Recent content by Donkasan

I am a new owner of model 3 standard range without self driving package. I noticed when I am driving the vehicle there is an area on the touch screen where cars surrounding me is being displayed. Mostly cars in front of me are being displayed; cars behind me are not shown unless one is right...

These developments reduced my confidence in Tesla. Perhaps I am more comfortable with ordering a model 3 after it is already in production.

I have a model 3 reservation. If this SCTY deal goes through, then I will have to consider canceling it.

The video was a little too slick for me. If their technology was that promising then the description should have been more straight forward instead of being evasive.

I own a 2010 Prius. It actually have respectable power if you floor the accelerator, but the MPG would tank. Most of the time I try to drive it in an efficient manner, and power is lacking in that context. Its electric motor is anemic and I often find an almost full battery but not being able...

There is a garbage article at MIT Technology Review today that claimed that the Tesla Model S will overload the local grid. It said one model S is the equivalent of one house's electrical load. This is nonsense. I have written a reply in response...

There are some strategic positioning factors that could be Tesla's favor, that include its patent portfolio, its distribution model, and the super-charger network. They are hard to quantify though. But still Tesla's valuation is so rich it already projects the company into the years when Tesla...

The thing is that Tesla's current valuation already assumes a yearly revenue of 16.6 billion dollars if I compare it to Porsche, an established luxury car maker. You can meet $16.6B yearly revenue with 400,000 units of Gen3 vehicles per year. That probably assumes 5 to 6 years of flawless...

Some of his quotes can be traced to his 1996 letter to the shareholders. http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/1996ar/1996.html The relevant paragraphs can be found just prior to the heading named "USAir".

Right; this is a good problem to have, but if the stock owner didn't do anything it would have ballooned up to a 40% position by now? That would violate the too many eggs in one basket rule. The alternative would be to keep selling a portion of it all the way up to limit it to 10%. The...

I like to control the level of regeneration when I brake; I do that regularly driving in my Prius. I think I will defer to you guys since you know the model S better than me.

Ok. That explains it. I myself would not like this one pedal driving style; too much risk of pressing on the accelerator when an emergency braking situation comes up. Hopefully they can do a firmware adjustment for this item.

Hi, Being lurking for a few months here. I heard a few cases when people have said that they can drive the Model S by only using the gas pedal, and I always wondered why they do not use the break pedal normally. Can't the break pedal also control regenerative breaking, or is that out of the...

The thing is that most people should invest in index funds instead of individual stocks, say 60% in a stock index fund, and 40% in a bond index fund. If you have to do individual stocks, limit them to 10% of your total portfolio. As good as Tesla is as a company it is just one company and the...

It's hard to incorporate battery swapping into the existing model S. Maybe the swapping actually refers to replacing bad cells at a repair center? For longer range driving maybe they can rent out a towed trailer, with either a gasoline powered generator, or a propane fuel-cell. This might not...