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Just tell them that you wipe after every use. That is even more than "every so often"

Is there a reason you didn't pull over safely in those 30 seconds rather than having it stop in the middle of the street?

Yes, that is a more specific term, but if you want to use specific terms, then you should call it an IC engine (or ICE) to distinguish it from a non-IC engine. Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that saying it is not an engine is incorrect. That would be being dictionary inaccurate.

That would be false. Engines: "a machine for converting any of various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion" Merriam-Webster The more you know!

exactly. note that the author of the article kept saying •”must” when the above says “should”, “if possible”, “is ideal”, “please consider”. there is a difference this improper editorializing and getting the facts wrong shows the author is peddling fake news and is not particularly credible.

May want to ask them to check out those seams while you are there.

If you actually believe that Tesla will be a trillion dollar company, than you should sell everything you have and load up on TSLA. Where else are you going to find a 30x return like that?

24,500 is no more suspicious than 24,542 or 24,442. The odds are 1/100 that a number ends in 00 or 01 or 02. No, it was listed as conservative because it only includes cars that were delivered and paperwork delivered. So what everyone else in the industry does as standard practice, Tesla views...

The Not too hard to understand. They gave and reaffirmed guidance of 80-90k cars delivered. The price had that expectation built in. This result and the expectation they will do the same or a bit better means they will likely miss the low end of the guidance.

it really depends on the guidance, doesn't it? The guidance they confirmed after Q2 was 80-90k for the year. If they do 25k in Q3 and have guidance that says they will 30k in Q4, then they will be in the middle of the yearly guidance, which would be ok. If they steer to the low end of the...

Where does Google say that Apple's share of the market is 18% globally and declining? Their Q1 sales were 18% but that is not their share of the market. As for your Tesla numbers, that also is not share of market, but sales within a period.

That is because Tesla still isn't done with the second step of the first master plan. The second step was to create an affordable EV. The Model 3 is that car as it comes in around the average price of a new car fits the bill of an affordable car, and with the number of pre-orders should be...

Of course he is writing it for the public: congrats on the great quarter so far. then have it show up on twitter. LOL.

Coincidentally, Solar City just appointed a "Small CFO"

It is WRONG to complete the paperwork and sale for a car and not deliver it because it isn't available. Good for Elon for calling that out.

Huh? As of January 2016, Apple had 43.3% of Smartphone subscribers. This is up 0.3% from the October numbers. comScore Reports January 2016 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share Do you have any citations about the price elasticity in the market? It isn't clear that Android users would switch...

How does it show up in SGA? The accounting is the price of the vehicles sold as revenue less the COGS to get to GM. SG&A is an entirely different bucket. If it weren't, every company would shove discounts into SG&A as a way to pump up their gross margins.

Well summarized. GAAP profitability is an interesting milestone if it is the beginning of a series of quarters of profitability. If it is a one-off, it gets discount accordingly. Besides, didn't TSLA have one quarter of profitability a bit ago?

Maybe many conservatives don't believe that rich people should get subsidized for conspicuous consumption of a car that goes 0-60 in under 3 seconds Despite the characterizations in the press, the average conservative family makes less than a liberal family - so it isn't about supporting the 1...

SolarCity names Radford Small CFO I agree. Hiring Radford as a Small CFO indicates confidence that the deal will go through. I haven't heard the title of "Small CFO" before, but it makes sense to hire one if you believe the merger will go through. You don't need a regular CFO in the interim...

Just remember that. Move on. Enjoy the car.

What quantative measures support the current valuation of the company? P/E? Comps? DCF? FCF? Of course there is emotion on trading this stock: "they will revolutionize the industry", "it is the best car ever", etc.

Reply to moderator edit: The point is whether the quarters result are indicative of a fundamental change or a one time event in order to do a cap raise. An extreme example is that Tesla can easily be gaap profitable if it stops all investments. So being gaap profitable really means nothing if...

One quarter does not a trend make. There are reports of large discounts to move cars, trying to get people from the 3 reservation to the S, pleading to cut back expenses this quarter to show those meanies on Wall Street. Now, if that is the new normal and they keep cutting price to move cars at...

Well, if the US adopts similar incentives of 50% discounts vs. alternatives and other benefits, maybe it can do it in 15 years, because the cars still are expensive and out of reach of many people. "Electric cars are exempt from value added tax (VAT) and purchase tax, which on average in Norway...

