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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Nov 25, 2018 - 05:15pm PT
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Being bipolar doesn't look like fun.
Once his meds kick in he'll likely reschedule that out a few decades.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 25, 2018 - 05:27pm PT
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He’s delusional if he thinks he’ll be beyond the reach of the SEC there.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Look out, Elon, here comes Audi's E-Tron GT, which will share a platform and 60% of parts with Porsche Taycan. Basically an A7, 590 HP, 0-60 in 3.5, 250 mi range, and can charge 80% in 20 minutes!
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Look out, Elon, here comes Audi's E-Tron GT, which will share a platform and 60% of parts with Porsche Taycan. Basically an A7, 590 HP, 0-60 in 3.5, 250 mi range, and can charge 80% in 20 minutes!
So in other words - look out! AUDI plans to bring out a car that isn't as good as a Tesla was 4 years ago. I mean, that was the point of Tesla, but I would hope by now that there would be cars that are better than Tesla in some way. I can add just as many miles on my x as this A7 theoretically can in the same 20 min. What is the point of adding 80% of 65 in 20 min when you can add 85% of 100 in 25?
Elon is still looking out, as are the rest of us including Porsche. Not seeing much on the roads though. -10C with snow on the roads up here and I'm still getting sub 5s 0-60 on the X. It drives better in snow with summers than my Toyota/Subaru do with Hak R3's. Just got a software update, again, and the Rivan truck plans to have an off-road feature, turning right wheels forward, left wheels back, you can turn on a dime.
https://electrek.co/2018/12/01/tesla-astonishing-porsche/
What Tesla did is ‘truly astonishing’, says Porsche
As Porsche is trying to bring to market its first all-electric vehicle, they look admiringly at Tesla’s success, which they see as “astonishing” when it comes to volume and pricing.
Porsche’s North America Chief Executive Klaus Zellmer made the comment in an interview with the Los Angeles Times:
“If you look at what Tesla has done, if you look at their volume and look at their price level, it’s truly astonishing.
If you can do that with one brand and a sales network that is not comprised of dealers and a real sales organization, it’s even more astonishing.”
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What Tesla did is ‘truly astonishing’, says Porsche
Machiavelli, or somebody, said something to the effect
‘be very worried when your foe praises you.’
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Dec 14, 2018 - 04:50pm PT
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40,000 km on my X so I take it into the shop since, shouldn’t cars usually go in every 6,000km for an oil change or something? Tesla mechanic says, here, let me check it on the computer while I fill up your tank for free and give you some free winter wiper blades. Good to go! $0.
What heats up faster, the engine in your car and the air vents or your blow drier? Yup. Electric cars are much more comfortable up here in Northern BC winters than gas since they blow warm air sooner than gas cars. And hella cheaper. I just figured out that my Toyota truck will cost me $54k in depreciation, maintenance and fuel for the first 50,000 miles. My X is $26k. CAD. The model3 is going to be cheaper than a Toyota Corolla.
Oh, and I backed into something with my X and pushed the back of the car in. Tore the bumper plastic open and wrecked the reflectors. They send a guy in a mobile Tesla van who replaces it on site for $300.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Dec 19, 2018 - 04:34pm PT
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Tesla releases their five minute buy and drive away program today. Apparently they don’t have time to waste haggling and talking with a manager since sales volumes are too high. This is gonna piss off a lot of traditional shoppers/old fashioned folk who enjoy wasting hours haggling over/buying cars like they are trinkets in Tijuana.
Got home and you didn’t like it? Return it within a day and get all your money back. Get home and your wife gives you the evil eye? You have three days to convince her to keep it if you didn’t get a test drive.
I was sitting in my car today playing Mario cart or whatever it is using the steering wheel to drive the video game on the screen when my hygienist got in next to me. Good thing I had the emissions testing mode on when she sat down...!
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Dec 30, 2018 - 03:03pm PT
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So I was just in Whistler at the chargers and I saw a Tesla in the parking lot with it's window down. There was stuff in the car so I didn't want anyone to steal it. I called Tesla, gave the VIN and they rolled the window up after calling the owner to make sure it was ok to do so.
On the way home I had a question about the X, called Tesla. They did diagnostic check on it while I was driving and rebooted the computer. Both my screens went black for a few seconds after I held down both roller buttons on the steering wheel, and then we were good to go. All while driving at highway speed.
This car has saved me so much time since I don't need to go to a shop - if something is needed they don't make me stop driving or they drive to me.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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So why are there 3000 Model 3’s in inventory?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Tesla shares drop on price cut, disappointing Model 3 deliveries
(Reuters) - Shares in Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) dropped as much as 9 percent on Wednesday after the electric car maker cut U.S. prices for all its vehicles to offset lower green tax credits and fell short on deliveries of its mass-market Model 3 sedans in the fourth quarter.
The price cut “naturally begs the question: If demand for Tesla vehicles is as strong as Tesla has indicated in the past, why cut price?” Bank of America analyst John Murphy wrote in a client note. “In our view, this move could suggest that what many bulls assume to be a substantial backlog ... for Tesla may be less robust.”
Tesla turned a profit for the third quarter but is unprofitable for the first nine months of 2018, and cash flow remains a concern for investors.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Moosie, that might be the way capitalism works in Poland.
Have a nice trip. Hope you don’t get frostbit!
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Reilly you don’t seem to have an original thought. You let others think for you. Look at the numbers and come up with something on your own. They sold more than they produced this quarter. Less inventory in transit now than theee months ago. Also, every other company counts cars sent to middlemen/dealers as sold. Even if they pile up in lots. Compare apples to apples and you won’t look like a fool for parroting stuff that doesn’t make sense when you look at the real, big, picture.
Ford, for example, has more than two months worth of F-150 pickups sitting around at the moment — something on the order of 200,000 vehicles.
Whine about how the three doesn’t sell for 35k. Economies of scale come into play and price gets closer to 35 and you whine about that now? You realize how that makes you look right?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Toothy, hope yer enjoying a fresh batch of kool-aid for 2019! Is Canadian Capitalism like
Polish where you lower prices to curb demand? Quite the novel concept!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Tesla stores stayed open New Year's Eve so people could snag a big tax credit that just got cut in half.
Probably hurt '19 sales.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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If you can’t defend logic I guess all you have left in your bag of tricks are extraneous personal attacks eh Reilly?
The negative nancies have nothing left to criticize about now so they say the sky if falling since they had half a days worth of production in the pipeline at the end of the quarter. Maybe they should have stopped the production line for the last three days to make people not have anything to say? Or shut down a few factories like GM? Is that the new cool thing to do? Oh yeah, first you have to open them in other countries. Almost forgot!!
Ford, for example, has more than two months worth of F-150 pickups sitting around at the moment — something on the order of 200,000 vehicles.
There is three days of GMs production sitting unsold on lots in BC alone. Why not rant about that?
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Tooth there is a lot to say, but why waste my time.
I am not arguing that the cars aren't good.
The car you have produced in a normal fashion would have cost 2 or 3 times what you paid. You made a good buy.
GM & every other manufacturer can't sell directly to you & can't loose money on every car they sell. Elon is working with other peoples money.
The Moose is close to right as production has gone up cost per unit have gone down.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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^^^ Yes, but much sooner. Don’t forget the yuge bond payments due this year. They can’t make money at current prices so they lower prices to boost sales they can’t meet? And how do you explain the 3000 Model 3’s sitting around? Is their delivery system that bad?
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