Most of us here should already know, but still: They usually release quarterly reports on beginning of 2nd month of next Q, but there are some occasions they released the report early on end of 1st month, on most of those occasions, it’s a blockbuster quarter. That’s why Tesla merely announced Q3 report date will be on Oct 24 did send stock soaring. People assume the early date means good result. I expect Q4 report would be similar, when they announce the quarterly call date, street will set an expectation, and it will move SP. But, this doesn’t rule out they put the call on Feb 5th to set up a nice bear trap. TSLA is like a rubber band, the harder you push it down, the faster and higher it will bounce.
Elon refused to quit Trump's "strategic & advisory forum" after the refugee ban EO. Even Uber's Kalanick quit. This is really what irked liberals. Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't quit Trump's advisory council As to Liberals eating their own - considering the big tent, shouldn't be surprising.
I just wanted to point out to all that Sonnenfeld wasn't trying to congratulate Musk for his cunning. Rather, he was hoping to stir up the SEC and create ill-will towards Musk with these comments. Unfortunately, Jim Cramer did something similar when he remarked (before the SEC became involved in the funding secured controversy) that Musk had nothing to fear from the SEC because the agency was so overworked it would take years for them to get around to doing anything and then it would be something light. By making this comment, Cramer was calling the SEC impotent and challenging them in the worst kind of way to do something. They had to respond to Musk in some way after Cramer's remarks. Sonnefeld was trying to do the same thing today. Most of us know that Jeff Sonnenfeld is a cohort of Jim Chanos. He was one of the participants in the infamous Linette Lopez declares her innocence CNBC interview that also featured Chanos ally (and million-dollar-book deal recipient) Bethany McLean. In that interview, CNBC never divulged that Sonnenfeld or McLean had any connection to short-seller Jim Chanos. The two paraded as "experts" and did everything they could to smear Musk. It was perhaps the lowest of the many lows in ethics that CNBC achieved in the past 12 months.
If they have 12 hour shifts, wouldn't they have 4 sets of shifts (front half of week day, front half of week night, back half of week day, back half of week night) working alternating 4 days on 3 off, 3 on 4 off? (and thus no reason to slow down on weekends) At least that's how we did shift coverage in the IT world ... or is it really a single day shift and night shift and they normally work 6-7 days a week each?
@BioSehnsucht, see my message here. Looking at the data, I can differentiate between day offs and full work days and sometimes half work days too but I don't know the details about how they are arranging shifts. Also, I don't have precise production numbers for each day. I only have a rough idea about how a day compares to other days or a week to another week.
Fact Checking said: ↑ The only other method I'm aware of to cope with very high leveraged volatility emotionally is frontal lobe lobotomy. I wonder if that Greek philosofer may have been one of those famously depicted by Robert Storm Petersen: Perikles, Alkibiades, Diogenes etc? (Translation: Hey Perikles, can you tell me when a Tuborg tastes best? --Every time! )
@Fact Checking i find this video quite useful and informative. If you have some time, can you take a look at it and let us know what you think the major takeaways are? It was posted by a very notable member from Tesla Moro’s Club: It’s definitely worth your time if anyone here is interested in disecting Q3 numbers.
WEEKEND OFF-TOPIC: “History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes” -- Mark Twain In the 90s, Microsoft sold a less expensive, entry-level operating system called Windows "Home Edition". Its performance was hobbled by decreasing internal memory buffers and stack sizes by half to make the entry-level product noticably slower than the higher priced "Pro Edition". Indeed there were only about 6 changes needed in the Windows XP Registry (edits) to convert Windows Home into Windows Pro. A small but savy 3rd-party tech outfit called Sysinternals (Mark Russinovich, Austin, TX) discovered these simple differences independantly and acted to make the tech community aware of these differences. Sysinternals briefly made available a small utility program that would make the necessary changes on the current installation of the Windows OS to restore full performance. You know, for testing purposes? Microsoft acquired Sysinternals and all its assets in July 2006, rebranding it as Winternals. Microsoft does continues to distribute some useful Windows registry tools through that channel, However, the 'Home-to-Pro' utility was quietly withdrawn, while older versions of the orgininal utility remain elusive in Web searchs. Mark Russinovich, however, is a rich man. For the hardware 'moral equivalent' of this tale, read about the Intel 486SX chip. Prediction: Porsche hacking becomes a thing. You read it here first. Cheers! P.S. I downloaded my first copy of LINUX operating system in August 1994 (Slackware v0.4) and yes I still have it on 14 x 1.44 mb floppy disks. And no, LINUX has no built-in performance-defeat software features.
New Elon email leaked: They are pushing inventory in Q4 hard for employees beta testing HW3: free EAP and FSD ($8k off) and $5k reduction for premium interior. After incentives the net cost of the MR car is $30k (!). I expect all these cars gone within the hour.
No, but as @KarenRei speculated about back in the Summer, the AWD Model 3 may receive an OTA updated to convert in into a Performance Model 3. techie hint: if the SiC MOSFET count in the rear motor's drive controller is the same between AWD and Performance versions, then it will be possible to 'uncork' some software limited performance in the AWD. I don't think anyone has published a teardown/review of the AWD inverter yet. @Ingineer how about it? Or perhaps you already know if the MOSFET counts are the same between AWD and P Models 3? Cheers!
Also, Europe had 72% of worldwide station wagon sales in 2017, heavily skewed towards Germany and the nordic countries. See the following informative post: Station wagons are disappearing... but wait, there's hope - JATO The reason why I advocate for a Mission-Estate Model 3... though the Y is definitely the next globally crucial car for Tesla.
Agreed. Here's a much better way to look at the NASDAQ-100 FlashQuotes - Nasdaq 100 That's what's called "Reach for the Top". Cheers!
OT AWD and P drive units have the same part number (so identical innards). Any performance related data would need to be tracked on an internal Tesla database. Long thread on this elsewhere.
In the notion of the designer to order a Model 3 there are three different battery types: MR, LR and Performance. Do we know of any difference in the battery pack?
OT (+ weekend) No word of any difference between the LR and LRP packs. There are J and K revisions of the 75kWh pack, but no call out that that is P related. MR is an underpopulated LR pack (maybe using empty cells?). SR will be a different internal design to save cost. Parts catalog is at : https://epc.teslamotors.com/
I wrote a post about this recently, I think in terms of cargo space and ergonomics the Model 3 can hold up with many hatchbacks and station wagons. "Surprisingly spacious" is a common reaction of Tesla first-timers. It won't satisfy all station wagon and hatchback fans - but I think it's a real option to many of them.