Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. A few days ago Munro asserted that hybred capacitor/battery power packs were the next big thing. Elon Musk has claimed that the future belongs to hyper-capacitors, and apparently this was his last field of academic research before he left school. It's something you don't hear about much, but Munro seemed enthusiastic and quite sure it was a thing: a major one.
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  2. Tesla's continual optimization of all components of their EVs makes it kind of ridiculous to try to time a purchase to include the latest improvements. No matter when you buy, in the next week there will be further improvements, so you may as well just buy when you want a car (in a few months) because if you are waiting for the ultimate model Y or whatever, you will be waiting forever.
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  3. Well it seems simple to me. If all the Teslas that are produced are sold: and they are, and they are continually ramping up production: which they are, it is only obvious that their market share will be increasing.
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  4. You may have heard about Centralia PA. It is a town in the old anthracite coal region of the Appalachians, where the entire town was evacuated and given new homes because of the underground coal fires. I drive through there twice a week, and strip mining coal is still very active, enough to keep the highways a dirty mess with coal haulers dragging black culm onto the highways from their dirt roads continually, and the toxic black cloud you have to drive through to get past them. It is literally a black cloud that overhangs everything. BUT if you were to stop on the west side of Centralia (which is now about five or six houses who refused to leave, surrounded by empty lots where their former neighbors row houses were bulldozed (they never did get the underground fire put out) and you stopped right at the nearest strip mine operation and their filthy lots full of giant haulers that are too big to use on roads, and you looked back at where Centrailia used to be, you would notice that on the mountain ridge to the east , right above another mining operation, is the first of a series of wind turbines that generate electricity, that start there and follow that mountain ridge for a good twenty miles or so. Coal is death, and then people wonder why they are dying of all kinds of respiratory and metabolic diseases that are caused by coal and ICE vehicles.
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  5. I agree, and people will realize the best use for extreme batteries is not a thousand mile range but a 300 mile range with a much liter car.
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  6. You ever heard the expression "crabs in a barrel'? That's a way that the black community in the South used to criticize the others who would try to tear down any of their neighbors who would advance and begin to make their way in the world. Because you do not need to keep a lid on a barrel of crabs, every time one would climb close to the top, the other crabs would tear them down as they tried to climb out themselves over him.
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  7.  @mnomadvfx  That's not what the science says Elroy.
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  8. Really: ignore the extremists on both the left and the right, they have way too much bandwidth and far to little signal of any real importance.
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  9. Main plus for the Hyundai IMHO -- lifetime battery warranty. Main plus for the Tesla. It is of another generation than the Hyundai. It's like comparing an F14 which was a really cool fighter, to an F22, which is the next generation and vastly superior in engineering and alien tech.
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  10. The objective of commercial media is not to inform you, it is to sell ad space or time. That's it. . . . Tesla does not advertise. It's competition has to. You do the math.
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  11. Funny: I thought that Porsche came up with that idea with the 911.
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  12.  @kmancrx  The planet will be fine, humanity perhaps not so much.
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  13.  @incognitotorpedo42  No. . . but a lot of them are employed by media companies that are in the ad business. Or interviewed by them. So when a director for a media company has the choice of putting on an analyst who is negative on a company that they view as holding out on the advertising vig, it is only natural that they will tend to choose commentary from the analysts whose analysis supports those companies who pay for ad time/space and is negative about those that don't in the hope that this unstated policy may coerce non advertisers into paying up to protect their product from negative spin. In other words your are right about analytical practice, but you fail to consider the effect of the editorial decisions in media companies whose objective is to sell ads, not as is commonly supposed: to inform the public. Yes the tail does wag the dog, but in Tesla's case it only effects the stock price and not the stellar manufacturing and engineering performance.
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  14. With any luck this FUD will cause another dip in Tesla. So strange to want the stock you own to lose value. Just so you can buy more at a discount of course.
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  15. Please refer me to a statement Musk has made, that is not out of context, or made sarcastically or ironically that attempted to "normalize hate towards vulnerable people". If you can venture into the open internet from your safe-space to find the reference (sarcasm warning for the reading comprehension impaired).
