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Normal seasonality to Tesla sales. It will pick over the course of the year. Even more so as people start getting vaccinated and are ready to replace vehicles. A lot of people like myself deferred car purchases due to covid.

I thought California was evil and we should all move to Texas? :p

Everyone's personal situation is different. Plus, some folks are up between 10x to 200x simply by holding shares. So selling a little here isn't necessarily a big deal.

Put a limit order for $675 just before close and it executed at 695. Trivial number of shares sold though.

Exactly. It would look like corporate welfare for the democrats to subsidize the largest car maker on planet earth. Even on the remote chance it were to happen, Tesla would just raise all the prices overnight. They aren't going to leave money on the table when they are still production...

All the one's coming out of the factory today are marked as 2021s. They will just be adding stuff throughout the year on most of their vehicles for 2021 marked vehicles. Do your research on what is currently offered at the corresponding price and whether you would be extremely happy with it or...

Exactly. A Model Year doesn't necessarily guarantee that a Tesla will have specific updates. Probably has to be tracked by build date or vin if you are looking for something specific. Tesla rolls things out whenever they are ready. There will likely be more Model 3 changes coming for...

A true model year from a legacy manufacturer involves a fixed rollout of new features each year that correspond to that model year changeover. Tesla doesn't do that. The model year is arbitrary for Tesla since they make changes as they go every month. The last 2020 Model Y rolled off the...

Tesla is already the largest automaker on planet earth multiple times over by market cap. Not sure how any politician would be able to sell another US Federal tax credit specifically helping Tesla. Tesla literally proves that the EV tax credit program worked as intended and they no longer need...

Get your Tesla Delivery Inspection Checklists ready. If Tesla thought customers were being paranoid about noting problems at delivery, then they haven't anything yet....

general rule of thumb is to avoid the first year of production for any new vehicle. It is kind of arbitrary, but as a potential used car buyer I would be more mindful of that than whether a Model Y was built in 8/2020 or 10/2020 which technically spans two different "Model Years".

Does this even matter for the Model Y. Resale values currently should be affected by the fact that Model Y is still in the first year of production. Wouldn't that affect resale more? Let's say i'm in the market three years from now, I would personally avoid a used Model Y built anywhere in...

i'm not in opposition. Most people would prioritize improvements to the vehicle which is figured out by Build Date for a Tesla. The Model Year doesn't tell you that on a Tesla so it obviously becomes less important. There's no acknowledgment of build date in your poll...

The premise of your poll is wrong by focusing on Model Year. Build Date matters more than Model Year for Teslas when a customer may be interested in looking for specific updates to tech, packages, interior updates, color changes, etc. The rest of the stuff like insurance and resale is...

a lot more customers than you think don't like attaching anything to the bumper. People are even willing to pay fines when front license is required by their state. Just look at all the obsessiveness with paint protection films that go into the thousands of dollars. People can be very picky.

Funny how there is no rhyme or reason as I believe the Model 3 and Y use the same AtlasBx battery. AtlasBx is owned by Hankook and makes ACDelco batteries in Korea as well. I'm hoping the added volume for the battery with the 3 and Y will get a lot of other 12v battery manufacturers...

Tesla doesn't have true model years. The Model 3 updates are coincidental with the changover from 2020 to 2021. With a new vehicle like the Model Y, Tesla is making changes every month. Many are just not visible.

Here's what i see mentioned in the article that rumored to be coming to the Model 3: chrome delete to the exterior trims powered trunk gate, like in the Model Y. new upholstery on the top of the vehicle with what appears to be slightly darker material completely different center console...

Why drag investors into this all? Even employees are investors too. Why not put out a detailed plan with whatever criteria and try to make this a realistic discussion about Fremont opening up? How does tanking the stock on purpose do that? instead he pushes out conspiracy theories. Wasn't...

If it was just volatility, i could understand. Except, Elon's going out of his way and doing it on purpose. supporting all these conspiracy theorists and going out of your way to attack the company. Just because he's in a dispute with Bay Area authorities? seems a bit much.

I'm guessing in his mind Fremont should be operational no matter the cost.

