Forget the car. Elon just came up with another big market disruption - storage. Who uses their garage for cars anyway?
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Forget the car. Elon just came up with another big market disruption - storage. Who uses their garage for cars anyway?
Driver Dave
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This is the main problem with the most of the press.
You really can't conceive how different Tesla is right now until you buy and own and drive one.
It is like trying to write about an iPhone while having only used a flip phone.
"How does one fold this phone with this big screen!?! This will never work!!"
The majority of the press, and thus the majority of the public, have absolutely no idea what's going on.
TSLA Long: It's obvious... to those driving them right now.
larmor
Active Member
a product such as a car elevator which people would pay money to have installed is not a good business idea. I know this because the market has shown me that even though Tesla makes high-end expensive cars which have a waitlist to obtain, that is not the pathway to make a company profitable. The pathway ahead is clear open more gas stations. And cell phone and laptop charging stations at the gas stations. Just saying...
Anstandswauwau
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Never sat in a Tesla once – let alone drive one (waiting for M3P test drives!) – yet TSLA is by far the largest position in my portfolio
So that can't be the reason why people are not getting it.
People don't get Tesla because they're stuck in old thinking patterns.
I think the Boring garage elevator is just a convenient available property to place a connection to this end of the tunnel. If there had been a parking lot to buy, they would have used that. They're demolishing the garage and building a new one anyways.
So, ignore that it happens to come up in a house's garage, this is a red herring. Tunneling through neighborhoods to have private tunnel access will never be a reasonable thing to do, they're not trying to demonstrate the ability (even if technically possible) of having a secret entrance to your super villain/hero lair.
I do expect them to use it for demonstrations though, just with only a single car load at a time (versus Dugout which will be a larger scale demo).
So, ignore that it happens to come up in a house's garage, this is a red herring. Tunneling through neighborhoods to have private tunnel access will never be a reasonable thing to do, they're not trying to demonstrate the ability (even if technically possible) of having a secret entrance to your super villain/hero lair.
I do expect them to use it for demonstrations though, just with only a single car load at a time (versus Dugout which will be a larger scale demo).
This is a interesting tidbit from the Wards Auto article:
As part of my job I test drive about 100 new cars a year, from entry-level economy boxes, to blisteringly fast sports cars, to the toniest of luxury sedans. Unfortunately, Tesla does not make its cars available for test drives to members of the automotive media like me. I think the company is missing out on a huge opportunity. If other automotive journalists got to experience a Tesla like I did, it would likely generate a new group of enthusiastic supporters.
Source: How I Drank the Tesla Kool-Aid and Became a Believer
This reminds me a quote about two Italian newspapers:
La Repubblica sells 200k copies every day. Il Foglio sells 2k, but everyone weights like a stone.
It really matter *which* people you are trying to convince.
A few loaners could help convince some key, vocal people in the auto industry, and help tame the FUD, which in turn will help the stock price.
As part of my job I test drive about 100 new cars a year, from entry-level economy boxes, to blisteringly fast sports cars, to the toniest of luxury sedans. Unfortunately, Tesla does not make its cars available for test drives to members of the automotive media like me. I think the company is missing out on a huge opportunity. If other automotive journalists got to experience a Tesla like I did, it would likely generate a new group of enthusiastic supporters.
Source: How I Drank the Tesla Kool-Aid and Became a Believer
This reminds me a quote about two Italian newspapers:
La Repubblica sells 200k copies every day. Il Foglio sells 2k, but everyone weights like a stone.
It really matter *which* people you are trying to convince.
A few loaners could help convince some key, vocal people in the auto industry, and help tame the FUD, which in turn will help the stock price.
While they are production limited, it doesn't matter. and when production approaches (current) demand, this is one of the knobs that can be turned to increase demand.
I don't think about this as a demand lever, but as a anti-FUD lever. It'd directed to those at WS.
No matter how good the car, won't stop the fud. If it did, after Roadster, S & X, fud would have stopped already.
RobStark
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Why Tesla Is Hip-Hop’s Car of Choice | Pitchfork
Where other luxury cars merely speak to a rapper’s wealth, a Tesla speaks to their vision.
Where other luxury cars merely speak to a rapper’s wealth, a Tesla speaks to their vision.
Buddyroe
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JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Interesting but the author takes a giant leap with this one:
No one took her ramblings seriously.
jhm
Well-Known Member
Wow, you know, when Wood Mac estimates a 10X growth in the span of 5 years, they are at pains to be conservative and underestimate what is really going on.
Nothing like a massive storm in the news to reinforce the value of back up power.
RobStark
Well-Known Member
I think Sheldon Pearce has some insight into Hip Hip culture.
I don't think anyone looks at Pearce or Pitchfork for stock/industry analysis or any kind of business news.
Game over as far the shorts instigating the institutional investors to oust Musk.
Worth watching the video of the interview.
James Anderson: ‘vicious’ short sellers are Tesla’s big problem, not Elon Musk
Edit: Holy moly! Baillie Gifford FM refers to Jim Chanos' scumbaggery, covered extensively by @jesselivenomore and @TeslaPodcast here.. Bravo!
Worth watching the video of the interview.
James Anderson: ‘vicious’ short sellers are Tesla’s big problem, not Elon Musk
Edit: Holy moly! Baillie Gifford FM refers to Jim Chanos' scumbaggery, covered extensively by @jesselivenomore and @TeslaPodcast here.. Bravo!
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Just as I bought a few hundred shares of NIO, which is tiny compared to my TSLA holdings , my guess the shorts will also play with NIO not in place of TSLA but as a side hobby.
NIO stock thread
Zhelko Dimic
Careful bull
Wow, wow, wow.Game over as far the shorts instigating the institutional investors to oust Musk.
Worth watching the video of the interview.
James Anderson: ‘vicious’ short sellers are Tesla’s big problem, not Elon Musk
Edit: Holy moly! Baillie Gifford FM refers to Jim Chanos' scumbaggery, covered extensively by @jesselivenomore and @TeslaPodcast here.. Bravo!
That interview is something.
I am glad James Anderson is in our corner and not against us, that man is scary!
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