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  16. Didn't Elon already say that 4680 would not be iron base?
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  17. You have to crash into every oncoming car or you lose your warranty.
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  18. Considering that the average driver drives about thirty five miles per day this will not be an issue. People will charge at home with an ordinary 220 connection, and it will be plenty for the average person. Also there is nothing at all keeping independent service centers from working on Teslas. And other than collision repairs, just what service do you imagine an EV actually needs?
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  19. Model 3: Number one selling car model in Germany. That says it all.
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  20.  @xianshep  Yep he was just doing his earthling duty by ramming into the invader. Unfortunately for him, alien tech prevailed.
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  21. I have occasion to drive through the most economically repressed area in the USA every week, that being the hard coal region of PA such as Shamokin and Shenadoah, and even there I occasionally see a Tesla. Which I find impressive.
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  22. You do realize that all the Teslas in the UK are sold -- right? That the waiting time is currently increasing? It is not a sales problem. If Tesla delivered less EVs in the UK last month it is because there were less Teslas shipped to the UK.
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  23. I will not only get excited, I will finally build my electric powered WIG hovercraft and not have to deal with a poison belching turbocharged boxer engine. If any craft could fly electric it's a WIG machine, once your on the bubble nothing is more efficient, not wheels, not tracks, not conventional wings, nothing.
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  24. So smart that Elon should consider it.
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  25. Maybe they figured out that they and the CCP did not have similar interests or priorities and that buying a car like that fake MG brand which is actually made by a company owned by the Chinese state is literally working against their own best interests, as far as their future and the future of those they care about is concerned.
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  26.  @mydogsbutler  Musk couldn't care less. The only one you will be hurting is small retail investors and idealistic employees.
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  27. My dad had the patent on the ground fault interrupter circuit that keeps you from being electrocuted in your bathroom, and welders from the same. Same thing happened. Never got a penny from it and it's in every new bathroom for decades.
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  28.  @darylfoster7944  This seems like a silly comment to me. People will still be able to drive manually Elroy -- so no snow-days thanks to FSD -- sorry.
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  29. Huge numbers of people will not want self-driving cars and others will not be willing to pay for it, and all old cars will not be a part of the network. Cars networked together to control traffic will not work, but cars networked to the traffic control signals will. And it will be much safer, will not rely on FSD, and will be a vastly less expensive upgrade to incorporate any old vehicles into such a traffic control network with cheap transponders, or cellular phones. And in areas that do not have it, traffic will still work as it does now.
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  30. That's why the most advanced Chinese EVs are those that copied Tesla's manufacturing tech. Get a brain.
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  31.  @donreinke5863  That makes a lot of sense if you are poor. So if you are poor it is indeed foolish. Not so much for anyone with a middle class or higher income. And at a certain income level, buying a cheap car becomes foolish if you can easily afford the car you really want.
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  32.  @gridjac  I guess you know that before Elon dropped out of school he was doing advanced studies in super-capacitors. I would love to see super capacitors integrated into the electronics of EVs, but I have a feeling that if Tesla isn't working on it, it probably doesn't really make sense.
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  33. The lowest price Model 3 when they first came out in 2017 was 35k and the lowest price 3 that you can order today on Tesla web site is $40,390. In inflation adjusted dollars the present price is 5.16% less expensive than it was five years ago.
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  34. Sir how is it exactly that one megawatt is not equal to another megawatt? I think you may want to check your facts and revise you statement. Especially the one about a megabyte of coal which makes no sense at all.
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  35. I remember when my 69 Z28 was rated at 290hp by Chevy for insurance purposes. At 6500 it had well over 400hp.
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  36. Then I suggest that you short Tesla stock. If you are correct you will be rich. Just don't think about more money being lost shorting Tesla than any other stock in the entire history of the market. You, unlike everyone else that bet against Tesla have a chance of being correct. Put your money where your mouth is.
