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What question would you like to see Tesla answer at Tuesday's annual meeting?

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SteveG3

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I won't put odds on this being effective, but, Tesla has been known to scan through TMC some, and perhaps a member here going to the meeting will consider asking one of our questions as well... so what do you want to see Tesla answer on Tuesday?
 
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Couldn't edit the first post any longer, so, I'll just add here

Last year, or the year before, through DaveT's efforts, Tesla took a list of questions from us before the annual meeting. While it wasn't clear how much they followed through with trying to address those questions at the meeting, at least it shows that they have some appreciation for responding to what we ask as a group of shareholders here.
 
"Help us get a sense of your vision for the medium-term future of the business by giving a guesstimate of the range of revenue (by percent of total) for the following categories in the year 2022: automobile sales, truck sales, Tesla network, solar roofs, Tesla energy, other. This isn't to give a forecast you must be held to... more just to understand what's in your mind regarding significance of the opportunities facing the company."

Note... if automobile sales is <40% of the total, which I suspect it may be, and automobile sales is also >2m cars annually, which I also suspect, then the above answer would imply total revenue in 2022 approx $250 billion or more. I just don't think the market has remotely factored in the full potential for Tesla's growth.
 
Apparently, questions had to be pre-submitted by attendees for the Q&A. Don't know what the cutoff date is for submissions is though.

EDIT: The pre-screening of questions was for the June 2/3 VIP meeting; not the upcoming shareholders meeting, which is the topic of this thread. My apologies for misreading the OP.
 
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If anyone reading this gets the chance to ask a question, please keep your question as short as possible. Do not add your own opinions into the question, do not tell an anecdote, and do not ask a 2 or 3-part question. Elon usually gives honest answers to the questions at hand, and can reveal juicy new information when given room to talk. But if you give a 45-second monologue with the question intertwined he will usually hone in on something you said that is easy to give a canned answer which we've all heard before.
 
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Maybe another way to put it. Will the future model Y platform be a replacement for S&X? Especially since it is planned to roll out in 2020. By then S will be what, 12 years old?
 
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