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@MelvinLee owning 5 teslas...ok sure...Put the pipe down. So Tesla loses money so do the Japanese automakers, so does VW in most years, so has GM and Ford. Despite this Tesla market cap has gone from nothing to exceeding Ford's market cap by 5-6 billion. They are approaching GM's market cap and in a few years at current rates will exceed Porsche's parent VW. You sound like a walmart fanboy who did not like amazon. Amazon still hasn't really made a profit. As soon as they want to they can. Tesla is really a very young company and as soon as uber is gone they'll walk right into that marketcap as well. Everyone knows it and everyone also knows VW won't be able to do it. All they can do is to try to stall Tesla with FUD.
Tesla Market Cap (THE VALUE OF THE COMPANY) is over 1/2 that of VW already. BECAUSE ...VW is a work employment scheme not a car company. Porsche is just a tiny lux handbag division of an employment scheme. It must drive that family crazy. Couldn't happen to a better (worse) family.
VW makes cars so they can employ german workers. Nothing more or less. They need to make lots of cars to employ lots of workers. Thus, they hate Tesla and the dream of an efficient and environmentally friendly transportation network. We have probably 300% more cars than needed. To add trouble on trouble a teslas long term operating cost is a fraction of an ICE (how big a fraction depends on comparing to a Merc or a Honda). Those costs were more workers for germany and reducing that means even less workers for Germany. German car makers are among the most heavily subsidized in the world and built wonderfully engineered antiques. They are antiques and you get to witness the process of ICE dying off. Lucky you and us. Put the crack pipe down or the PR Troll keyboard down and find something useful and enjoy the ride.
You ever wonder why the Japanese don't get hungup like VW ? Because the Japanese are competing for marketshare not employment. Neither German nor Japanese car makers compete for profit but it is why Japanese made cars work so much better than a german car. They make cars the average person wants to own, low cost of ownership, predictable repairs, etc. My honda just got sold with 300k miles and hardly any repairs and I did the regular stuff myself like a battery, headlights, brake pads. A porsche with 300k miles would have had garage costs so great I could have bought another honda.
