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These are things that passive safety features wouldn’t have helped prevent?Actually it adds a lot of value. It's saved me from two accidents. I call that good value for money.
So when will Tesla PowerWall adjust it's price to $1,350?At this new low price I’m pretty sure it’s profitable to deploy for arbitrage, not just frequency regulation. People like Matt Smith who said Megapacks only sold because utilities billed “cost plus” should now be believers.
e.g. 300 full cycles at 33cents profit per kWh and it’s paid for. A thousand cycles at 10cents, is still fast ROI.
Fill up on solar, sell into evening is one cycle. Wind at night, morning peak, a possible second. Per day!
Like I said lets see how it goes. Those local contractors certainly had people at Tesla they were communicating with.The most of the 500 that were laid off on the supercharging team located potential sites and negotiated with the site owners. Local contractors including electrical engineers pulled permits and did the job site construction. Obviously Tesla supplied the charging equipment.
on FSD as a likely significant contribution to profits:...
It's easy to tell the difference between the car driving itself, and the smoothness of keeping within the lanes on curves, than when I'm driving and I, naturally, try to hug the lanes on curves. It felt safer to be on FSD and got more satisfaction of feeling fresh after a 30 minute highway drive. Hope that helps...
this regurgitating every elon tweet that did not pan out is really not useful .... time frame matters over time he may prove to be correct ... the vision is what matters
For those who take Musk's tweets as definitive/authoritative "proof," consider the above three tweets, all of which are celebrating Elonversaries today.
They were all false.
0 chance in the next decade for robotaxi? I'm definitely betting against that premise. Reading your entire post I can see why you've sold your tesla holdings as you see them as a failing auto company with software that will never achieve what Elon aspires it to become.on FSD as a likely significant contribution to profits:
First, I still count nothing for RoboTaxi precisely because even with technology 'perfected' there are innumerable impediments to widespread adoption, all well documented;
Second, since 2015 with first Autopilot I have considered Tesla well ahead of competitors. Nothing has changed in that respect, Tesla still is ahead in generalized non-geofenced operation;
Third, I have now had some time with FSD 12.3.6. It is a huge advance, no question. Now it is smooth and consistent, mostly. It does have major weaknesses in even highway routing within complex intersections (my measure of merit on this is Miami's Golden Glades (look it up). FSD even now cannot turn correctly, even for the easiest parts. It is totally incapable of final entry and exit from urban building access.
Fourth, With these limitations I still think buyers would pay for it now were it promoted well. It is not!
Fifth, Constant overselling since 2015 is making existing impediments worse.
In my opinion there is zero chance of anything approaching RoboTaxi to be delivered in a generalized form within this decade. That will NOT happen, in my opinion.
Further I considered the original labeling of Autopilot was perfectly appropriate. It was and remains as definite aid to drivers and has improved in almost every update. It is not anything remotely approaching Full Self Driving.
Were this product properly positioned and promoted I think it was have very high acceptance. However it is promoted as something it is not and the company seems bent on positioning further to something that will not happen anytime soon.
Finally, I use FSD on every drive and am happy I bought it. I did not buy hype, I bought reality. The reality is very, very good.
As for those who claim others are equivalent right now I have a short comment: Don't be ridiculous! Anybody who's actually tried several others and present-issue FSD would need to be delusional to say Tesla is not better.
The HYPE is the problem. not the product! This is a gigantic marketing failure, a major failure in Positioning. IN sum, sell the product you have, not the product you sometime hope to have.
everybody wants to cosplaySigh what’s wrong with these people?
But this is what Trump promised the oil execs at Mar-a-lago he would do to Austin and Fremont if they gave him billions each to get elected.
I guess the other 499 companies in the S&P500 are morons for having a PR Deparment?I don't see how a PR department could have helped. A PR department would need to check with Elon before putting out a statement. But Elon apparently wasn't ready to put out that clarifying statement with real numbers until now. So what would the PR department do that Elon couldn't just do himself?
People think Tesla’s going to stop making cars
BP and other oil companies don't develop/operate gas stations. These are all 3rd party developers and owner/operators. Gas station owners aren't going to start developing strip malls. Two different businesses. Strip malls already have SuCDo people really see this as a thing for typical corner gas stations in urban areas? I can see the transit routes have better food, shopping, haircuts, etc, since someone would have to wait for about 20 minutes, but in urban/even suburbs environment, do people really want to eat/get a haircut at a supercharger location (or imagine your local BP gas station...and pay whatever is the going charge rate of the SuC operator) vs. charging at home/near the house?
I suppose I just can't see myself ever wanting that, again, outside of transit corridor chargers. These BP locations are also not the massive sites that say, a mall or something like a Buckees has.
I’ve sent a fair amount of time battling unwarranted FUD re: Tesla’s and EV’s in general on several social media sites.
FUD should not be assumed to be unwarranted or used in a derogatory manner. Fear, uncertainty and doubt may be quite justified when a company’s actions - including those of its leader - warrant such feelings. To never feel fear, uncertainty or doubt as to Tesla’s prospects or Elon’s actions seems to me unhealthy - and potentially risky.
50k in transit was obviously BS that was thrown out there for Tesla PR (youtubers and twitter fanbois). They already had 96k in inventory going into last Q and inventory piled up at every delivery center.Wiki - Tesla Europe Registration Stats
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Final EU April sales are in. <14k, which is down from January and April 2023.
Where are/were the ~50k "in transit" vehicles as of 3/31? Of the April sales data we have they do not seem to appear, unless Tesla just stopped manufacturing vehicles for awhile.
Hardly any business in Sweden uses paper invoices any more. It's all digital.I wouldn't be surprised if the strike there is part of the problem. (It is hard to pay your invoices or respond to notices if the post office refuses to deliver them to you.)
It's very similar to the crowds at Trump rallies. It's a social event for morons.Or are they just mindless hoardes of easily influenced individuals looking for any excuse to cause disruption? Don't wish to get political, we see a lot of that with the free you know where protestors. Many of them don't care about or even understand "the cause", they just want to be part of it.
this regurgitating every elon tweet that did not pan out is really not useful .... time frame matters over time he may prove to be correct ... the vision is what matters
BP and other oil companies don't develop/operate gas stations. These are all 3rd party developers and owner/operators.
It's illegal to run a car engine (unless in process of driving) in some countries. Eg rule 123 of highway code.Have I missed all the stories of 12V battery failures from running nonstop?
Mildly OT
Alleged FSD trial conversion data. So far looks like a <2% conversion