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Seems like we are setting up for a historic buying opportunity. I am really tempted to cash out my slow growing IRAs despite the tax penalty, as a better long term play with more liquidity. These bears are a getting so fat and juicy on the fear in this market. Hunting them and eating them is...

Jeeze. Talk about irrational pessimism from Wall Street. You'd think there were an asteroid headed for earth's destruction in two weeks.

OK, a bit harsh language of me. Perhaps better to have said, let Elon pursue the things he wants. He himself has said he doesn't have much to do day to day with Tesla anymore. He has a great team. He has taken in interest in another company. He wants to spend his time turning things around in...

Yeah, I feel this might be a good idea. I initially though having Elon's compensation package tied to equity was a good idea. It was based on thinking that he would be holding onto the equities. For a little while at least. "Last to sell" and all that. Boy that didn't pan out well for us...

The reason for today's pop was because I was forced to sell a lot of shares at today's lows. Your welcome.

OK, so now we have it. I suspected there was a political reason why we were not supporting Ukraine with fighter jets and NATO spec tanks. The US and China made a secret deal to keep the war from escalating. Frankly, those Mig-29s were not worth it if it means China begins to support Russia...

Couldn't agree more. Channeling my inner Justin Bronk here.... Although near term, there are legitimate issues with using F-16s. I am confident Ukraine could overcome them, but the F-16 has a very fragile landing gear. It needs smooth runways, which even if Ukraine "polishes" those runways to...

For what it's worth, I ordered a Model Y on July 28th, after it seemed that the new tax credit was a sure thing. At the time estimated delivery was April 2023. Now Tesla's expected delivery is showing December of this year. Today's price is the same as what my original order is. So there is a...

Railroading is my profession. Changing rail gauge is a big task. From what I have seen on the internet (I have never been to Europe, let a alone Ukraine) most of Ukraine's railroad utilizes concrete railroad ties (sleepers). Therefore you will need to completely change all of the ties to change...

Ha. And here I was thinking just the opposite. Even at only 12,000 miles of track in Ukraine, it's still a lot of ties to change out. Where as you can simply drive some standard gauge trains into Ukraine from western Europe rather quickly.

I think it's a 400 Volt reman pack, 90L. Part # 1102982-01-A. This was not under warranty unfortunately. But $11,500 seemed reasonable for the replacement/upgrade.

So just a follow up on the battery situation. The battery has finally be properly replaced as of April 15th. Took a while, this all started November 26th, 2021. It took them until middle February to get the wrong battery pack installed. Then until April 15th to get the correct battery installed...

The way to prevent nukes being used, is to reiterate that it would trigger a reciprocal response, i.e. a nuke being dropped on them... Mutually Assured Destruction. ..and say it loudly.

My point was centered around providing more military aid to Ukraine. Things beyond just javelins and NLAWs and bullets. Particularly western fighter jets like F-15 & F-16, Anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ship missiles, C-RAM, Abrams tanks, and etc. I concur that it's not time to send in boots on...

Regarding the retirement of the F-22s in my earlier posts, the link below was what I was getting at. Rather than retiring them, we should really reconsider giving them to our Allies, if they want them. They are very expensive to maintain, and NATO allies already have their F-35s. But now would...

Thank you for the response, there is logic in a lot of these points, but some of these points need to be reconsidered given the reality of events on the ground in Ukraine. The MIG-29s: We don't really know what Russia is communicating to NATO on transfer of arms, but giving Ukraine some more...

What makes you so certain that providing military weapons to Ukraine would result in nuclear annihilation? Both the US and Russia have been exporting all kinds of military hardware across the world for decades. Nothing new. Ukraine becoming a slave-state of Russia would create the highest...

Agreed. The slow-walking of military aid to Ukraine is only benefiting the Russians. We need quick, decisive, and overwhelming action immediately to contain this conflict to Ukraine and prevent this from turning into World War 3.

With the events we see in Bocha, I can't even describe the carnage being inflicted on the Ukrainian civilians. Mass graves, torture, murder, and much worse. The Ukrainian people are being systematically murdered everywhere under Russian control. What more does it take for the West to get more...

It's an interesting event regardless if this was a false flag Russian attack or an actual Ukrainian strike. Russia's at home propaganda is in need of a boost, so the Russians need to instill fear in the populace to bolster flagging support for the war. A sign of bad things for Russia. If this...

In my experience once the restraining fasteners are removed, the rail will roll if you were to run a locomotive on it. Especially in a curve. Or just through the normal hunting action of the rail cars. But, the same device used to hammer off the towers, could also be designed to give the rail "a...

So as I understand it, there is a "Railroad War" going on in Eastern Ukraine. The Russian army relies heavily on railroads to provide logistics to their army. The Ukrainians blew up rail heads at the beginning of the war to prevent the Russians from using them. However in Russian occupied...

So the issue with this local distributor in Russia, is that it's locally owned in Russia and is using its existing inventory to continue to support Russian mining. No transactions are happening between Komatsu and it's Russian distributors. However, allegedly, technical support is still being...

