This may in part be due to battery cells, with the SR version using LFP, and 2170s making more money in performance versions, and perhaps in Model Ys.
My expectation is that on the final day before the stock price starts the escalator up is the market makers do a final price drop of a few dollars to take out the stop loss shares. This could be the $158.83 in your chart for today but there could be another similar 1 hour drop of a few more dollars coming soon which would be my guess.
Now they are just changing prices just to mess with people. Next week: $69 price bump.
Cut it by 69. All the newspapers will run a news story. Free advertising!
It's not quite as small as a Raptor-that's only got a 5' 5" bed. That turns off a lot of potential truck buyers, the ones that actually use one for work of any sort. Great toy for showing off with, but not really a working truck. Cybertruck has a good chance of being much more functional. And with the short front, the OAL may be no longer, meaning parking lots won't be a PITA, especially with 4-wheel steering. The other big CT advantage-the short, sloping hood means someone driving it off road will actually be able to see the road in front of them, especially when cresting hills. Most modern pickups are not very functional for off-road use for that reason. That same feature also makes it much safer in urban areas. With the tall hoods of most pickups, seeing shorter pedestrians is a problem.
Right on cue. Tesla have used this tactic for Q1 as well, setting a "bottom price" giving people the signal that it's time to buy.
It almost looks like they were performing systems identification before by doing larger adjustment with heaviside step changes. Imo the most logical explanation, which Ross et al hates, is that Tesla knows what they are doing, have more data than we do and are using autobidder technology to figure out their ideal prices. And they do this taking into account everything costs, production, estimated demand at every price level, from future holidays, future tax incentives, future price changes etc.
If you listened to Rob's video......
How will that free up any 2170 cells? The Model 3 RWD uses LFP cells from China...
How many people "wish" they bought at the bottom after a green day even though it's probably not the bottom? People has no idea what the peak or the bottom is, but just look at indicators as if they mean anything but in reality they mean nothing. The correct answer is to buy a Tesla when you are ready to, not to time the market. Every inventory chart points to a price drop, and yet we have a price increase.