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  37.  @incognitotorpedo42  Funny how Tesla can produce the best EVs in the world in the USA, with the most American content and labor, and make the most profit of any OEM, and Ford can barely do a decent one in Mexico and make a profit. Something not right there.
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  38. I own about 15x tesla over BYD, but would be willing to change that ratio if BYD dips to 55.55 USD in the next week.
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  39. Nvidia
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  40.  @lanzer22  So that's the stupid comment you made when I told mnomadvfx that his idea that the CT was the worst aero was not based on the science. What are you drunk or what. Pay attention dude.
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  41. To myself and quite a few others: luxury is a carbon fiber wrapped 20,000 rpm motor.
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  42. I don't think that Tesla or anyone else has to prove anything to you. Just don't buy it.
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  43.  @johndair2116  production will tell. Until then there is nothing to invest in.
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  44.  @hvh377  You are apparently talking about the EV market. I am talking about the entire car market: If the late-starters find themselves incapable of ramping up and producing at a profit which seems to be the case, for most, if not all of the other EV OEMs then Tesla's market share will expand as ICE sales falter. And if the late starters attempts are found to be inept as many have been and will be. And because of scale and manufacturing technique Tesla's are not only more advanced but are rapidly becoming less expensive to produce and buy, they will continue to dominate and their market share will increase in spite of the proliferation of competition, AS IT HAS IN CHINA where the competition is fierce and the market is glutted, yet in the long scope and in recent days, Tesla has managed to increase it's market share.
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  45. Plenty of Telslas have over 2k miles with about 80 percent left. The average of model S that is eighe years old is over 90 percent left.
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  46. Better check the progress on the teslabot before you sell, even at that price. People have no real idea what the end of labor will mean. Better take up the violin or something because free time is coming to all.
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  47. I agree, but solely for the purposes of performance and handling.
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  48. Dealing with the German OEMs is like dealing with the mafia. They have proved this over and over.
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  49.  @domtweed7323  Except the bullet you have to pay for yourself when they shoot you for smoking a joint.
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  50. Diesel exhaust is not only toxic, it is carcinogenic. But that probably doesn't matter to you.
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  51. Hardly compares to the medical costs of the people who are unknowingly and without consent having their health undermined by coal pollution.
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  52. Germany was a mistake. Building in Quebec would be an equal mistake.
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  53.  @jamislil2703  So you have an incident of some kind and you hit a curb hard: you don't need your rims straightened or replaced - you need new motors. And you idea that un-srung weight is something that does not affect average car drivers is just misinformed. This design decision was a cheap move to avoid the expense of doing a fine design justice. My advice before you lay any money down is to actually drive one on a less than perfect surface. Many people who support the company dismiss the motor issue as you have: big mistake. This kind of motor would be OK for a fork-lift that ran in a building or something like that.
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  54. It's not really that hard to understand that even though market share has diminished a bit, total Tesla sales has increased greatly because the market in EVs has increased greatly so a few percent decrease in market share is the opposite of what it seems.
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  55.  @radicalrick9587  It's not, ""will" end up very bad for them." It's: "Will end badly for them." If you care at all about the English language.
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  56. Yeh, he got to be the richest man in the history of the world, made the whole EV thing possible, landed the first rocket, is the only US company that can service the space station, is opening up the entire world to internet via the largest network of sattelites, builds the cars with the most American content and labor, is developing some of the most advanced AI infrastructure on earth, and has the biggest most powerful machine capable of interplanetary flight ever built sitting at a space port he built, because of his poor judgement. You must have done much more, a lot better -- aye?
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  57. Wasn't there one developed at Georga Tech a year or two ago that is presently in real commercial development? Can't remember the name.
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  58. Consider this. Tesla just purchased a wireless charging company that has segment leading tech. Elon Musk's last academic endeavor was graduate level development in super-capacitors. Randy Munroe recently hinted that he was presently involved with tech he could not disclose for NDA reasons, but did say it had to do with capacitor/battery hybrid power units. Are you able to connect the dots? Capacitors can take up a large electric charge almost instantaneously, but it must discharge quickly too. A super-capacitor hybrid power unit would in theory, be able to charge in seconds but transfer the charge to the batteries which could run a vehicle. A car with such a power unit will make charging an EV a non event. It would happen as you drove out of your garage, or possibly over certain segments of a roadway at speed, and bill you automatically, and you would be on autopay, so the whole charging thing would just disappear.
