Waiting4M3
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This is just patently untrue... I think on to ignore list you go"Where does Tesla say they have to invest $3.5 - 4 billion more to get to 5k per week? I missed that."
Last conference call...
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This is just patently untrue... I think on to ignore list you go"Where does Tesla say they have to invest $3.5 - 4 billion more to get to 5k per week? I missed that."
Last conference call...
The presidency, tariffs, tax incentives can all change in 2-3 years, some will almost definitely. trust that Tesla has a longer view on their growth plan than 2-3 years, and investors should have longer time horizons also.My point was not to take a jab. But just to point out that ones point of view of when and if a recession is coming could be skewed based on how they feel the current leadership is doing or if there is a huge macro risks caused by things like impeachment. If I believed that, I would be much more inclined to anticipate a recession. Much of a recession is caused by uncertainty. It's kind of a chain reaction where uncertainty spreads like wildfire and shapes peoples actions. People and companies hunker down to ride out the storm. Some don't survive and that leads to more opportunity for those that are strong enough to survive. Tesla basically got a free factory and sightly used stamping press out of the last recession. If recession hit today, Tesla might not make it. In two years or more, they could be positioned very well.
You should re listen to it. That investment was for 5k -10k/w and Y."Where does Tesla say they have to invest $3.5 - 4 billion more to get to 5k per week? I missed that."
Last conference call...
The presidency, tariffs, tax incentives can all change in 2-3 years, some will almost definitely. trust that Tesla has a longer view on their growth plan than 2-3 years, and investors should have longer time horizons also.
Edit: to be clear. I have a greater then 2 year Outlook for recession. Tesla has a lot of work to do in the next 2 years. I believe they can do it.
You should re listen to it. That investment was for 5k -10k/w and Y.
Antonio M. Sacconaghi - Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC
Yes. Thank you. You commented in the shareholder letter that capital expenditures for 2018 were expected to be a bit higher than 2017. I'm wondering if you could tell us what exactly is in that, call it roughly, $3.5 billion. Are you going to get to full like 10,000 car per week capacity? Is that in the $3.5 billion? What will Gigafactory production be? And in the slightly more than $3.4 billion, is that also including the investments, Elon, that you mentioned on Model Y? So where exactly is this level of capital spending going to take us in 2018? And I have a follow-up, please.
Deepak Ahuja - Tesla, Inc.
Sure. I mean, our biggest – our very high level, sort of breakdown, our biggest investment is obviously in the Model 3. And that includes completion of the payments that we still have to make on the capacity we are putting in place now as well as significant investment in our required up front for the next phase of Model 3 production to 10,000 plus per week. So that's, I would say, overall more than 50%. Way more than 50% is Model 3, and the rest is all the many other things we talked about, whether it's energy storage, whether it's -
Elon Reeve Musk - Tesla, Inc.
Primarily Y and energy storage.
Deepak Ahuja - Tesla, Inc.
And then our infrastructure spend, superchargers, stores, service centers, we want to significantly increase the service capacity, we want to significantly increase our supercharging capacity.
Elon Reeve Musk - Tesla, Inc.
Yeah.
Deepak Ahuja - Tesla, Inc.
So all of those pieces then add up to the total spend.
Elon Reeve Musk - Tesla, Inc.
Yeah. Just to give some sort of flavor for optimism on Model Y for a minute. I think – Model Y, I think, we might aim for something like maybe capacity of 1 million units a year, something like that, just for Model Y alone. And I think we'll be able to do that for CapEx that is less than the Model 3 CapEx at the $0.5 million. So probably – I think we can probably improve CapEx by a factor of 2. Not a promise, but that's my gut feel on Model Y CapEx, just to give you a flavor for my level of optimism on improvements on the manufacturing front
Math: 8000 per week * 13 = 5.5 billion. Check your zeros when you invest or your investment might be worth zero."I see them earning around 500-600 mil per quarter at 5000 per week. I’m guessing you think they need close to 10k per week to be cash flow positive?"
Nope. Even if they earned 8,000 per car with M3 (which I think is already quite optimistic) this would bring in about half a bn per quarter. And that won‘t cover their losses. And the SG&A costs, the capex and the interet expense are climbing further.
Lighten up. Long term the stock may follow or anticipate performance, but it will track performance. Don’t bet against Elon and don’t worry about those who do. He’s committed to making Tesla the biggest car company. I think he’ll do it, as he has already done with SpaceX.True but one has to ask if the goal of the recent poster is to just create chatter that will be picked up by algobots which will hence trade accordingly-- in the trading world, the product is the trade and difference on the trade.
Another aside, one cannot be so sure that the poster is indeed a bot themselves, or for that matter if i'm a bot as well.
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Hi Re, I’m genuinely interested in your viewpoint that a recession will not hit us within the next 2 years. I share this sentiment as well and I’m interested in why you think this is the case? If possible can you expand your thoughts? From your experience are you aware of any meaningful signs of an economy headed towards a recession so that I can add it to my list of things to watch out for?
Can you point to where they said this? It completely disagrees with my own recollection. It looks like ir.tesla.com is down at the moment, but I will try to find exactly what they DID say, but my recollection is that they said more like "we already have everything we need to ramp up to 5000/week".Economies of scale do not exist when there is no scale. Tesla itself stated that they have to invest a further 3,5-4 bn this year to get to 5,000/week. This will cost additional depreciation etc.
See mongo’s reply, immediately after teslie. He snipped out the relevant part of the quote and mongo added the full question and response.Can you point to where they said this? It completely disagrees with my own recollection. It looks like ir.tesla.com is down at the moment, but I will try to find exactly what they DID say, but my recollection is that they said more like "we already have everything we need to ramp up to 5000/week".
edit: others found stuff already. Thanks. Even Teslie refuted his own words.
If your user name contains the word "lie".... Even Teslie refuted his own words.
whatever... stop pretending to mod this board. this is a propaganda group.Mod: This should be a needless comment, but clearly isn't. All users must remain civil and unsnippy. Be prepared to back up things that are stated as facts, one way or the other. Falsehoods, especially repeated ones, will not be tolerated for very long. --ggr