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Vacationing in Taiwan, at a Toyota dealer where it used to have a bz4x demo car and signage on glass wall are no where to be seen anymore. The only leftover hint is what's on the wall. However, now in front of this wall there is a poster gaslighting shoppers. My rough translation: There can't...

Rohan Patel, Tesla policy, directly addressed this this issue below. Summary, they need extensive validation.

OT Fisker is down 46% AH today from news that it's seeking bankruptcy. https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/fisker-stock-crashes-35-in-face-of-potential-bankruptcy-432SI-3336817

Requires CAD$7800 "Enhanced Autopilot" option

Here is a Chinese podcast (you can turn on English subtitle) interviewing an ex 7-year Tesla AI employee, on his thought on TSLA, his personal investment, and his experience in Tesla AI team. This host bought his air-b&b house, where they recorded this interview, with his TSLA investent.

Another source from Taiwan also shows 544 Model X. This source has more detailed as it lists it under import luxary SUVs on the right column, left column are sedans where Model S delivered 198 In fact, in this source, it explicitely states that Model 3 only had total 511 delivery for the...

Taiwan's December sales numbers are out: 1.Toyota Corolla Cross，3587 2.Honda CR-V，2133 3.Toyota RAV4，2092 4.Toyota Townace，1723 5.Toyota Altis，1519 6.Toyota Yaris Cross，1509 7.MG HS，1160 8.Tesla Model Y，1054 9.Mitsubishi Veryca，853 10.Ford Focus，762 11.Toyota Vios，758 12.Nissan Kicks，745...

OT but related to competition and sort of stress relief: Trevor Milton has been sentenced today to 4 years in prison while prosecutors requested for 11, fined for $1M and potentially forced to forfeit his property. Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison for fraud

OT: Nasdaq announced on Friday evening LCID will be removed from NASDAQ 100 index prior to market open on Monday December 18. This index is the basis of Invesco QQQ. Source: Annual Changes to the Nasdaq-100 Index®

OT from the Cybertruck thread this has become, here is Taiwan's November sales figure Total sales: 43,566 1. Toyota Corolla Cross: 3621 2. Toyota RAV4: 2102 3. Honda CR-V: 2014 4. Toyota Yaris Cross: 1661 5. Toyota Altis: 1339 6. Mercedes-Benz GLC: 1220 7. MG HS: 1157 8. Lexus NX: 894 9. Tesla...

Happy Thanksgiving (USA), here is a funny OT on cybertruck knockoff at LA Autoshow. Look at this prototype's panel gap, you can fit a person's hand in the door gap!

Got an email from Tesla Policy Team to contact Canadian province British Columbia's Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, to congratulate on the passage of Zer Emission Vehicles Amendment Act British Columbia, Canada - Bill 39 This act was originally passed on May 30 2019, and it...

Just a short OT update on Lucid with their Q3 reprot out today. (sorry if this is not the place for it, or ensuing posts goes off rail). -2023 production guidance lowered from 10,000 to 8,000-8,500 (at beginning of year, guidance was 12,000 for 2023) -Loss $0.28/share on sale of $138M, beats...

October's new car sale datapoint from Taiwan. 1. Toyota Corolla Cross, 3078 2. Honda CR-V, 1668 3. Toyota RAV4, 1645 4. Toyota Yaris Cross, 1424 5. Toyota Altis, 1199 6. MG HS, 1036 7. Lexus NX, 884 8. Niussan X-trail, 871 9. Mercedes-Benz GLC, 811 10. Ford Focus, 799 11. MG ZS, 751 12. Honda...

For those holding out for a discount (like me), Walter Isaacson's Elon biography is now available with significant savings at Costco. Found this at it's BC Canada location for CAD $26.89

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Taiwan's EV sale figure for the first half year came out with good news for Tesla. This is according to stat from Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation. 1. Tesla Model Y, 5674, priced around NT$2,120,000 2. BMW iX, 1012, priced from NT$3,300,000 - 6,600,000 3. Tesla Model X, 861, (856 of them in...

Slightly changed your conversation with friend above.

Cory Steuben (ex-Murone) is on live Q&A with DirtyTesla:

So far today: TSLA -0.0039% LCID +6.39% RIVN +6.93% NKLA +8.19% RIDE +4.81% Blame it on market maker?