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  59. A quite temporary situation having more to do with Russia and the war than anything else. Of course if your goal is to raise FUD then this is important. Even the WSJ used the term "in some cases" over and over. Of course it this does not fit into your Ludite narrative you just ignore the qualifying statement. WSJ also hungers for the billions in ad revenue that Tesla does not need to spend, thus accentuating every negative about Tesla and EVs in general, while GM and other ICE OEMs continue to pay billions every year to sell advertising dreams. Get a brain.
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  60. BYD has yet to make a profit on an EV without gov subs. And their quality sucks out loud.
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  61. The best investment that VW has made in the last decade is the hundreds of millions of dollars it "donated" to the same "environmental groups" that are filing suit after suit to keep Tesla from opening in Berlin. I would have thought that even the German public would have had enough of VW groups continual cheating and abusive tactics by now.
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  62. Trump fans are the guys who coal roll Teslas and key them in parking lots. Maybe they will stop that, but they ain't gonna trade in their F150 for a cybertruck or a Y.
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  63. No, brilliant would be what Tesla did. What Toyota is doing is damage control.
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  64. The Rimac would win, but you would pay thousands of dollars for every .01 of a second faster.
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  65.  @archigoel  Wonder if Ford pays Monro for the research and development that Tesla has done?
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  66. I know what you mean, but the term is used in a narrow sense. IMHO AI will not and cannot be the result of programming, but well may eventually arise from developments in synthetic biology. Artificial life gives rise to artificial intelligence.
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  67. Way to go, glad to hear of your good results.
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  68.  @incognitotorpedo42  They are. The ones sold in/near China are made in China. Only 2 of GMs 9 plants are in the USA.
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  69. So did I Electric dude. I doubled my position yesterday morning thanks to your heads up. I also doubled my position in xpeng, which did 25% today too. And a little nvidia, and REMX. Correction xpeng went up 32% today, byd 24%. Happy am I.
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  70. And to start to overcome the weight problem with most EVs as far as handling and performance is concerned. I personally could easily live with a 2OO mile range car if it had the weight of a ICE sedan and the power of a Kronnegsig, and the cost of a Model 3.
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  71. I live in the USA and lots of things are great. If you live outside of metro areas you may have a problem finding things like interesting conversations and attractive women, but it's pretty much great here. That said, I think I would rather live in a Nordic country because of the lower amount of religious nuts. It's really strange when you consider it: the more religious a countries population is, the lower they rank on the happiness scale ( with maybe some outliers like Bhutan). Guess the insane objective of religion, like saving people's lives after they die, is in opposition to the harmonious and happy life of people while they are actually alive.
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  72. A star among dualee diesel pickup drivers. . . . great.
