The Chinese and European economies were never that strong to begin with. In fact, demand for a lot of things was never that strong to begin with. There was never enough "demand" to justify the price oil and gas were at.
Overall I tend to agree-expect it will be the safest pickup on the road. Especially regarding number 3. Perhaps even more than impact protection it offers pedestrians, the sloped nose offers far better visibility in urban situations than a conventional pickup/SUV. The high nose of a conventional P/U can hide pedestrians/bicyclists. The only negative I see is for rural drivers. The high hood of a conventional pickup offers considerable protection in the event of striking an animal. A sloped hood of a typical car (or potentially CT) scoops up a deer/cow/moose and puts it in your front seat. The flat, high face of a pickup offers better protection by impacting the animal and either bouncing it off or riding over it. Granted, modern pickups aren't that "tough" in the front and do have a tendency to collapse in an impact, but still provide better protection than a sloped nose.
Nice. Whatever reverse psychology, market psy ops you're cooking up, please keep it up!And of course.........wake up me when TSLA actually outperforms on a macro rally up day
Clearly not going above 280 this week.
Btw, just a friendly fyi, if anyone here is in Nio as an investment......I'd get out. God awful earnings
This is purely an unwinding of price gouging futures trading aided by a willing press.
Doesn't matter in the US. We allow people to buy large pickups, stick huge stainless steel bumper guards on the front, and lift them so that they run right over other drivers or force pedestrians directly into the steel bumper.If your head hits the hood, it makes a big difference how hard it is. Euro NCAP even maps that:
That said, we can definitely agree that no impact is best and Tesla is improving rapidly on active collision avoidance - this is also from the recent tests with Model Y:
They do the same to pedestrians.
16% positive gross margins. I don't invest in Nio but no where close at being the dumpster fire Rivian and Lucid are.And of course.........wake up me when TSLA actually outperforms on a macro rally up day
Clearly not going above 280 this week.
Btw, just a friendly fyi, if anyone here is in Nio as an investment......I'd get out. God awful earnings
You'd think traders would be eating MM's alive with this predictable SP action.And of course.........wake up me when TSLA actually outperforms on a macro rally up day
Clearly not going above 280 this week.
Btw, just a friendly fyi, if anyone here is in Nio as an investment......I'd get out. God awful earnings
True, a sloped nose can put a pedestrian right through your windshield as well, putting you at increased risk. Lets try to make sure that doesn't happen too often, shall we? Fortunately I've never hit a pedestrian, but have tagged a few deer and had some very close calls with moose and cattle.
Gross margins were 13%.....down from 14.6% in the previous quarter. In fact, Nio's gross margins topped at 19% a year and a half ago and have been in steady decline since, even though production is higher. That should not be happening.
You think underperforming its beta on a macro up day is a positive thing???
Trading action today just confirms what I thought of yesterday's trading action. That outperformance was nothing more than technical trading and MM's. You're better off just hoping the macro's tank because at least there's incentive for MM's to support the stock.Even traders are bored with TSLA
There's like zero actual buying/selling in the trading action. Volume continues to be anemic.
We implemented this when we did AEB (2014) and the body controls team did the same when airbags deploy. The mothership is immediately notified and a few frames from the incident are stored locally if needed (I'm sure this is much more robust now).
Nothing could be more perfect right now. Slow moves up from MM's while oil & gas absolutely plummets.Even traders are bored with TSLA
I'm just riding the surf like most of us here. You should bottle up that angst and sell it. You could call it Ode de options losses. Hang in there- it'll all work out.You think underperforming its beta on a macro up day is a positive thing???
And before anyone says anything.................yes my expectations are that TSLA's valuation is a joke and every single day of underperformance is a joke until TSLA's valuation isn't.......such a joke
Even traders are bored with TSLA
That's the problem with a car-that secondary impact with the less sloped windshield means the windshield will most likely fail and put that critter right in your lap. With CT, the continuous slope of the hood/windshield line means the hood will impart an upward velocity vector to the animal, and that there is at least a chance it will just slide up and over the windshield. I'd prefer not to test that, but it won't be long before it is. In many rural areas, animal strikes are nearly inevitable given the number of deer around and their suicidal tendencies. Honestly, striking animals and evaluation of the protection a vehicle offers drivers/passengers should be a required part of NHTSA safety testing. For much of the country, that's a far higher likelihood than striking a pedestrian, and usually occurs at higher speed.
I'm a very patient person. I have no reason or need to sell my shares for the next few years.
