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Yeah agreed especially the last version. She wanted a big car and working for Ford the cars were provided dirt cheap. We did not have much choice.

I always got a Sierra or Escort Cosworth. Smaller and more maneuverable but not cheap to buy. These were great performance cars at the time but no where near my Model 3 Performance.

The point is the market is quite different in EU at least from size perspective so a compact Tesla is necessary at some point. Not to go downmarket as people think of as a small car in the US, but just to to able to park and maneuver it. In other words the motivation for buying small is not always to save money.

Ha! I had a Sierra Sapphire Cosworth in the early 90's - they were dirt-cheap in the UK due to outrageous insurance costs. I bought from a colleague who had owned from new, a Sunday morning only car, with 15k miles on the clock, mint condition for £350. I doubled the mileage, then sold it a year later for £4500, the maintenance was beginning to pile-up, it needed a new head-gasket and that was quite an expensive job, which I couldn't really afford at the time.

Spend the money instead on a Ducati 900SL, damn that was a beautiful bike and sounded like thunder with the illegal carbon-fibre pipes.
 
I have a couple of calls that changed to something that’s probably the post-split price, causing a big drop in my portfolio value.
BTW: Keytrade has a link (in your ‘history’ iirc) to download the previous day portfolio composition and value as a PDF, I guess that’s more usable than a screenshot.

Yeah, done all that... Nothing changed for me.

Note that the "previous day portfolio" isn't always correct - for me it shows -3 c4000, whereas it should be -5

A bit worrying that "some" calls adapted, not all, TBH I would have expected this to be an overnight batch conversion, can't be that hard, surely...?
 
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Food for Thought ... from @JPR007 ... makes a case justifying a SP of $3442 in 2020 (thread).

https://twitter.com/jpr007/status/1299926974056423427


And this still assumes that growth in 2021 and 2022 will be 50%. It seems to me that growth in both years will be 100% (so greater than 1 million production in 2021 and 2 million in 2022). This we can predict reasonably accurately from the progress in Shanghai, Berlin and Austin and that Tesla will be production constrained with Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck, especially with expected cost reductions due to economies of scale, learning curve and localised production.

If we assume higher growth for the next two years then reverting to 50% growth, then we get his predictions pulled forward by about 1.5 years, to mid 2026.

What this means for the share price is that the discounted price would be above $2000 at 10x P/E multiple, at higher multiples (a case can be made for 50x P/E multiple) this could lead to share prices all the way up to $10,000.

This seems incredible, perhaps I have made a mistake (?!?!).
 
So far my chairs haven’t been replaced by 5 times as many stools yet. (The monetary amount is now ten times as many dimes though.)

if the S&P requested a secondary offering and wanted a dollar amount for the secondary offering, the stock split was a brilliant move. Less dilution that way and the index funds will have to buy even more Chairs/stools because of the increased market cap

if I were the S&P, I’d include Tesla in four equal tranches.
 
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James May posted this 3days ago and it already got 600k views.
Closing remark:
“That is the 6 things I don’t like about my Tesla Model S 100d long range, there are also 2837 things I LOVE.”

The six complaints (seriously!!):

1) it's dirty, it was clean when it was new
2) the door-handles aren't auto-presenting (he needs to press them) - surely a fault for SC to resolve?
3) the car switches off to quickly when you get out, it should stay-alive for a while - I agree, I'd also like a grace-period for entering the PIN code
4) the beep when you close the trunk is too loud -I agree with this, it's awful on the Mdodel S, Model X is much nicer
5) the graphics of the "MODEL S" and "P100D" badging is ugly - he has a point
6) a "clonking" sound from the rear suspension - might want to get that checked, with my P85 I had weird noises from the rear (my rear sometimes on wet roads!!) and it was the drive-unit failing
 
My trading account (Germany) does the same :eek::D... Amazing how badly such an event is handled by the banking software. Almost tempted to sell some... But I guess the trade only goes through tomorrow at the lower price anyway.
Hah! That's nothing! How's this for an attempted fraud? (personal details redacted)

Begin forwarded message:

From: Qtrade Investor
Date: August 28, 2020
To: REDACTED
Subject: Apple Inc. and Tesla Inc. share splits Monday, August 31
Reply-To: Qtrade Investor <[email protected]>

As you are likely aware, your Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares will be splitting 4:1, and Tesla Inc. (TSLA) shares will be splitting 5:1, as of Monday, August 31, 2020. They will begin trading on a post-split basis on that date. The holdings in your account will not reflect the new share positions for about four or five business days while we await delivery of the new shares from the transfer agent.

Please be aware that any open orders will be cancelled by the Exchange.

