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

[KarenRei]

Indeed. I think I'd rather push my car to the next supercharger than go through the nonsense of using the ecotricity network...

Unfortunately, in Iceland we're going to be stuck using the terrible ON network to get to all the locations "off the Ring road" for quite some time. Hopefully closing the Ring Road itself won't take too long. It's critical that they remember to take into account that the high-altitude places have much worse weather than the low-altitude places (for long chunks of the year, due to our low difference between summer and winter temperatures), and thus require closer spacing. Also to remember that such places have zero electricity - not even a farmhouse - en route for long distances (sometimes >100km), so not encouraging people to "press their luck" with long charger spacing is critical.

ON is "50kW" (eg <= 40kW), expensive, unreliable, and often overloaded.

 

[FreqFlyer]

The Flugpatz section of the Green Hell that Elon was referring too. Yeah, I imagine getting airborne will make the Tesla S computers spaz a little.

And on a side note, though an old video, notice the different manufacturer prototypes being fined tuned at the Ring.

 

[HG Wells]

The Flugpatz section of the Green Hell that Elon was referring too. Yeah, I imagine getting airborne will make the Tesla S computers spaz a little.

Oh, I think we have experience with that.

 

[Artful Dodger]

In other news, we just reached comment page 4200.

LOL, yeah, missed ur que on Jan 29th...

Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the 2019 Investors' Roundtable

Cheers!

 

[T@oo]

Indeed. I think I'd rather push my car to the next supercharger than go through the nonsense of using the ecotricity network...

I can confirm this mess for Germany also. Had to use non Tesla chargers during my last trip and had (solveable, but still) troubles with 100% of them. Would not go electric if these chargers would be my only source of electrons. I would end stranded several times a year (or alternatively you'd get news about burning charge stations several times a year).

 

[Tslynk67]

OMG, what a shock, the Supercharger network is ranked highest by users among UK fast charging networks, whoda thunk it?

Zap-Map user survey reveals top 10 EV charging networks - Zap-Map

Very interesting, thanks! And even more interesting is that people rank reliability above charging speed - but you can bet that only applied to the crappy public (non-Tesla, that is) charging infrastructure, which is continually prone to issues.

 

[Tslynk67]

Good morning...I have nothing much to say except the SP is going to BAF today!

My 2021 Jan 650 lotto ticket went through the roof for about 5 minutes yesterday before falling back to earth.

Ooooo, I have 10 of those - tell me what happened, I missed it...

 

[Drax7]

The Flugpatz section of the Green Hell that Elon was referring too. Yeah, I imagine getting airborne will make the Tesla S computers spaz a little.

As nico rosberg says, the front tires overheat and get mushy, that
Turn is something else.

 

[UncaNed]

In other news, we just reached comment page 4200.

We're getting paid by the page, right??

 

[willw64]

This may be the first stock millennials sell for a 30% profit and regret selling the rest of their lives.

You can feel the global EV tail winds starting to be an uplift to the stock price, and even some of the skeptics are starting to see that while Tesla will lose marketshare over time, but of a much, much larger pie, the EV only focus of Tesla has given the company a pretty significant competitive advantage, and that the risk is to the upside and not the doomsday scenario.

 

[Christine69420]

I can confirm this mess for Germany also. Had to use non Tesla chargers during my last trip and had (solveable, but still) troubles with 100% of them. Would not go electric if these chargers would be my only source of electrons. I would end stranded several times a year (or alternatively you'd get news about burning charge stations several times a year).

It's the same situation all over Europe. I have an account with the two largest charging networks in Norway that I rarely use - but when I have to it's a nice backup.

But the main issue is that when I ie. went to Spain is that my Norwegian accounts don't work. My local companies only exist in northern Europe.

I tried to create accounts in Spain - but every website and app was in Spanish so difficult to create accounts. And some required that you also got power for your home on their account. Or perhaps my googly translated Spanish were really bad. Anyway - I never managed to sign up anywhere. So relied on sparsely located Superchargers. Skipped a few locations since unsure if had enough power to go there and back again.

I'm glad to see that Tesla is putting up more Superchargers in Spain and elsewhere!

 

[Right_Said_Fred]

Meanwhile there another 351 Model 3’s were registered in The Netherlands yesterday, after the 369 of Monday. Big numbers.

 

[T@oo]

We're getting paid by the page, right??

I thought dislikes.

 

[T@oo]

It's the same situation all over Europe. I have an account with the two largest charging networks in Norway that I rarely use - but when I have to it's a nice backup.

But the main issue is that when I ie. went to Spain is that my Norwegian accounts don't work. My local companies only exist in northern Europe.

I tried to create accounts in Spain - but every website and app was in Spanish so difficult to create accounts. And some required that you also got power for your home on their account. Or perhaps my googly translated Spanish were really bad. Anyway - I never managed to sign up anywhere. So relied on sparsely located Superchargers. Skipped a few locations since unsure if had enough power to go there and back again.

I'm glad to see that Tesla is putting up more Superchargers in Spain and elsewhere!

I have three RFID cards and three apps for five charge point network providers. Just in case. And still I can find chargers that require yet an other provider. It's insane.

 

[FreqFlyer]

As I big Tesla fan, I have to say: sometimes I hate Tesla fans.

"Wow, amazing release last week - great job Tesla, I'm so stoked! But did you hear, my friend's cousin's former roomate said that an EVEN BETTER THING will be coming out next week! I'm SO waiting for that, and YOU SHOULD TOO!"

Anyone who thinks that Model Y will be coming out in a couple weeks is an idiot. Literally nothing is ready for it. GA5 - which is probably for Model 3 to begin with, as Tesla has been pulling out all the stops to bring production up to their design spec - would be the tiniest fraction of the total. Literally nothing else is ready. Heck, they only started clearing space for the tooling last quarter.

This post is so good, I had to repost it.

 

[Tslynk67]

Meanwhile there another 351 Model 3’s were registered in The Netherlands yesterday, after the 369 of Monday. Big numbers.

It's really going nuts there, no? Is there any kind of incentive being phased-out, or something? I know that accounted for a boost Q4 last year (I think it was).

 

[Unpilot]

Ooooo, I have 10 of those - tell me what happened, I missed it...

From 3:50 to 3:55 EST the price went up to $2.82 then fell back to $1.03
Not sure if it was a Robin Hood glitch or not.

 

[MP3Mike]

thats also only for Model 3, S/X have FUSC already.

Maybe for people purchasing the cars, but there are plenty of S&X owners that don't have FUSC and could get the 2k miles of free Supercharging for referring someone. But it does double their chances of winning a free Model Y or Roadster...

 

[HG Wells]

Trump calls for US interest rates to be "zero, or less"

Trump says Fed ‘boneheads’ should cut interest rates to zero ‘or less,’ US should refinance debt

He wants to recall existing treasuries.


Trump says Fed 'boneheads' should cut interest rates to zero 'or less,' US should refinance debt

 

[KarenRei]

Meanwhile there another 351 Model 3’s were registered in The Netherlands yesterday, after the 369 of Monday. Big numbers.

Okay, Netherlands, this has gone on long enough. One, you're stealing production capacity that could otherwise be going to Iceland. And two, if you keep this up you're going to steal our #2 per-capita EV adoption rate position. Stop it!