Closed Monday? What the hell am I going to do at work all day?
On the other hand, a non-trading day for the markets to digest the (we hope) GF3 news might be fun.
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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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Closed Monday? What the hell am I going to do at work all day?
On the other hand, a non-trading day for the markets to digest the (we hope) GF3 news might be fun.
Alphacrux
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I am late posting this. A neighbor's kid asked me if I'd do an interview on self-driving cars for a report he was doing for his school. I not only agreed to give him an interview but offered to give me a ride in my Model S raven (with v10) so that he could see for himself. We finally got to go last weekend.
He brought along a friend. Both were just shy of driving age. I showed them the trunk, the frunk, how the seats fold down. They were amazed at the amount of space in the Model S. I took them for a ride next and gave them a bit of Ludicrous acceleration (they loved it!). They demonstrated Navigate on Autopilot automatic lane change. It mostly worked fine, but for some reason the first V10 update seemed to have trouble getting into the exit lane with a car blocking the exit lane. I had to take over and take the exit manually. Previously, it worked just fine. Maybe the more recent V10 updates corrected that?
I haven't even used summon myself, so I didn't show them that.
In any case, they continued to ask me questions and recorded my answers on their cell phones (gotta love kids ease with technology!). Typical questions about range anxiety (I told them 'None, after they closed the Fort Stockton gap on I-10 here in Texas'). 'Would you go back to a gas car' (No). 'Why did you get a Tesla' (Initially, acceleration, but kept if for all other reasons mentioned here, saving the planet, innovation, self-driving, etc). I showed them all of the menu options on the touch-screen and played one of the recent racing games, Netflix and Youtube. There were blown away by all of this. Finally, at the end, they thanked me and one of them told me that as soon as he got a job, he was going to start saving for a Model 3.
At the end, I walked away with satisfaction. These kids 'get it'. We are going to save the planet, and we are going to be all-right. It's going to be all-right.
He brought along a friend. Both were just shy of driving age. I showed them the trunk, the frunk, how the seats fold down. They were amazed at the amount of space in the Model S. I took them for a ride next and gave them a bit of Ludicrous acceleration (they loved it!). They demonstrated Navigate on Autopilot automatic lane change. It mostly worked fine, but for some reason the first V10 update seemed to have trouble getting into the exit lane with a car blocking the exit lane. I had to take over and take the exit manually. Previously, it worked just fine. Maybe the more recent V10 updates corrected that?
I haven't even used summon myself, so I didn't show them that.
In any case, they continued to ask me questions and recorded my answers on their cell phones (gotta love kids ease with technology!). Typical questions about range anxiety (I told them 'None, after they closed the Fort Stockton gap on I-10 here in Texas'). 'Would you go back to a gas car' (No). 'Why did you get a Tesla' (Initially, acceleration, but kept if for all other reasons mentioned here, saving the planet, innovation, self-driving, etc). I showed them all of the menu options on the touch-screen and played one of the recent racing games, Netflix and Youtube. There were blown away by all of this. Finally, at the end, they thanked me and one of them told me that as soon as he got a job, he was going to start saving for a Model 3.
At the end, I walked away with satisfaction. These kids 'get it'. We are going to save the planet, and we are going to be all-right. It's going to be all-right.
Tesla will keep rising on the search engines, the more people see on the road the more questions they have about em. Most of the time I’ll get asked “if you don’t mind me asking how much did you pay for your car?!” I tell them around $40,000 but the best part is not paying for gas. It seems to get their mind turning. I imagine a lot of these interactions end with a quick search of Tesla.
EVNow
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Are you sure ? No mention of it closing - and USAToday specifically says stock markets are open.
Kiplinger says stock markets are open but bond market is closed (basically a bank holiday).
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StealthP3D
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And rather a lot of murdering. He must have gotten up very early in the morning (ref to Cake or Death, Eddie Izzard, for the uninitiated)
StealthP3D
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Long time lurker. Noobe question. With opening of production at giga 3 could tsla get a lot more interest from chinese investors? Don't know anything about difficulty of buying U.S. stock in China.
At that time, Elon said van doesn't have large enough market. SUV/CUV market is much larger. Pickup truck market is very large.
Pezpunk
Active Member
No educated people at that time thought the Earth was flat. The Earth being round had been accepted fact for thousands of years. It's just nobody (except Columbus) thought it'd be a good idea to get to India by sailing West from Spain (And guess what, they were right).
Anyway, here in Virginia, the second Monday in October is also known as Yorktown Victory Day.
A Warm Yorktown Victory Day To You, Virginia | DCist
Wow, pretty choppy right now!
Now shorty and manipulators pile-in to try and stop the pop with the "substantial phase A trade deal"... Let's see if they succeed. The good news is that they'll be showing a lot of money at it, which we can all hope they lose.
Edit: not so "substantial" then
Now shorty and manipulators pile-in to try and stop the pop with the "substantial phase A trade deal"... Let's see if they succeed. The good news is that they'll be showing a lot of money at it, which we can all hope they lose.
Edit: not so "substantial" then
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Installing 32.12.1 for my Model X right now.
Mail delivery and garbage trucks would be wonderful! Both could charge at night and Tesla could package solar and batteries for areas with unreliable power, and for use in municipalities rich enough to afford it just to assure services even in times of power unavailability.
Joe F
Disruption is hard.
What Dyson did here is the outcome we predicted. They can't compete with Tesla. The only way a Dyson EV might work is to design something very special, then sell for one million dollars each, like the LV bag in EV industry.
Anyone who try to compete with Tesla by price/function/value will run into trouble. Tesla could sell the hardware at cost, make profit from software.
Those analysts are clueless when they say Dyson quitting means trouble for Tesla.
StealthP3D
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The problem was that 99% of the people were uneducated and might go their entire life without talking to an educated person. And even if an educated person told them the world was round, it would have been dismissed as crazy "ivory tower" talk.
That was a good guess until we saw profit-taking on the NASDAQ going into close, which set up a similar dip in TSLA, which then allowed both the hedge funds and market makers to make a push for 247.50, which has more calls than puts.
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