Regarding companies still doing business in Russia... My brother works for Komatsu Mining in Milwaukee in the company's engineering management. I queried him on this. His response "We have halted all deliveries, access to drawings, and software. We have a distributor in Russia still supporting...

These appear to be effective against light armor. It may have the range, but might not be effective against armored ships.

If there is any truth to this, it would be pure insanity on the part of the Russians. Do they really think they are in any position to invade the west? Do they think that airstrikes into NATO countries would not elicit a response from NATO? I can only think that NATO would be forced to...

There may only be a smoldering radioactive pile of rubble left of Ukraine in another week. Things are happening very quickly. The cities are being surrounded and shelled to pile of rubble, people and all. What do we have a military for if we can't protect free people of Europe from their...

It would shut down even when the state of charge was over 80%. It was a weird failure that I haven’t seen before.

I have 200K on my 2013 S60 and it's battery is still running strong. Full charge is 188 miles. My parent's car which is a 2013 Model S P85+ had it's battery fail just recently at 86K miles. Long story short, age can be as much of a factor as miles. In the case of their battery failure, it was...

Folks, FYI the battery replacement is still in process. I want to give Tesla time to sort out our concerns. I feel it's fair to limit commenting on the issue until Tesla has had a chance to fully respond, but at least Tesla has acknowledged the concerns and is working to rectify.

I haven't paid the bill for the repair yet, so nothing.

Tesla service did just confirm it is in fact a 400volt 85kwh battery. So now what....? Shall I fight Tesla over this? The invoice that I approved clearly states a 90kwh battery. That was the repair I agreed to. Changing it back to an 85kwh battery was a bait and switch in my opinion.

So I maybe am jumping the gun here, but it looks like the battery replacement is turning out to be the worst case scenario. The replacement battery has finally arrived. It has been confirmed to be an 85Kwh battery, not the 90kwh battery agreed to when I approved the invoice. I asked for...

A tesla employee at the service center recently made a similar comment. "There are no more refurb packs available for the foreseeable future, it's likely you will just get a new 90kwh pack." I withheld mentioning this earlier, as I sometimes hear a lot of "BS" coming from Tesla folks who don't...

Late breaking update: Tesla has notified they have a battery pack assigned to the car and it will ship out from the supply warehouse on January 10th.

It's worth mentioning that although the car has been down at the service center for well over a month and no date for repair established from Tesla.... Tesla is providing a loaner vehicle, which is making the waiting process infinitely more palatable.

Agreed. We have asked Tesla to perform this service as a full warranty repair, however they have declined. That said, the repair hasn't been completed yet as we wait for the battery and we haven't paid. So there is still possibility for future negotiation.

Sorry, it is a typo. Should be 1102982-01-A

This car has a lot of prior warranty repairs, mostly from the prior owner. Although no HV battery specific repairs that I am aware of. I don't have all the repair paperwork from the prior owner, but the Tesla service adviser did go through it's history with me on his computer screen. Staggering...

Folks, reaching out here for advice or confirmation of best strategy... Lots of battery pack threads, I am picking this one. A couple years back I convinced my parents to buy a Tesla. They chose a used 2013 P85+ with about 65K miles at the time. Fast forward to November 23rd of 2021 and the car...

This sounds exactly like a conversation my wife and I had recently. 😒

I jumped back into the fray again this morning. Was hoping to sell a 755cc expire 9/17 during the early morning spike, figuring it would trail off. I was sorta right, but the trade didn't execute before the sell-off began. Held off for a while, waiting for a dead cat bounce or similar. It...

This year has been boring as far as the stock goes and have been looking around for ways to squeeze some more income out of my TSLA investment. So I dipped my toe into options trading on Friday last week. I sold a single 750 covered call that expires today. Come market open Tuesday, my 750cc...

If you are not already aware there is a phone app called Scan my Tesla. The app and bluetooth OBD2 adapter are not too difficult to install. Get's you a lot of info including the ones you mentioned.

I do plan on giving it a try before I abandon all hope.

I am very familiar with driving a 1972 Citroen SM. My father has one. I suspect you are entirely correct, rather they just made an electronic version instead of hydraulic. Which would account for why they think they can pull off the yolk style steering wheel. Keep in mind, even the 1972 Citroen...

Interesting, I guess my laziness gets gravity to help me make the turn. I get to use the weight of my arm to help make the turn. I guess I have never really thought about it until now...

OK, well get in your car and go make a right hand turn. I find it extremely awkward to hold the bottom of the wheel and slide your hand across your lap. I find I always grab the wheel at the top and pull it down. Not having anything up there to grab in order to turn is going to drive me crazy. I...

This redesign scares me. Rather the new steering "wheel", not really bothered by the rest. I can't fathom what Tesla is thinking. There is a reason the steering wheel is mostly round. In fact, I thought it was required by law. The only way a yolk style steering wheel has any practicality is if...

I am finding it really vexing to focus on work when every day for the last few weeks, it seems my trading account increases daily gains that exceed my entire annual salary. First world problems...