They all thought Tesla would start advertising. nope.
Or they just assumed that Tesla would go bankrupt.
With Tesla disrupting the advertising incumbents, Tesla's disruption become the advertisers disruption (and demise).
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They all thought Tesla would start advertising. nope.
As ridiculous and pompous as he appears and as misleading and manipulative as he writes, he actually has a point with the above article.
Per Tesla's own information that he is citing, Supercharging can be quite expensive, e.g.
0.26 $/kWh in California,
Supercharging
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In the Munich Tesla store I was told 0.17 € / kWh, i.e. 0.085 € / kWh @ 120 kW.
Don't want to drag this out but if you want a real chuckle guess who was not only chancellor of the exchequer but on the Euro bank board too, yes little George ( Cameron's understrapper). Other wise known as " the GideoT"
Jeeze Putin is so far up Trump's ass it beggars belief. How long is American going to continue with this nonsense?
On topic: looks like colour options for S/X have been reduced, unless this was something happened earlier that I missed. I see this:
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So metallic black definitely gone now, maybe one more??
Media is far more concerned about Facebook and Google that are eating their lunch now to worry about something that might happen years down the road (and they would know this only if they were paying attention). The world doesn't revolve around Tesla.
Since you asked nicely-----
Ford under fire over grants payment
Car giant Ford has been criticised for accepting millions of pounds from UK taxpayers in the run-up to announcing the closure of its last British assembly plant, with the loss of 1,400 jobs.
PUBLISHED: 13:43, Tue, Nov 6, 2012
Production of Ford's Transit van will switch from Swaythling in Southampton to Turkey [PA]
The vehicle manufacturer received cash from the regional growth fund (RGF) to help develop its Dagenham base, and was given an £80 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for its factory in Turkey, before revealing it would shut its plant at Swaythling in Southampton.
You will think what you like, doesn't help with EU tinted specs, however Iwas talking about Transits/Ford/ sales/availability/ tie-up with Vw, with regard to the potential of Mr Trumps threatened trade embargo or worse. But as usual you preferred to take the Br/- it bait . This is not the place for Eu /Turkish politics we would be here for ever p.s. Shares up a little in the premarket[OT - delayed my reply to after market hours.]
I fact checked this conspiracy theory and the "EU bribed Ford to move production to Turkey" logic does not add up.
Here's the true history of that incident with Ford, Swaythling/UK and Turkey :
In 2010 Ford extended its plans for Swaythling until 2012 only:
Even back in 2010 it was characterized by the BBC as a "last outpost", and Ford themselves portrayed continuation as uncertain:
'Last outpost'
A Ford spokesman said: "The plan remains the same at Southampton but we are unsure when the next generation of Transit will come in which pushes production of the current panel vans beyond 2011 at the site.
As to the £80 million loan from the EIB: Ford getting the loan a couple of percent cheaper through the EIB was worth perhaps $10m in interest payments.
Do you really think that the European Union wanted to "bribe" Ford to remove this "last UK outpost" and move it to a country with much cheaper labor? With ... 10 million dollars?? I'm sorry, but that's a kindergarten level argument.
Or is it Ford, a large company worth tens of of billions of dollars, that gamed the system with skill, first collecting the maximum amounts of support from (desperate) local governments (under Tory leadership, mind you), and then by applying for an eligible loan at the EIB with a new Turkey site, conveniently not mentioning the political complications to the EIB that they are moving production from Swaythling to Turkey and the predictable political backlash the closure would generate?
Under what logic would the EU strive to achieve such an undesirable outcome?
Probably see $300 this week if we don’t get a date for Q4
however Iwas talking about Transits/Ford/ sales/availability/ tie-up with Vw, with regard to the potential of Mr Trumps threatened trade embargo or worse.
This vehicle was built here for many years until the EU in it's infinite wisdom "bribed" Ford to move it to Turkey as a sweetener prelude to EU entry which sadly didn't happen ( yet)
I'm not saying any of these claims should be taken seriously (I did some digging on the ICE efficiency, and the best I could find for automotive was 38.5% peak with a theoretical peak limit of 46% that varied with what you took for parameters, but a 60% theoretical limit for turbines) and am using them to demonstrate the grain of salt his claim about safety should be taken with.