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  73. I own several Chinese EV OEMS, but I am aware that China has major problems, both domestically, and geopolitically. The end of the Chinese miracle is clearly in sight. They are basically screwed no matter how you look at it. And their policies are so stupid. They don't have and haven't been able to develop a vaccine that works, so they have to enforce a zero tolerance program that shuts down industry. And the truth is they probably started the whole thing in one of their labs. Now they are backing Russia, whose actions are going to lead directly to China not being able to get enough petroleum to continue on course, and what they do get will be at a high price. China is totally dependent on it's adversaries for it's prosperity, and on the middle east for it's oil, and even if it made a full transition to EVs and nuclear and solar, it needs petrol for it's industrial base stocks. No petrol, no plastic, no plastic, no manufacturing of most every consumer good, from clothing to iphones, to EVs. And this is not even considering that all it's oil has to pass through choke points controlled by it's enemies. Then there is the demographic time bomb, which is just beginning to hit. Masses of old people with no social security net, and very few young people to man the factories and take care of them. Demographics do not lie. It's now or never for China because in a decade or so it is so screwed. Maybe the Tesla bot will save them, lol. Their fearless leader has no idea what is really happening in his own country because he has shot the messenger so many times. I like many are counting on China in the short term, but now with the Ukraine thing and the possibility of a shut down in Russian oil that will deplete the world oil supply even the mid term is very shaky. Consider this: the pipelines from Russia to Europe run through Ukraine, lets say they are destroyed by the war, or by sabotage: it's not a matter of shut it down and start it back up. The last time Russia had to shut down the pipelines so the system would not self destruct because of over-pressure it took nearly thirty years to get everything running again, and this was only possible because of western expertise and management. These western experts are no longer in Russia. If the pipeline is shut down, which it will have to be, if either it is disrupted by violence or if Germany decides to no longer pay for the war by buying Russian gas and oil, according to Peter Zehan it will take a minimum of ten years to get it running again. In case you are unaware, there is no viable pipeline from Russia to China. China gets it's oil by supertanker form the middle east. It cannot get it by supertanker from Russia. There are no deep water ports to use. They would have to use small ships and off load to super tankers in NATO territorial waters and that ain't gonna happen. Just some word of warning about overoptimism on a long term future prosperity for China. Unless of course the Tesla bot saves them form themselves. Which actually could happen.
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  74. I can actually believe they are not far off, but that is changing drastically everyday. When people begin to understand that buying a Tesla, even at today's prices, is actually less expensive than polluting the atmosphere that will make a big difference to most. Then when they drive one, that will clinch the deal.
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  75. The shot of robots typing on keyboards: ridiculous.
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  76. I don't think they will even take it off beta until the Insurance companies and regulators beg them to because it is a thousand times safer than the average human and would save so many lives.
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  77.  @rogergeyer9851  Well it is already better than the drunk coming home when you are on your way to work -- all the time. Also better than the semi driver asleep at the wheel -- all the time. If only that drunk had had FSD you would be alive today.
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  78.  @jebes909090  LOL another expert that has no idea what they are talking about. We are talking about engineering not upholstery. Tesla is at least five years ahead of the closes competition in engineering and they are innovating at a faster rate than any other OEM, so no one is every going to catch up to them. They will simply pull further ahead.
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  79. Would you say that if there was a five percent price decrease you would buy? If the answer is yes, then go ahead. Compared to the cheapest new model 3 that was ever availible (2017 $35k) the present lowest cost model3 is 5.16% cheaper in inflation adjusted dollars: at $40,390. If we keep going like this, Teslas will be virtually free at a hundred thousand 😂😂
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  80. Nvidia is pretty good too.
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  81. Just maybe it's because not a lot of Teslas were shipped to Ireland. I mean every Tesla that rolls off the line is sold my friend: so the kind of stats you are quoting may not make the point you are aiming at.
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  82.  @Frank_W.  Ford Foundation, major contributor to CR.
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  83.  @oldbloke204  Yes, a brain.
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  84. I hope Tesla goes down again, but I doubt that is gonna happen. I bought on the dip, but I should have bought more at 889, a lot more. I kind of doubt we will see a big discount for a while, and even then it will be relative to the current price.
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  85.  @johndair2116 I have more or less been playing devils advocate here. I remember seeing a video of that prof from GT in his lab explaining his SSB approach. It was impressive. So thanks for bringing my attention back to this (and his competition). They did great today, but so did most EV related instruments, so I am going to keep a watch on them. Tesla did great today 5.24%. So did XPEV 7.33% and NIO 8.46% and BYDDY 8.56% and my favoite for the day GGPI (Polestar) 11.52% I own them and I love EV! And strangely enough Tesla is still my favorite investment.
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  86. You got it right, you don't understand.
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  87. Tesla is the only EV company in China that can make a profit building cars without state incentives.
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  88. Nobody needs an ev with a 600 mile range. The whole idea is delusional.
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  89. Teslas improve after purchase, which goes a long way to overcoming the new model delusion.
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  90. So the new Cadillac ev that you can't order yet isn't going to be made in China? It even looks Chinese.
