Good move from Tesla. Will increase customer retention further and has a feel good factor as a 'member'. View attachment 1037948
I also got that email, but I’ m not sure if anything has changed. We were members in the past too.
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Good move from Tesla. Will increase customer retention further and has a feel good factor as a 'member'. View attachment 1037948
Free oil changes for life...As well, I don't think many people understand the real maintenance saving of EV's as well. Tesla could include (excluding tires/wipers) maintenance for the 4 year warranty period and I don't think it would cost that much.
Besides the great driving experience, I always thought low maintenance and reliability would be one of the biggest things to draw people to EV's. It seems this has gotten lost in the noise with the Hertz disaster and all the OTA "recalls".
They are basically running a non profit , if so why invest in the stock.I don’t know how it would unfold, but I wouldn’t count on that angle being a big profit centre.
Have you heard Elon talk about an accident in 2018 with Barrett Riley and how it spurred him to improve safety?
The company won’t care about profiteering, they’ll care about saving lives — that I believe.
Seriously. Every Tesla ad campaign should say "Free oil changes for life". It would cause a stir in the public consciousness.Free oil changes for life...
L2 FSD, I agree.I know many posters here claim this often, but I don't feel the majority of people feel this way. Most people I know, and I'm talking about average or below average wealth people, they value money over safety because they are strapped financially. Most people would never consider paying for a software to drive them around when they can do it themselves for free, even if it is less safe.
I often see Tesla bulls claiming once FSD is solved the take rate will skyrocket and the price will go up, but personally I do not see it playing out that way. Most people can't afford FSD today at $12K so they certainly won't be able to afford it at a higher price, no matter how good it is.
My personal opinion is Tesla will LOWER the price once FSD is solved in order to increase adoption. Bulls like to forecast tens of billions of dollars of FSD profit, but it's important to remember Tesla's mission is NOT to produce huge profits, it's to create a better world. Look at how Tesla is willing to drop margins on the cars in order to increase sales, FSD will likely play out the same way in my opinion.
People like Gary Black get blasted for looking at TSLA's future conservatively, but to me many TSLA bulls go too far in the optimistic direction. Remember Tesla's mission and don't let emotions get in the way of being realistic or practical. And just because many of us here can easily afford to pay $12K+ for FSD does not mean most other people ever would.
IMHO of course, just my two cents.
Free oil changes for life...
Tesla will not be forced to give it away. At least not in the US. Nobody was forced to give airbags away for free.In other words, someone spends billions of dollars developing a system and now is forced to give it away. That's a real incentive to develop new products.
Why should Tesla give a battery warranty beyond any warranty given for an ICE in the history of ICE!? So that OEMs raise their warranties on what exactly? ICE or their EV batteries that aren’t, at the very least, managed as good as Teslas? On vehicles they’ve given up on!?My number two recommendation would be for Tesla to raise its battery warranty to at least 200,000 miles. I think Tesla could easily afford to replace the few battery packs that fail before 200,000 miles. Then the other automakers would have to raise their warranties as well.
The economic benefits of actual robotaxis could be split off from things that just improve public safety, it’s not binary.They are basically running a non profit , if so why invest in the stock.
I'm also dollar-cost averaging, but every two weeks. Glad to meet a fellow averager.Monthly buy of another 54 shares at $172.30, the accumulation continues, such low low prices!
The real question is would one be willing to get into a vehicle controlled by the present software to take you to your destination safely, and accept the liability?I have similar issues. While it is cool tech I still need to disengage multiple times on my 7 mile commute. Especially on the way home out of the city, I don’t even try using it anymore in this situation as it is useless and causes to many problems.
I am not sure how they would even fix the issues I have on my commute home. To describe it, it’s almost like someone that is a decent driver but has never driven in my city, therefore, it doesn’t anticipate which lane it needs to be in to not get stuck in the wrong lane during rush hour traffic. I could totally see a human new to my city driving during rush hour doing the exact same thing.
However, I did drive through a school zone yesterday that had a flashing light indicating a lower speed and it slowed down as I would have. I will drive through there again not during school hours to see if it slows down or maintains speed.
Yes. It would be nice if they would get on with it.6. Neither of the two vehicles priced under $50,000 fits their needs
7. No home charger & range on 3 or Y isn't sufficient for their weekly total commute (e.g., need 3 supercharger visits of 20min or more)
8. Don't want to support Elon based on his words and actions
9. Belief that EVs are inferior / expensive / need battery replacements from media and politicians
Mostly I think that Tesla is struggling to go from Early Adopters to Late Adopters. It's a pretty classic stage in technology adoption where the next group of buyers have different decision making criteria from the Early Adopters. Instead of being motivated by the potential benefits and accepting the trade offs, the Late Adopters tend to want to make the "right" decision and are less willing to accept unknown or unfamiliar risks.
Tesla has plenty of ways to address late adopters. For example they could explain the almost zero routine maintenance, low battery degradation after 100k miles, long powertrain warranty, etc.
How about people just engage their brains? How about they simply recognize their fears, and then systematically work through them in the numerous ways that current brave-souled EV owners have done?
Do you really think people are going to engage their brains? Have you met people?Why should Tesla give a battery warranty beyond any warranty given for an ICE in the history of ICE!? So that OEMs raise their warranties on what exactly? ICE or their EV batteries that aren’t, at the very least, managed as good as Teslas? On vehicles they’ve given up on!?
How about people just engage their brains? How about they simply recognize their fears, and then systematically work through them in the numerous ways that current brave-souled EV owners have done?
Why don’t you just start dialing down your speed sooner so the car arrives at the school zone at the appropriate speed!? That’s all I do now. It’s easy to just give the car more runway so you arrive at the sign at the correct speed. The car slows down so gently that anyone behind you isn’t going to notice.School zones are definitely one of my biggest problems with it currently. In New Orleans, all school zones have speed-based traffic ticket cameras, so making a mistake there is expensive. It doesn't seem to understand them at all and just ignores them.
In v11, I could manually set the speed slower as I approach one, and it would quickly adjust to my manually set speed. In v12 it very slowly drifts toward what I manually set -- not nearly quickly enough to avoid a ticket, so I end up disengaging at that point. So they basically took away my work-around. ... which I wouldn't care that much about if they solved the initial problem.
Oddly enough, they know where the school zone traffic cameras are -- they do now mark them correctly on the map. They just don't do anything about them.
I'm also dollar-cost averaging, but every two weeks. Glad to meet a fellow averager.
I've heard that Omar buys 1 share every trading day. Also an interesting strategy.
Maybe you’ll want to start by talking to government at all levels and organizations and companies and financial institutions and media that already put people’s lives at risk every single day, not to mention all that have at least tried to slow Tesla, if not outright end Tesla.Things that significantly improve public safety really shouldn’t be locked behind a subscription pay gate especially when all cars have the hardware and it’s merely a software toggle.
If FSD prevents accidents at high speed, can detect pedestrians and avoid hitting them, etc then doesn’t it seem a bit immoral to not make those features standard across the fleet? Not even for the driver’s sake, for the sake of other users on public roads.
First chapter of book exonerating Elon from the Thai rescue saga:
I know there is much support for Elon here regarding some of his more out there demeanours. I implore those who do not to take another look. This man is truly saving us from things that we cannot yet comprehend. He is trying to be a centrist on all things. I'm not talking politics. This is how we live, how we breathe, how we get around, how we help our neighbours, how we are entertained so that we don't fall into despair and most importantly how we exist in 50 years.
Add in free brake pads as this one is even less understood.Seriously. Every Tesla ad campaign should say "Free oil changes for life". It would cause a stir in the public consciousness.