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A couple of quick thoughts, but when reading, realize that I have no idea where you live and if state regulations change anything, or what types and levels of car insurance you have, but here we go. Don't try to fight this yourself -- if you haven't already done so, contact your insurance...

Rockbus: Wall Street agrees with you, as they view this as another Elon non-starter that will appeal to a very narrow market of people who don't need a pickup truck, therefore Ford, GM and Dodge are giving off a big sigh of relief. To me, it looks like a botched combination of a jacked up...

Having ordered an taken delivery of a new 2015 P90D, paying $3,000 for the upgrade from an 85Kw battery to a 90Kw battery to get the extra range, I very quickly realized that I wasted $3,000, because 99% of the time, my daily need was less than 50 miles/day. I would have been way ahead with...

Supercharging was never an issue for me, as 99% of my driving was within 200 miles of my home round trip, and I'd just plug it into my 240V line when I got home. If I needed to go on a long distance trip and there was no superchargers available to me (common problem in states with sparse...

Jerseygirl18: Au contraire, people like me do go back. I'd driven S class Mercedes for 20 years before ordering a 2015 P90D. At first I was gaga over it. But the things I really liked were the massive torque from the electric motors, the lane assist and the smart cruise control. I was...

Knock knock. who's there? Nobody but us robots, and a few humans. Video: Watch many robots, few humans assemble Porsche Taycan | Porsche Club of America

After I turned in my 2015 P90D 6 months prior to the end of the lease (I was disgusted with Teslas policies and service), I went back to Mercedes. They have an Enterprise desk right there next to the service writers, cars are always available and the fleet consists of low mileage C class and...

When I bought my P90D in late 2015, I considered the 7 seat option, and I was told the 2 extra seats could be removed from the car if I needed to, but with that 7 seat option, the 3 normal rear seats were locked in place, i.e. they could not be folded down flat, which is something that I need...

Daniel, this is not a sudden new problem occurring as a result of ramping up production. Tesla simply doesn't know how to deal with customer problems, but the bigger issue is that from how they operate (actions speak louder than words), they flat out don't give a crap about their customers...

This is sad. No way to treat a customer. After I turned in my P90D that I had leased, I bought a 5 year old CPO Mercedes from a MB dealership. There was an area on the drivers seat that was noticeably dark, I suspect from the PO leather belt. I bought the car with them giving me a "We Owe"...

Agree. Another "miss" on corporate guidance, but typical. I have a hard time seeing diehard Ford F-150 buyers -- specially diesel heads -- flocking to a "cyberpunk" pickup that's lower and easier to get into. If anything, most hardcore owners jack their trucks up to look badass. But maybe...

Papafox: I respect your having your rightful opinion, but you present it as if certain entities are out to manipulate the price with the purpose of hurting TSLA. If you have the same trading experience that I do, you know that shorting and buying Puts has been a bread and butter risk...

Gwgan: As I currently don't have a position in TSLA, I don't monitor their short interest or Put/Call ratio, but given its inherent volatility, 20% could be right. I accept that. If TSLA spikes up, those shorts are going to get their heads handed to them in a big way. But, I attribute it...

The boy was wrong in pulling out, but as seen in the video, it appears that you took no action to abruptly swerve and avoid the accident, rather continuing straight and hitting him. Is that due to a bad camera angle? Regardless, as others have said, I feel sorry given that your car got...

Papafox: I continue to be befuddled at your continuing to attribute TSLA stock movement to the conspiracy theory of movement being due to market manipulators versus normal market action, as if TSLA stock was somehow being singled out. There are tons and tons of companies where there are short...

The technology around AP was developed by an Israeli company which will sell/license it to any car company with a checkbook, which is why it is now very commonplace across many, many brands. I think the problem is how Tesla has deployed it, perhaps how it handles data from sensors, how its...

There's an old saying in business -- across all industries -- that customers usually forget a great price, but they never forget bad service.

At $120,500, my P90D Model S was equivalent in price to a new large S class Mercedes. A new AWD S class with the twin turbo V8 engine starts around $105k. Other than the difference in drive train (i.e. I like electric better), there is no comparison as the Mercedes is head and shoulders...

Before buying a P90D in 2015, I'd driven Mercedes for over 20 years, typically having a couple at the same time, with their ages ranging for new to 20+ years old. Any time I took one in for service -- even the 20 year old ones -- I got a relatively new Mercedes loaner, as it was standard...

This is just one more example of Tesla not knowing how to be a car company. It was for that reason and their inability to fix many problems that I turned in my leased 2015 $120,500 P90D when it was 2.5 year old, six months ahead of time, writing a check for $9,000 in the process and went back...

They constantly have hundreds of cars there, vehicles consuming 100% of available parking at a large former Toyota dealership, and every time I drive by, it's always the same. I don't believe it's cars waiting for repairs (very bad sign) or delivery, rather I suspect that they are cars looking...

In what used to be a large Toyota dealership, the now Tesla dealership near me has cars stacked up like cord wood waiting for buyers.

Mikedrives: You are talking about 2 different parts of the braking system. Brake pads and rotors get used very little due to regenerative braking, si they may not need to be replaced for many years. But as I stated in a prior post, brake fluid is hydroponic and it absorbs moisture from the...

Let me offer a different POV. I drove S class MBs for 20 years before buying a P90D Model S with every available upgrade. After turning it in at the end of the lease after many, many problems, parts taking months to arrive, etc, I went back to MB, currently driving an E550 with a twin turbo...

