Recent content by HawaNY

I'm compelled to give an update on a persistent problem: interference with the key transmitter can make it impossible to open the car. For example, there is a toy store in Washington DC that's in a dead zone, for some reason. Maybe a transformer box above? If u take your kids there u stand a...

Citizen-T, how do you recommend managing the tax issues with that approach. It seems to me that unless you are in an IRA (as Robert.Boston wrote), each time you jump out and are looking to jump back in, you need Tesla to fall enough to make up for the 20% that you need to pay in capital gains...

HawaNY- CitizenT on another thread is working through those numbers to see what that total might amount to- but yes, could have those kind of implications, depending on how it's done and back OT- this may actually make Q1 earnings report one for the history record books; Thanks, so many...

How could a cash infusion, for superchargers or whatever, something on $250 million level, with minimal dilution impact (just $50 mill worth) not be a huge deal? Free money at a time when cash flow is seen as THE fundamental risk to the long term survival of the company.

OK, thanks, so Elon would have the ability to put more like $250 million into the company based on just these options, right, if he sold them right away?

Much appreciated. Right, so the $50 million or so is the amount that Tesla would get automatically, and if Elon sells them first and then uses that money for Tesla, that would be more like $250 million, I suppose. Now that's a lot of superchargers. But he's probably not allowed to sell all...

Quick novice question: to plow the 50 m or so from his options back into the company, how does that work? Does he have to actually sell them, or just borrow against them somehow? And it does dilute the stock by a bit either way right (although small in the big scheme of things, I understand)?

yeah, thanks, will do. Each time we've called so far, there's been hope that we've now fixed it (4.2 update, turning off auto-lock, etc) but then it just happened again. This time key was left inside, the car locked unexpectedly, and we couldn't open, even though key was in cup-holder. Maybe...

My Wife and I have now had multiple times where we are unable to immediately get to our young kids as we go from front to back of car, get out groceries, etc, because the car has unexpectedly locked itself and won't open. We have the auto-lock feature turned off, and it has still happened...

Thanks! Yeah, that tells me that "free solar" for Tesla owners probably won't be it. Would be nice though.

His personal financing if supercharges would be a big deal. IMO a major short motivator is that TM won't get over the "hump" of having enough cash to have enough supercharges to make the breakthrough to large scale adoption, which depends on solving the road trip issue. Taking that breakthrough...

Isn't the point of solar city that its already free: they install the system and you pay, but still save money vs you current bill, for the electricity?

That looks exactly like me. Uncanny. My meter is Lutron EMF-832...

Sorry for late reply...I probably have consumery version, but got the fanciest I could easily find on Internet. 200 bucks or so. Will post model number... - - - Updated - - - Ok, wait, so you ARE making fun of me for having an EMF reader? Rats.

As long as no one makes fun of me for having an emf reader, I will report that I took a ride with my performance S, burned rubber, and never saw any reaction from the reader. In front and back seats it stayed under 1 mg. Held it low near feet, nothing. By comparison if I hold same device near...