Because the split is taking place at month end, we are taking extra measures to ensure your month-end statement continues to be as accurate as possible. To achieve this, we will add a temporary position to your account on Wednesday, September 2 (valued as of August 31) reflecting the additional shares you are scheduled to receive as a result of the split. These temporary shares will be removed once the new shares are received from the transfer agent.

The temporary position cannot be sold online, but if you do wish to sell the anticipated total number of shares, please contact us directly by phone at 1.877.787.2330. Unlike sell orders, new purchase orders can still be processed online as usual.

If you have questions related to this stock split, please let us know.

Regards,
Qtrade Investor

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Imma say, it's easy to see who the bad actors are now. "Phone us if you need to sell". This brokerage is obviously hoping to buy shares beginning Monday morning to replace the ones they should be receiving from the Transfer Agent. Would have too, if their 'sold' share count matched the records at the Transfer Agent...

And what's this new B.S. about "Temporary Shares" that you can't sell online? This Broker is quite obviously trying to ration out the few real shares they actually hold (obviously way less than 20% of their obligations to "beneficial holders"). Is this funny money? Why don't they just pay in Reichsmarks? I hear they're plentiful now. :p

Cheers!
 
Food for Thought ... from @JPR007 ... makes a case justifying a SP of $3442 in 2020 (thread).

https://twitter.com/jpr007/status/1299926974056423427
I mean, this implies that Tesla will literally be selling 50 million cars a year by 2040. That would make Tesla not only the largest company on Earth, but larger than all other companies on Earth combined. This is quite the fantasy he is projecting, I think it would be safe to say that Tesla would need to be operating over 100,000 service centers around the world at that point. The sheer scale of this theory is not really imaginable, I guess this is why traditional automakers farm out service and support to dealerships.
 
It's a hard life. Max Pain is now $200 with a stock price of $2,217.25 over at

Stock Option Max Pain

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Just a minor correction, the AC to DC rectifier in the current fleet is not capable of bidirectional flow. But the DC to DC circuits used for Supercharging are capable of bidirectional flow. This wouldn't allow a vehicle from the current fleet to operate as a Powerwall by itself, but if Tesla were to design a DC charger (a relatively slow home Supercharger) with a built-in inverter, the current fleet could be used for V2G.

And the external inverter is actually how all current V2G pilots work. The only issue is that these external inverters are relatively expensive (~$4,000). For e.g. Wallbox Quasar bidirectional home DC charger will turn EVs into a huge Tesla Powerwall - Electrek
The other issue is that they would have to be able to detect a power outage and cut off the utility power so there would be no possibility of sending power to the offline grid.
 
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Yeah, done all that... Nothing changed for me.

Note that the "previous day portfolio" isn't always correct - for me it shows -3 c4000, whereas it should be -5

A bit worrying that "some" calls adapted, not all, TBH I would have expected this to be an overnight batch conversion, can't be that hard, surely...?
When your systems are still using tape drives, it takes a while.
 
I mean, this implies that Tesla will literally be selling 50 million cars a year by 2040. That would make Tesla not only the largest company on Earth, but larger than all other companies on Earth combined. This is quite the fantasy he is projecting, I think it would be safe to say that Tesla would need to be operating over 100,000 service centers around the world at that point. The sheer scale of this theory is not really imaginable, I guess this is why traditional automakers farm out service and support to dealerships.

Any projection this far out is pure speculation. Actually, any projection beyond the FSD singularity is entirely useless; only it's anybody's guess when that will happen. At times it feels like half of the posts are about timeline for FSD and I hope that I don't kick off another avalanche on this topic. However, it happens to be the biggest wildcard in the valuation of TSLA and I feel compelled to at least frame it.
Looking back at the H/W 20 years ago, the typical PC had 128 MB RAM and would have a hard time competing against a modern smartphone. It needs the pessimism of a TSLAQer to assume that another 20 years of advancements won't get us there. AP1 was released 6 years ago. Comparing that against today's system capabilities, did we make it more than half way to FSD? I don't have firsthand experience with AP1 but to me, it certainly feels so. What are the chances that cars will make the daily commute without intervention four times a week before 2022? That's literally the Million dollar question to me. Because it doesn't really matter if it takes another year or five to hunt down the tail of 9s from there on. The market will start to give FSD a greater-then-zero valuation and all bets are off at that point.

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I don't like clickbaits regardless of topic. Maybe it's just me.
Yes, click-bait and yes, it sucks. But this Tesla click-baiting is getting so long in the tooth that it is already backfiring and/or loosing any negative power it might had had a few months back.
We are stepping into a-boy-who-cried-wolf territory. This makes Tesla even less vulnerable to the real issues that might rise and get all the headlines with little consequences to the brand.