Saw it on Yahoo! too, I always feel these big volume spikes that barely move SP is a fund manager helping his/her short friend to cover, SEC should really investigate who’s selling and who’s buying.
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Musk allowed this in response to some famous person who refused to buy the car without at test drive. The man was under some age legally in that particular state, so he let him drive it (sorry for lacking details...). Then I believe he continued it IMO because the risk of theft (write-off anyway) is less than the gain from the temptation and impulse buyer sales.
Q4 is critical for profits simply because Tesla had stated as much in their forward looking announcements last time. Q1 is expected to be lesser profits because they announced some debt payoff - so they have some leeway there.
How far are they gonna go without accessing a Supercharger? They’d also have to permanently disable the communications equipment. It’d be easier and less risky to just steal a random Tesla off the road.
My understanding (but I could be wrong too). Car got a flat tire. Guy was close to destination, so just continued driving on a destroyed tire and rim. Tire caught fire. Fire department came and water soaked the battery for 6 hours, so presumably the tire also ignited the battery. Fire appeared to be out so they took away the car. Later it caught fire again. Key takeaways:
1. The battery was not the cause of the fire.
2. Yes, they are dangerous. But it's like an anti-explosion. "Please be careful around me for the next couple of weeks."
It happens all the time to airplanes. Happened once to a plane I was on. (Pan Am 747 in Honolulu. John McEnroe was on board heading to the Australian Open at the peak of his career. I got to see one of his famous meltdowns in person.) Look closely at the original twitter photo, I don't have time to track it down again.
My Thinkorswim shows a trade of 7700 TSLA Dec 21 strike $350 calls with a price of $2.42 at 11:55 CST. That would represent call option interest in 770,000 TSLA shares. This may have been a dark pool options transaction. Thinkorswim indeed shows no related volume spike in the trading of actual shares.
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This contradicts what I read about the case. I read that the car had just been towed when it started outgassing, then burning.
I strongly suspect that they're going to find that the tow truck operator damaged the battery pack (e.g. they'll find clear evidence of denting or tearing of the pack and cells).
ED: here we go:
"An employee of the tire shop said the vehicle was brought in on a tow truck, and he noticed a hissing sound coming from it, then within minutes, the vehicle was on fire."
I strongly suspect that they're going to find that the tow truck operator damaged the battery pack (e.g. they'll find clear evidence of denting or tearing of the pack and cells).
ED: here we go:
"An employee of the tire shop said the vehicle was brought in on a tow truck, and he noticed a hissing sound coming from it, then within minutes, the vehicle was on fire."
OT, or probably not, depends on whether you’re shorts.
Also as someone already pointed out, we don’t know how the car was tolled to the shop, if the rear wheels were left on the ground, it will not be a surprise that battery/electrics overheating to ignition point.
About catching fire twice, that’s just noise, we all know once the pack caught fire, and responders dumped water in it, it tends to reignite later until it completely cooled down, responders know it so they are expecting it to happen, and the car would be kept in an isolated location for a period of time for that reason.
What I read so far is this car had flat tire on hw-17 which is a narrow mountain road with lots of high speed turns, mostly no shoulder at all. I don’t think anyone would be able to keep the car completely on the road if you blow a front tire. Actually if you managed to not roll the car you are lucky than many drivers who did every year, so I won’t be surprised if the car jumped the curb and hit the bottom hard, we don’t know whether that happened to this car, but that’s my suspicion.
Also as someone already pointed out, we don’t know how the car was tolled to the shop, if the rear wheels were left on the ground, it will not be a surprise that battery/electrics overheating to ignition point.
About catching fire twice, that’s just noise, we all know once the pack caught fire, and responders dumped water in it, it tends to reignite later until it completely cooled down, responders know it so they are expecting it to happen, and the car would be kept in an isolated location for a period of time for that reason.
Is today "Change your Avatar" day... having a hard time figuring out who's who.
Yeah, I can't find my own posts any more, very confusing!
OK, OT, sorry, but a reminder why we're investing in Tesla, aside the 20x return, that is. Greta is an inspiration to us all and a new breed of leadership.
There is a controversial discussion going on at Twitter about his Q4 prediction as well as for 2019.
He has done a great job predicting numbers in the last quarters but I have a hard time to understand his logic for next year. In fact he believes for instance that the demand for the 3 in Europe is not higher or even lower than in the US and that although sedans are much more popular in Europe where parking lots and streets are just more narrow versus the US.
Not to mention that the EU is a market with a larger population.
Also we know that 3k 3s per week are expected to arrive in Seebrügge at Feb/March and should assume they will increase that over the year.
Dec 18I estimate 286,000 #Model3 deliveries globally in 2019. I think the split could be as follows: 47% North America 36% Europe 17% Asia/Pacific
Troy Teslike on Twitter
Thats just about 5700 3s/w in average for the entire year 2019 and depending on where you assume the production rate is today just very little production increase for the full year if at all.
I guess I have to disagree with Troys prediction for 2019 .....
And back to 123 today, go figure... 344 more deliveries this year to beat last year and that, as you say, its a likely focus on US deliveries in 2H18
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