And to lose everything, you bet 100% of every penny you have on a single stock as Frenchboy has done, when it moves against you. There's a difference between investing and gambling. Similar to taking your life's savings to the roulette wheel at a casino and putting it all on red. Hero or zero.

Frenchboy: For you to have 100% of every penny/Euro that you have in ANY one stock is a huge risk, and especially any stock that is volatile. Sure -- you can make a fortune by being so heavily concentrated, but you can also see massive losses. Understand that I am not limiting my comments to...

There's a huge downside to the Frunk in the Model S. In order to make something that was completely unnecessary (given the large size of the rear trunk) Tesla designers packed a whole lot of mechanical components way down low in the front of the car. I made the mistake of running the nose of...

Short question, requiring a long answer. My main battery was found to be defective when my 2015 P90D was a few months old. They refused to simply give me a replacement despite the car being so new, saying that was not how Tesla did it, instead they would remanufacture my battery. So they...

That was my experience also. Service and parts availability was so horrendous that I couldn't take it any longer and wrote a big, almost 5 digit check to pay off the lease on my P90D 6 months ahead of schedule. Good example of putting your money where your mouth is. Sad, but that's what...

Terrific response, but it has nothing to do with what I posted. My post was "There seems to be a perception that no other car manufacturer in the world is actually close to producing EVs", so I provided a link showing there was another major manufacturer getting ready to roll out EVs. Since I...

I agree with you. It's all about risk assessment, which is why prudent investors pay attention to things like consistent profitability and growth, level of debt, EPS, FCF, etc. of any company that they invest in whether they are making cars or pharmaceuticals. Of course, not everyone is an...

Papafox: I didn't say anyone was a country bumpkin -- those are your words. I said that a prudent investor considers all possibilities. You put yourself forward as an extremely advanced and technically astute analyst, so I'm relatively sure that you would agree with my statement, as unforeseen...

Have you taken into consideration that perhaps when the European automakers you reference start selling their EV vehicles worldwide in 12 to 18 months and start generating their own EV credits, that they won't need to buy any from Tesla, and that revenue source will dry up? A prudent investor...

Tesla, like every other car company out there, wants to make money and they are taking on the risk of selling your trade in, they may have to put money into it, they may have to take a trade-in to sell your car, and they typically have to offer some sort of warranty, all of which costs them...

That's not exclusive to Tesla -- that's how the car companies have worked for the last 100 years. they buy low, put money into re-furbing the car and then sell for a profit, therefore there has to be a visible spread. Or, if it's not a car they want to hold, they send it off to auction with the...

TSLA is acting like any other stock that faces headwinds. In this case it is concern over production numbers, FCF, cash burn rate, and Elon losing credibility with Wall Street analysts. As an investor for many years, I've seen this movie many times, so I think that it's going to take some...

Papafox: Just because i have a different point of view of things shouldn't get you riled up. My most recent post featured GE and why the stock market is reacting to what was once the darling of Wall Street under Jack Walsh, and recently flirted with talk of bankruptcy due to mismanagement...

Papafox: Put TSLA aside for the moment and look at GE. Once a terrific company, but almost went bankrupt due to a CEO who started doing acquisitions all over the world that made no sense, sporting a big ego and taking on a lot of debt. There was no focus to his leadership, and to avoid...

Papafox: As of this Monday morning, TSLA broke below 200, and then recovered. As I write this, it's at 203. From everything that I can see it isn't because of a long, highly technical set of reasons, or because of the short sellers. Rather it's the Wall Street analysts (i.e. not traders)...

What worries me is their cash burn rate. In his email to employees, Elon stated that the $2.4Billion cash infusion that they just got was only enough to keep the lights on for something like another 10 months, and he called for extreme cost cutting. Worrisome.

I bought a new 2015 P90D and quickly learned that even with the software upgrades, it would often either serve abruptly, or cross over into an adjacent lane while going around a sweeping curve on Autopilot, so I always kept one or both hands on the wheel, given I used autopilot daily. The first...

I totally agree with your last statement. If I don't understand and agree with the fundamentals of a company, their business model and their industry, I won't touch it regardless of people projecting "to the moon" money. This has kept me entirely out of social (SNAP, PINS, TWTR) and other...

Having been a licensed broker for many years and in the financial industry for 40, I don't think there's any reasonable licensed advisor who would recommend having as much as 10% in any one stock, especially one that gyrates around as violently as TSLA. If you are managing a $5M portfolio...

The nefarious side of me would ask a couple of friends who have spare cars to go with me and park lengthwise in front of the noses of those cars so that they couldn't move, leaving a note with my cell phone number.

Actually someone not on meds, former P90D owner who realizes strengths and weaknesses of Tesla products versus someone who worships them Godmobiles. These are commuter cars folks, not race cars.

OK -- you are brilliant. Put up a Model 3 against Kia's and SUV's on a track, versus Porsche, BMW, MB, etc. Wow -- I'm impressed -- what an incredible track performance!!! Your argument is brilliant. What I was referencing was a flat out WOT throttle run video at the Nürburgring in...

Track time in a Model 3? You may want to do a little research on how EV's do under constant WOT as it kills the battery. There is a video out there of someone taking a Model S around the Nürburgring in Germany. Results were less than amazing.

This is a truly ridiculous statement. I leased a P90D. At 3 years I thought I'd buy out the lease and sell it. Wrongo. I couldn't find anyone who wanted it, given that the car had technology that was far behind the current model, such that at 3 years old, my car was considered obsolete...