M3 motors - wiring, chassis changes
If you decide to do half of these, you might as well incorporate 2170s (chassis changes (likely IMO), wiring changes plus cooling changes) where you get the real payback.
It would be nice if Tesla had heat pumps as they can potentially be more efficient than resistive heating but realistically you still need the resistive heaters for when the temperatures are too cold, beyond the working range of the heat pump system. LEAF and Prius both have heat pumps I believe.
I suppose such system may not be able to be scaled down effectively to be put on car, but I wonder what GM bolt do? One poster mentioned bolt only uses a heat pump.
Right off the bat, is he assuming a constant kW charge rate regardless of SoC? I love him.
But then I rewatched Ingineerix's review of the Model 3 cooling and refrigerant system.
I encourage everyone else to do the same,
When he says (at 0m45s) of the cooling system "the water can actually be cooler than ambient" (he goes on to correct his 'water' to 'glycol') that sounds a lot like the heat pump can move heat arbitrarily (as opposed to being limited so it according to some convention would be an air conditioner).
This is explained with some more details starting at 4m20s, basically the refrigerant system has two loops, a standard one for the A/C and a second one for extracting heat from the car's glycol-based cooling system.
I was replying to this conspiracy theory of yours:
And you posted that article as a reference during trading hours - but your conspiracy theory does not hold up, as I outlined in my previous reply.
41% peak for road-legal gasoline late intake valve closing ICE (Toyota M20A-FXS, A25A-FXS) has been achieved, and 50% peak for racing gasoline turbocharged ICE with energy recovery turbine (Mercedes M08 EQ Power+) has been achieved.
Note that these thermal efficiency figures do not include the ~15% losses while crude oil is refined, nor the energy cost of extracting and transporting crude - which can be as high as ~5%.
China welcomed him warmly.
China offers Elon Musk permanent residency
This article made me think.
Elon is real treasure for US economy, W.Street, US automotive future, space program...
What is the attitude of the environment to such treasure?
SEC business, mainstream attacks & FUD, analytical underestimation and defense of an existing business, bad financial support, shorters...dozen obstacles.
Elon has a choice now. He switched country before. He is pushed with all negativism towards China which might be good.
China welcomed him warmly.
Tesla is one thing, SpaceX is completely another dimension in geostrategy.
Think W.Street, think big guys what are you doing on long term! Think what you could lose. Just think! Are you capable to think?
FUDsters really working their magic today. Detroit Auto Show proves that EVs are the future. Traditional auto manufacturers basically admitting that Tesla is the company they want to emulate and that Tesla is far ahead of them. Traditional auto manufacturers also admitting that they will need to spend billions of dollars to TRY to catch up to Tesla, and then the traditional auto manufacturers make claims about possible future models, but they do not have any actual product yet to truly directly compete with Tesla. Yet, Tesla, which has the mass market car, has the high-end car, has an amazing SUV, has a charging network in place, now seems to know how to mass produce a relatively moderately priced EV, is selling tens of thousands of cars each month, has actually shown some great future products, etc, gets hammered in the markets. If one looks at the news coming out of Detroit, seem like the arguments that the shorts and media have been using against Tesla actually apply to the traditional auto manufacturers. Yet, somehow the FUDsters have managed to get headlines (which get picked up by the algos) and spin the news in a way that is a positive for the traditional auto manufacturers and a negative for Tesla. Just when I thought I had seen everything from these charlatans . . .
... and Nissan (Infinity) entrant is DOA.
Well, its been DOA from 2013 when they showed a prototype. More than anything else, this shows they couldn't compete with Tesla.
Just for the record, in case someone missed the news -- via @ValueAnalyst on twitter here is VGrinshpun linking to cnbc:
Vladimir Grinshpun @VGrinshpun
$TSLA Where is $TSLAQ Potemkin Village team when one needs them? Executives pulled the plug on Infiniti QX Inspiration () after technicians apparently failed to revive it so it can be driven on the stage.