Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

[JRP3]

Striking a tempered glass surface with a blunt object probably will not use it to shatter.

True, a friend of mine picked up a big rock and threw it hard at a rear side window, the rock bounced off and flew maybe 10ft almost hitting another friend who had his back turned, unaware of what was happening. Took a few more tries to actually break the window. (No, we were not hoodlums, we were trying to pass a chain through the vehicle so I could pick it up with my backhoe and put it on a scrap trailer).

 

[qunqun]

Is that fog or pollution?

He said "fog"

 

[KarenRei]

They are so dead!

Be polite

Clear, explicit, and cut them no slack.... but politely

Don't forget to vote up questions that you want to see them answer.

 

[immunogold]

I was an EMT in college 25 years ago. We all carried a device like this one - the size of a ball point pen, spring loaded. It shatters a side window with ease.

Window Punch with Pocket Clip | Med Lab Supply

 

[lklundin]

So the police don’t have a way to break the glass?

Maybe a 5$ baton is a more useful weapon than a 500 $ taser...

 

[Joe F]

5 big 24K blocks of bullish buys at the close, totaling 116k shares at $298.77! Hmmm...

 

[aubreymcfato]

BTW,
in 2018 Norway sold
S X
Jan 115 105
Feb 39 55

In 2019 this is:
S X
Jan 22 153
Feb 42 90

So you see that in Jan 2019 Model S sales were low (likely osborned by 3s), but X sales are constantly increasing.
And I'm not talking about the over 473 model 3 they already sold...

 

[Mobius484]

I tend towards optimism, but today was good day. The fact it resisted the mild fade into close was nice. Lots of FUD today. How little the response of the stock to the fiery crash in linnettes prominently displayed article in my news feed... maybe we’re getting somewhere....

 

[AMN]

Be polite

Clear, explicit, and cut them no slack.... but politely

Don't forget to vote up questions that you want to see them answer.

Of course. I will make the murder look like an accident. They will never find the body.

 

[lklundin]

Um... don't police officers in the US have... you know... guns?

Even if they can't physically break the glass with the barrel, can't they... you know, shoot it out?

Aren't they trained to shoot guns accurately enough so as not to accidentally shoot a person who's not moving, from point blank range? I mean, even a Star Wars storm trooper isn't that bad of a shot...

Discharging a firearm into a vehicle where an accident has caused the cabin to be (partly) obscured by airbags and which may have placed passengers in unexpected locations is hardly helpful.

In fact, forcing a door open by shooting is reliable only with a shotgun against a not too strong (wood/glass) door (since the material around the lock and/or hinges can be weakened) and is generally only done when lethal force against anyone on the other side is justified.

Unlike glas in special effects in film the safety glass of the vehicle will hold well and generally just be punctured by e.g. several 9mm bullets.

If no suitable tool is available, a spent fire extinguisher or a jack could be beaten against the glass.

 

[EVNow]

5 big 24K blocks of bullish buys at the close, totaling 116k shares at $298.77! Hmmm...

I think stupid money is selling at below 300. Institutions are slowly adding. I mean why would any short sell are 292 instead of waiting for the stock to go up ?

 

[STARR X]

I guess a problem with a semi

While inevitable, this is kind of sad for me. Our Volt has served us extremely well in the 6 years we have had it. When we bought our Model 3 the Volt went to my oldest son who continues to use it as his daily driver with virtually no problems (aside from the 25% degradation we have seen over the years).The Volt was a fabulous car and served as a great transition vehicle to bridge the gap to full electric power. It was probably the best thing Bob Lutz ever did for GM. I'll give him that but not much else. lol!

Dan

I'm guessing they will bring the Volt back out as a bev. Too good of a name to have go to the dust bin.

 

[anthonyj]

Was just at my Tesla store/SC. They had lots of coffee cup lids. Pretty bearish. Usually there are no lids.

 

[Unpilot]

Did you get one of these?

 

[Cherry Wine]

I'm considering buying a few "lotto ticket" calls this Thursday or Friday, likely in the ~$320 strike range for 3/8 or 3/15 exp, banking on a rise post 3/1. Anyone else thinking similarly?

 

[AlexS]

I don't know if already posted, but here is one longer video of the fire:

 

[Antonio Wooman]

Elon Musk on Twitter

"Fate *loves* irony. Frankly, too much."

$420 value to go private confirmed?

 

[VValleyEV]

In my retirement I drive little more than 2000 miles per year. I would not want to be taxed as much as those who drive much more. If that were done, it would be a disincentive for low mileage drivers to buy an electric car. If mileage is recorded by a car's internal computer, with over-the-air accessibility by the manufacturer, I can see a government mandating that that information be shared with them. Then we could be taxed based on actual mileage. It's no more an invasion of privacy than our stock brokerage being required to send information about our trading to the IRS.

So why not a tax computed by a percentage of the power you purchase to charge your car away from home? Nicely incentivizes folks to use home charging, which I like, proportional to the long-distance driving that you do, and very similar to the gasoline tax except by using a percentage it will stay up with inflation. For maintenance of roads close to home, could include a modest flat tax per year.

 

[lklundin]

Ah, PETA....

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Reminds me of the Q&A where the PETA person asked if Tesla would also use their vegan solution on the gear stick, so the 'engine' was quite possibly not just a superficial word confusion.

 

[Antonio Wooman]

Electrek: Clock is ticking on Gigafactory 3 construction