Lordstown filed for bankruptcy today Lordstown Motors files bankruptcy, sues Foxconn

An established Scotland Lordship title? They can be bought online at a very reasonable price of USD$41.99 with Father's Day sale. (google is your friend)

I am not sure if this is allowed, but saw someone on twitter mentioned this fun website: Tesla Price Target I like how the bottom/lowest price target list (guess who) has a clown emoji.

Elon interview today with VIVA Technology (edited with a different video link)

There is also a potential license/royalty fee that GM/Ford needs to pay Tesla for each car they build that uses NACS.

From Q&A, there are 2 points * Elon said it will be even level playing field between Tesla and non-Tesla owners using Supercharger network. So I take that has same charge $ rate. He said this is important to speed up transition to EV. * When asked about possibility of using CCS charger on new...

What the hell.... Mary Barra is how hosting Twitter space with Elon Musk on future of EV charting now. Seconding coming of Ford, announcing adopting to NACS? Edit: Elon kind of confirmed it:

What's going on, I do not see any positive catalyst after market closed today. Short covering?

I am going to put Ford announcing adopting North American Charging Standard (NACS) on my bingo card.

Autoline Network is currently doing a live show titled "The EV Transition: How Bad Will the Bloodbath Be?" I suggest start watching from beginning.

Jerome Powell got pranked by Russian thinking he was talking to Zelensky. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell pranked by Russians Sasha on YouTube gave his impression on the content of what Jerome revealed.

This is an interesting alignment chart

Saw this gem in my news feed this morning. Newsweek has awareded Akio Toyoda of Toyota "Auto Disruptor Executive of the Year". For some reason, I can't find a "Sponsored" tag anywhere in that article... strange. Some quotes: While most of the world's auto market is rushing to electric vehicles...

If you live in an appartment with dedicated electrical extension wired up to your space. You probably want to lock it up so you can keep your wall charger plugged to the outlet and keep it secured and not let other people use your charger while you pay the power bill.

Best selling (within Toyota's line up EV, constists of one only)j bZ4X.

Sasha posted video that explains a question that was raised in the last few days: Are our investment protected if broker collapses?

You are insulting goldfish. It was demonstrated Frederic (a goldfish) even outperformed NASDAQ and WallStreetBets.

Bank of Canada raises interest rate by 0.25% and will pause further raise to evaluate it's effect on inflation. Could be a good trend sign for US to follow. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-of-canada-january-rate-decision-1.6725283

Tomorrow stock jumps: damn, I should've bought all yesterday. Tomorrow stock tanks: damn, I should've waited until now.

Yeah, probaly a position in Investor Relations that manually verifys foreign holder's stock ownership. My account's preference still says "Your verification submission has been received" ever since I submitted it so long ago when Martin Viecha announced this option's availability.

There is a long running joke of how BMW's front grille will evolve larger over time. We now see patent on what the next iternation will look like via CarBuzz. BMW Invents Color-Changing Headlight Lenses That Hide In The Grille When car is off: On:

Perhaps for USA. However that's not the case in Canada. This is in my TD bank's trading platform: If you would like to sell a security to realize a capital gain or loss for tax purposes in 2022, the order would need to be filled no later than Wednesday, December 28, 2022 to settle on time.

Update for Tesla's sales in Taiwan. As of December 20th, there are 10,498 delivery for the year so far and becomes the first EV brand that broke 10k/year delivery figure. As for the rate of growth, it was 5,632 in 2021 and 5819 in 2020. For the month of December as of 20th, total delivery is...

Taiwan requires annual license tax and gas usage tax and currently EVs are excempted from both. Annual license tax's excempt however will expire by end of 2025. As for how much they are, it depends on engine displacement and very minuscule. For example 2401-3000cc has license tax NTD$15,210...

So, news came out of Taiwan that since Tesla starting to deliver Model Y on Dec 5th, there is a backlog of over 10k reservations and estimated to deliver 3000-4000 and up to 5000 Model Ys this month and potentially will take the 1st place in new car sales for December. Quoted from below news...

Semi delivery event stream:

Jeep joint venture in China files for bankruptcy. "Sales for the venture, which sold the Jeep Cherokee SUV and the Compass crossover, have been in sharp decline for the past four years. Sales fell by 50% in 2021 from the previous year to 20,396 vehicles. For 2022, it sold less than 2,000...

Wall Street execs already doing ketamine Stressed Wall Street execs flock to ketamine therapy sessions

Foxconn teaser of upcoming Model B reveal in 2 weeks. It's body is designed by Italian design firm Pininfarina.