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Not sure if Tesla is a premium brand in terms of luxury. Model S to me is a sport sedan with much more emphases on sporty than luxury - but judging by sales results obviously market is much more keen on sporty than luxury right now:) Not saying that Tesla can’t do it, but some of Tesla´s biggest...

Of course I am not talking about 3-5 years, but about 10-15 years and that will be the time when cars without driving wheels will be sold. I know 10-15 years is a long time, but also Tesla valuation is based more on future prospect than on 2016-2017 expectations. If car is sold without driving...

I am thinking about impact of self driving on sporty car brands. IMO self driving takes away all the advantage from sporty brands like BMW or Tesla. With self driving advantage of quick acceleration, superior handling and immediate reaction to accelerator is diminishing. Self driving to me is...

Slovakia is country w/o supercharger or service centre, but it already has commited fan base: Suvereno - TESLA (prod. Jeso) /OFFICIAL VIDEO/ + ENG subtitles - YouTube

this is just a reality in car industry. If you want to build a new platform it will take you 5-6 years. Tesla showed other producers that EV concept can sell lots of cars. They were watching market acceptance of Tesla and somewhere in the middle - end of 2013 they could see that pure EV might be...

In which word VW find Venture Capital backed sturt up from San Jose, which Tesla, with its connection to VCs, does not know about?

I dont think we will see 800km real life range EV unless costs are below 50USD/kWh and density is way above 500Wh/kg. 800km is around 200 kWh. IMO over 100-120kWh much more important will charging speed and infrastructure.

I am aware of what Tesla pays to Panasonic, but I was talking about whole battery pack costs - BMS, complex cooling system, fire protection and armour around cells and costs of putting it all together, you will get IMO to at least 2000USD. Bob Lutz said that all those costs in Volt are around...

I think 25900 for 60 kWh version is too optimitic. If you think about 200USD/kWh at pack level it will be 12.000 USD just for battery. Take 20% gross margin from 35.000 and you are left with 16.000 USD for rest of the car. It is on limit to produce something comparable with BMW3, especially if...

On the downside, it will eventually take the "art" out of vehicle propulsion systems. There is a sexiness to turbochargers, cam designs, exhaust tuning, electronic ignitions and timing, and all of the fine complexities needed to make the most out of an internal combustion engine. In 20 years...

If I understood it properly, there will be bigger battery pack for Model S maybe already next year, AWD for Model S will probably not come before Model X, AWD does not have an impact on range, gigafactory will be built and they want to achieve price reduction in battery pack at least 30%...

It is almost funny but it probably will be exactly as Elon said - they want to accelerate adoption of EVs and he also said it will be probably by 5 years. In 10 years batteries will be so capable that it will make sense for all car producers to get into EV business. But if Tesla succeeds with...

Very good points about Elon's incentives. I think that there is lots of space for price decrease in bsm and manufactoring proces of battery pack and that is low hangin fruit tesla is focusing on right now. Even though on cell level battery is already well bellow 200 usd/kwh whole pack together...

According to this battery pack will be somewhere between 350-400 usd/kwh. What I like about this video is how Elon downplayed Tesla success in order to calm down the fear of German buyers that by buying Model S they are killing jobs in Germany.

there is one detail that I think noone talking about. During 2ndQ earning calls Elon mentioned that optimal amount of cells is half of what they have today. In other words ideal volume of cell should be double to 18650. If Pannasonic is going to build one factory especially for Tesla than it...