I was feeling uneasy since the conference call. I thought about it in the $800s, but figured he would pull it together. The problem right now is that there is literally nobody in his orbit to de-escalate this. Just tells you how little regard he has for a "sustainable" future if he's...

sold a little over 3/4 of my shares. Covid-19 was stressful enough as it is. Never sold a share since I started accumulating.... Until now

everyone still happy with Elon's tweeting? Elon just being Elon?

That plant seems like it is in the middle of nowhere. Tyson even claimed they were doing a lot of the worker protections that Elon plans to do at Fremont:

Einhorn would have to matter for the auditors to take notice. They are not going to care about some short conspiracy of the day.

My local bank has taken more precautions than US airlines and they only do drive thru banking. This is what happens when there is so little national coordination.

Now roll this out in a 200 mile radius around the Fremont factory.

because it isn't realistic? I don't see how the CA governor would let this go on far longer in the Bay Area vs the rest of California. The Bay Area isn't the only population center.

even if the Bay area is a week or two behind, is it really enough to make it seem like this is the end of the world? I get he's frustrated, but this does not seem like the most productive way of coming up with a resolution.

Nobody is waiting until there is a vaccine. California is doing a phased opening based on getting testing, PPE, etc ramped up to support all these businesses that will be opening. It doesn't seem unreasonable after i read it. Definitely not "fascist" Coronavirus: California Gov. Gavin...

we can't leave our house anymore? that's not even factual. elon seriously....

Did Tesla furlough all the engineering teams along with manufacturing? I thought some portion might be able to work from home.

It never got to the point where Tesla had to manage an outbreak due China's response to the virus. China quarantined all workers before they were able to come back to that area of China. We don't have that kind of response in the USA. We can't even ramp testing or get adequate enough...

It wasn't posted because it's brand new information. I saw articles about the study this morning, but I don't think there was anything that said they were going to act on it yet. Until now.

one store finally figured it out....

the american public would have to be pretty stupid at this point to buy any of this garbage. We are back to disinfectant levels of idiocy again.

Trump says US will be able to run 5 million coronavirus tests per day 'very soon,' despite shortages across states What has this guy been smoking? We spent most of April around 150k per day and somehow we are going to do 30 times that "very soon"? Fauci was praying for around 500k per day...

Worldometers is currently showing 2,456 deaths in the USA for today. My 2k guess was way off. Jumped sizably in 2 hours.

how do you go through a development program and not have use for a skateboard platform EV? I can't see it is a a positive for Rivian since the Ford deal likely lowered their costs. The big question I have now is whether Rivian has something they can even deliver for Amazon...

so 2k deaths in the USA today? I think Worldometers resets in 2 hours since it's on GMT. I guess it's progress if we average with the last two days.

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the comments indicate that Tesla will move forward with temporary permits.

I think they may be purposefully being vague so they don't have to get pinned down to any number, but I don't see how you have a coordinated nationwide response if you don't set some goals. I guess that is the whole point, muddy the progress enough so that you can spin it however you want.

Detroit auto makers aim to reopen factories May 18 Detroit automakers in Michigan worked out a deal with the Governor for May 18th. Hopefully there is some clear pathway like that for Tesla as well in California.

American Airlines will give face masks to passengers, require them for flight attendants amid coronavirus First US airline to figure out that passengers might need masks. Delta is mentioned in the article, but only employees will be required to wear masks.

Trump White House vows to double coronavirus testing in May in push to reopen the economy so 4 million in April is about 133k per day. Doubling that would only get us to 266k per day, but Fauci indicated he wanted in the neighborhood of 500k per day. They are already in the low to mid 200k...

There were no cases of covid-19 in the lingang area of China or at the Shanghai factory. That argument might have made sense in March, but the USA is entirely different than China now. We have far more community spread so the rules are going to be much more restrictive here and likely slow...

Elon has been a case of the good far outweighing the bad. I just ignore his coronavirus theories at this point. A lot of the analysis is going to be retrospective anyways. That's the only way I can reconcile it at this point.

data is lumpy. I'm not sure i would draw too many conclusions based on one day.