Thanks!
Right! thanks! Hey, Mule, should I keep my 16 X or get a new one? Love it, but, O so yesterday.....
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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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ETrade changes the margin requirements for a stock based on the amount of the stock in the account. They decided your account was too heavily concentrated in TSLA. It's not the same for everyone. They've done it to me several times.
If a unicorn was in in the image, it would be the S&P Board. *S&P 500 Inclusion* - who woulda thought the requirements would be met in 2020...
I will personally pay for Linette Lopez's plane ticket. Also, Mama Cathie would slap that resting frown face upside down.
gabeincal
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I did not receive anything from E-Trade lately regarding margin requirement.
FEERSUMENDJIN
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StealthP3D
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I'll just point out, that belief isn't really compatible with Elon very recently instructing those who want FSD contact Tesla with their request.
Almost 700 US in Germany!
Whoops, make that 706 and rising!
Whoops, make that 706 and rising!
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With Berlin and Texas coming online and Tesla's success in a competitive China market, people should see what is coming. A bigger gap up.
March 2020 was a crazy month, even by $TSLA standards...
Buckminster
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Wrote this yesterday on the Super Bulls thread. Posting here because I am less embarrassed about it today.
It's a complex model. Three variables which I have made mathematical constants - all with a value of 50.
Working on simplification for non Super Bull autists.
I don't get the "FSD might be impossible" argument. WAYMO shows it's working within limits today - so with a remote operations center to manually control the car in corner cases (speaking to police controls, handling accident communication etc ... ) isn't WAYMO proove that FSD is already solved?
If so then the ratio of control center intervention per million miles is just a profit margin and scale-out argument - not a general argument against FSD isn't it?
LiveLong&Profit
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Think you nailed current 'startup' list.
The future: Well...
don't think Elon really likes planes. He seems to be focused on either ground transport or rockets. Maybe to him planes are are weird middle-thing, which will be obsoleted by a) cars in tunnels for distances of 0-300 km, b) hyperloop for distances of 300-1500 km and c) earth-to-earth starship launches doing continental hops.
He did however spend around 5 minutes on a recent Rogan pod explaining how a battery-driven plane could be very fast and energy efficient. So ... maybe.
I just think that he really likes solving big problems and ground transport and space is just ... bigger.
If Tesla and perhaps SpaceX does a collab re. planes I suspect a 20-30 person plane, because that can be done within ~2028-2030 battery tech as self-funded proof-of-concept.
Then quickly moving into 100-400 person envelopes, because that is where the volume is - and also where fossil fuel displaced really will move the needle.
Problem is that SpaceX spaceships earth-to-earth travel would soundly beat those planes.
However, it may be the case that public will be disinclined to accepting a lot of earth-to-earth starhip travelling: They are noise and are perceived to be dangerous. (Perhaps rightfully so: imagine the 2001 terrorist scenario played out with spacehips instead of planes...)
So, space ships may be allowed and popular for continent hopping on dedicated specialized platforms in the range of 20 places on earth (a handful per continent)
That would leave a large market open for quiet, effective, VTOL planes.
Also, being VTOL, that makes it possible to integrate with new dedicated air-strips: Not only can the planes themselves be fast and energy efficient. They could also be allowed to operate within city cores. This would make them extremely attractive, because then you no longer have to add 30-60 minute commute at each end of a current plane travel, but could instead add a few minutes.
(For sure, big corporations would transform their current heli-pads to handle VTOL planes also, making the air-strip commute an elevator ride instead of a car-trip)
I don't think Tesla would go into fossil fuel remediation. An important issue for sure. But Elons contribution is by solving current and future energy and transport. That is a very big thing. He does not also have to clean up the mess made by the fossil industry.
Battery recycling is a given. I think they are doing that already in-house - and are setting that up to scale alongside extreme expansion in battery production. With or without Redwood. Remember, that redwood have to support generic battery recycling which is limited due to being generic. Tesla can solve for specialized batteries, namely their own.
I don't think ship building are in Teslas future. But for sure, selling a kit of motors, batteries and control unit would be. Shipyards are pretty competetive. For sure, Tesla could eek out some innovations here also. But ... there are so many other opportunities were their innovation talents are better spent. Selling motor-battery-control-kits to shipbuilders captures a lot of the value add for electric ships.
I would add house building as a wild card.
When Tesla is ready to announce the widely anticipated HVAC for houses, the have 3 huge building blocks: Solar, Home batteries and HVAC. It makes a lot of sense to include custom sensors (temperature, moisture, etc) as well as house climate control. Now you have 4-5 building blocks of a house. Now, perhaps you can make innovation re. concrete or bricks (recall boring bricks). We know that Tesla has experience in glass: witness Tesla glass roofs and Semi and Cyber truck hardened glass.
Then it is getting to a point where you have most of what constitutes a house. From a vertical integration standpoint, it probably makes sense to just build the house fully, and do fast iteration and improvement, instead of spending a lot of time dealing with (and waiting for) sub-contractors not used to acting at the speed of Tesla/the speed of thought.
Tesla factory team is also beginning to accumulate a lot of experience handling the whole of planning and logistics of large construction projects.
House building is a big mouthful though. I would be surprised if they enter that space before 2030. But when (if) they do, I predict building whole neighborhoods or mini cities in one go because, again, being Tesla, scale is just very important.
Well WAYMO does all the hard things people think only a human being can do with HD maps, meaning a human being has done them beforehand.
So if you think a robot can never actually *understand* what it sees, WAYMO doesn't prove otherwise.
insaneoctane
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I think Tesla will make a version of the semi that is an RV. I guess any 3rd party could make a boujee/ opulent trailer ....Tesla will have the FSD cab! Maybe Tesla has to make an iPad controller for destinations and controlling the settings from the waterbed
cyclingthealps
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Short interest decreased from the period 02/12/2021 (share price $811) to 02/26/2021 (share price $675).
The short amount also decreased in this period.
The short amount also decreased in this period.
- Shares shorted from 47.690.000,00 to 44.000.000,00
- Float shorted from 6,20% to 5,72%
- Amount shorted from $38.676.590.000,00 to $29.700.000.000,00
Agriculture wont be the same as Earth but if the tech is necessary on Mars then It would seem Tesla will focus on it.
Todd Burch
14-Year Member
My read is that this means that, despite all their FUD and BS, shorts are low conviction about their TSLA thesis. If they really believed their own BS, you wouldn’t see all this closing out of short positions. And with reduced short positions, the FUD lets up as well.
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