Recent content by Resh

Just got a call from Tesla. They confirmed that they will not be making 5-seats or 7-seats in the MX Plaid, ever. They are canceling all 5/7 orders and moving people to 6, and waiving the +$6500 cost to upgrade from 5 to 6 as part of it. Effective immediately. The "waived" price is odd...

My February estimated delivery date slipped to March this morning. Had to call to update some finance details and cancel my trade-in, and they explained that all Model X's being pumped out for the past several months are to clear a backlog of orders for the pre-refresh MX in Q3/Q4 2020, plus...

Tesla got a LOT of cancellations because of financial fallout from Covid. Friends who work there wouldn't tell me how many, but "substantial." Given you can cancel your order all the way up until delivery day, Tesla was left with a lot of built cars and nobody to take them. They weren't even...

If you guys are curious, the used car market is screwed right now particularly because of Hertz and a lot of other big rental companies. Their business effectively disappeared due to all the travel restrictions. Hertz actually declared bankruptcy. Rental companies dumping their idle fleets onto...

Those "build tags" you guys are seeing are likely stamped by the website code build process. The "RC" you see means "release candidate," with a date about when it was branched, locked, or deployed. Same with the ".r1" designation. The source code is reporting which source code branch/version it...

Hey guys, just registered an account because I'm supposed get my Model Y tomorrow, but have lurked for awhile. A word on VINs from friends that actually used to work at Tesla: Tesla stock price has traditionally been very unstable, and a lot of that has come from speculation (positive or...