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  91. The aerodynamic design of Tesla cars was done by SpaceX engineers.
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  92. And MG, and Polestar, etc.
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  93. He probably works for an OEM or a company that supplies them with parts.
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  94. The lads at Tesla are supposed to be so smart, how could they not known that this would happen?
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  95. Both of these companies he talks about are private, no stock anywhere, and basically irrelevant to present investment.
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  96. BYD, Xpeng, Nvidia, REMX , now you know of those other companies, or etfs as the case may be. But Tesla is the best one IMHO.
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  97. I appreciate your humor but suggest giving an irony alert after such statements for the sake of the irony impaired.
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  98. Why is this so difficult for the Luddites to wrap their heads around? Porsche has been doing the same thing for decades. Only they pretend that the gradual upgrades are new models.
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  99.  @joeking433  Tesla has invested more in new factories in the USA than GM and Ford combined.
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  100.  @timower5850  Who said it wouldn't? Though if NASA liscensed it, it could go a long way in paying their bills. I bet the Chinese will actually manufacture this tech as soon as if not before US companies, because we love their spies so much.
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  101.  @hishamg  And hydrogen is far far less efficient overall. It adds complexity too, which is just stupid for cars, but may be a good thing for mass energy storage.
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  102. I drive through the hard coal region of PA twice a week and I assure you they are stripping the hills as fast as they ever were. Filthy coal trucks on the road continually. They may not be burning as much here but they are still mining as much as ever. Strip operations that had been dormant for decades are hauling coal again in the last few years -- especially since the invasion of Ukraine.
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  103. What's the coefficient of drag? That's where most of the energy is used up in moving the average auto. Below fifty mph or so, a blunt design makes some sense, but if you want to move far and fast you need something slippery or you will just pay and pay to push air out of the way needlessly.
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  104.  @MatthewBayard  Maybe he bought stock because the good things he is saying about BYD are true.
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  105. That is exactly what is and has been happening with US coal.
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  106. I had ARk genetics,, I finally just got sick of seeing a loss each day. I think it lost thirty percent or so in the last year. Everyday I would look at my portfolio and ARK would go down but Nvidia would go up enough to cover my loss. Finally, screw this, it just ain't turning around again. Took a big hit, but glad I got rid of it. Now my Nvidia isn't just covering ARKs losses, it's paying off like clockwork, only stock I own that consistently beats Tesla. I do think there is a big future in genetics but apparently not yet, and maybe better not through ARK. Woods problem is that she is too far ahead of the herd. You lose just as surely as if you are too far behind if you are too far ahead. You have to be right at the front of the mob, not out in front of it.
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  107. Tesla EVs are selling for from 4 to 5k more used than they cost new. This may be part of the reason why they keep increasing the price. IMHO since Tesla should have this money and not wannbe private Tesla dealers, Tesla should offer a next in line fee for those willing to spend an additional 4k to buy a car right now. This would take the money that Tesla is leaving on the table out of the pockets of the used Tesla sellers.
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  108.  @tedmoss  Could be, the rate of inflation has changed since I did the percentage.
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  109. The main reason that certain mods are not allowed in most racing is because they allow the cars to corner at such speed that if their is some glitch, driver error or other screw-up, then someone may well die.
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  110. That sound awesome, and the Tesla megapacks fit right in on Hawaii.
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  111. The bias against Tesla is supported by VW and company and the hundreds of millions of dollars that they donate to fake environmental groups in the hopes that they will delay Tesla in Berlin. They really have nothing on Tesla's level, and Tesla even now out sells Germany cars in Germany in comparable models. All those Teslas that are selling in Germany now could have been made in Germany.
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  112. Here is a good reason not to set up a factory in the UK. In the seventies a relative of mine was the executive engineer of an international company that was building exactly the same plant all over the world. On some of the main components the welders in the UK completed two and a half a day. The welders on exactly the same components in Germany produced an average of ten a day. Nuff said.
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  113. If NMC batteries are considered "super explosive" (which they are not) then a tank full of gasoline must be considered a clandestine therrmobaric device.
