 charging stations, but if this was to roll-out across the country?
at the start of 2017, there were 5000 charging stations across the globe cnbc and 26000 Tesla cars on the road Tesla

Twitter News:
So this morning 4th Dec 2017 I find on twitter a post by IOTADevs which says:

Currently working on a T*****s plugin...

Stay Tuned!

Now admittedly there's no official link to the IOTA dev team, a quick search revealed the handle of the owner to be a member of the GitHub developer Program, who has, in fact, contributed to IOTA previously, This, however, does not mean he is working on anything on behalf of the team nor does it necessarily tie to Tesla. In fact, if we take the number of *'s literally there's more chance it could be Trezor's or possibly Teslars (if we haven't checked our spelling). I won't be naming them, as I don't wont to upset anyone but the information is there for people to find and check yourselves.

Also if we look at the recent partnership with Microsoft, (Os for Tesla cars??) there's plenty of evidence to suggest that something very big is coming very soon. So is Tesla and IOTA partnership on the horizon?

There is another piece of news that's floating around on the web for those that do there on research, and that is the discovery of IOTA in the Bittrex source code Reddit. Now, this doesn't mean that the release of IOTA is imminent on Bittrex as by all account the source code has been there for some time already, but it should help to boost the bull run to somewhere around $5 maybe?

That's about everything I have found so far, I hope you have found this information relevant and useful.
Don't just take my word for any of this, of course, go out and research it all yourselves.

Please leave a comment below, do you agree with what I found? am I insane and reading too much into it? Or just say Hi!

Take care everyone.