Remember, Musk believes the odds are really high that we are living in a computer simulation so maybe this Mars thing is just a way to Run up the points in the game. Sort of like in Civilization where interplanetary travel gets you bonus points

Have the logs been released or is this "trust us, we looked at the logs". Many companies say things like "we looked at our data and this couldn't have happened". What did GM first say when the claims of ignition lock or when other companies were accused of sudden acceleration issues?

More than enough to take up the vast majority of each year's production targets.

Mercedes - drake raps and tweets about it 34m followers. Bentley - kardashian tweets about it to her 48m followers. Sorry, you only asked for 1.

Wonder what happened to all the preorders. Did they already deliver all those preorders? That would mean a lot of X's were delivered.

Some context for this. First commercial solar cells were available in the 1950s. But they were expensive: $300/watt. The major change in the cost structure for solar cells happened in the 1970s. The cost went from $100/watt to $20/watt. The major driver/researcher for that? Exxon.

Why? Isn't it about the state of the art rather than sales? Besides not "anyone " can buy a car from Tesla. You need serious money or credit to afford a $70k car.

Well, that would explain how they only managed to sell 9,000,000 last year and have 3 years of consecutive sales growth. All the haters are buying the cars and not driving them to keep them off the road.

The rules for the "business model" have existed for a long time and GM, Ford and others have to follow them too. Just because a new player wants to do something different, it doesn't mean that they are entitled to. But nice attempt to blame GM for it.

TSLA will probably go up on this news, and potentially a lot. That may embolden more investors to push for the classic "stick to the knitting" strategy and nail the Model 3 and get some early momentum on the Model Y. Those would all be great things for Tesla and great things for the EV industry.

Your ranger agreement is the agreement. It doesn't matter what an employee says since they don't have the authority to change the terms. They can do things for good will purposes, which they have done, so you should be happy.

Lol If that were true you wouldn't have posted...much less posted anonymously.

If they are rockin, don't come a knockin! Other people have this problem, but only the SC can fix it.

If you are looking at your phone while driving, you are negligent. Especially if he noticed you doing this over a mile. Pay up and move on and don't do that anymore. Did you see that commercial about the kid in the car, who turns out was not in the car and actually killed by a negligent driver...

get 90 miles in 30 minutes of charging. why do people care so much? How many people use their car to drive that far, and if they do, get an ICE, it goes a lot further on a full tank.

Huh? The link says that is the EPA-estimated range. It never said "at most" - where did you get that from? Or where did you get that it doesn't apply to the base model? Do you have another link? The Model 3 is an engineering goal, nothing that has been achieved in production. Just like...

I don't think people here "just know more". What actual information would people have that the market does not have? As fans of Elon and longs and owners Tesla's, they may have different viewpoints than impartial hosts who are looking at the spread and have seen tons of deals, spreads, etc.

You are right, they are not free parking spots. People paid for them as part of their car purchase You also have no idea if the person had a really bad burrito and is dealing with it. I really wish people would be more tolerant and positive rather than casting asparagus at people.

If you read the article, you will realize that you are wrong. The author has the sequence of events correct. You read too much into the headline. He delayed that blog post, he later attacked Wall Street. The "instead" refers to him attacking instead of finishing off the delayed blog post. By...

Wouldn't a 20% increase in 1 month be considered a break through (200-> 245)?

Mercedes has this. Given their commitment to safety, I am sure they would license it to Tesla for free (if a license were required).

As a public company, Tesla is not independent. There is a case for getting a PE firm to take the company private.

Why don't they do all this today? They could have done this with setting up a table in Home Depot or Lowes or even at Tesla. The reason is that Solar is still a hard sell in an undifferentiated market and all that requires paying high commissions. Nothing about the Tesla acquisition/bailout...

1. The original comment was about Republicans being negative, not politicians. 2. Beck, O'Reilly and others can have a lot more influence on politics than some local politician or even State politician. They have a big audience.

Confirmation bias. I doubt Morgan Freeman's lack of understanding is at all correlated with whether or not institutional investors who drive the stock understand this. Besides, didn't Joseph Kennedy observe that when everyone is giving you a tip about a stock, it is a sure sign to sell?