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  114.  @joeking433  Joe King you are like a professional shill for traditional OEM. You knowledge is extremely questionable and usually dead wrong. Also if there is anyone who is biased it is you. You wouldn't be so ass hurt if you buy some Tesla stock. Come on admit it. Who do you work for? The union? Affiliated with some dealership? You are a lot like the Russian trolls who accuse the USA of everything the Russians are doing. You can't be so ill informed in reality, it has to be a money thing.
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  115. Didn't realize my ssd array ran on coal. Who knew?
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  116. A couple of billion in shorts by Gates has a lot to do with the recent FUD on all mass media.
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  117. Dude, he as already done that on multiple occasions. But really, at this point Tesla is far ahead of everyone, and if you can afford it, that is the one to get.
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  118. Thank VW group that you are not making the best Teslas in the world in Germany.
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  119. You got the reason they are banned right, not so much about who invented the "fan" car. It was invented by the same guy who invented the wing that you see behind most purpose built or modified race cars -- Jim Hall. He invented the "fan" car in 1970. He's from Texas, which in some areas may resemble Argentina just a little bit, but they are rather far apart geographically.
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  120. I would bet that Tesla will only lower its prices if by some miracle a competitor begins to catch up to Tesla's tech, and charges substantially less than Tesla. If you know of an OEM that meets these parameters please let me know as I may be interested in a purchase. Realistically I will probably just feel compelled to point out how and why your suggestion does not met the first requirement, and if it does, then the price will be out of the ball park.
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  121. Look this is like living among humans 101: The news media's purpose is not to inform you, it is to sell ad space/time. The incredibly negative news on Tesla, which is all bull and irrelevant, should have demonstrated this to everybody by now. They would love to get the billions a year from Tesla that they get from other OEMs. So why would anybody be surprised to be misinformed or uninformed by commercial media? They shouldn't. That's why you channel is worthwhile most of the time. Thanks.
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  122. Why wonder: over eighty percent of ALL news delivered on commercial media is directly from press releases. What? You thought they had research and intelligence --$$$ -- from ads are all that matters: BMW Group is part of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG. The do not approach the 2.7billion that GM spent last year but, spent over $100 million on advertising in digital, print, and national TV in the last year. They invest in premium ad units and advertised on over 250 different Media Properties in the last year across multiple Media formats. Their ad program is transitioning to digital, and they are promoting the use of their cars in Gaming to establish a clientele among youths.
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  123.  @freeheeler09 Well if you have ever been through those big windmill areas in Texas you know there is no shortage of wind there. It is relentless. I don't see how anyone would want to live there.
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  124. Off road with unsprung motors: good luck you are gonna need it.
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  125.  @turtley8883  OH, I agree entirely, its the mining for coins that is possibly the stupidest thing ever devised. Coins could have as easily been allocated based on individual genetic codes or other schemes. But spending real resources for a fictional product that could easily be disseminated otherwise it so beyond stupid, not to mention environmentally negative.
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  126.  @turtley8883  No crypto bets for me: chips, EVs, batteries, they are not doing great either but I am an investor not a trader, so am mostly unconcerned with fleeting fluctuations.
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  127. You can't use sodium in cars, only megapacks and such.
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  128. No factory paint or aftermarket wrap for my CT. I will mask off digital camo and spray it with a few cans of paint. Then If I get sick of it, I will take a brillo pad to it and change the scheme.
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  129. Short races like hill climbs utilize all the benefits of electrics. A 24 hr race is a different story -- for now. . . .
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  130. I agree entirely. I can only think of the Porsche 911 when people complain about the unchanging style of the Teslas. It barely changed for decades and was mostly so ugly that only a real driver could love it. Or the Dodge demon and derivatives: they all look the same year after year. Then their was the king of them all: the VW beetle. I think they still may be making them in Latin America, or did until a few years ago. What was the sense in updating the bug? . . . Perhaps to reduce sales? If they were still making the original VW bus, they would still be selling them. If they took exactly the same hippie bus style and electrified it, they would sell millions of them. But. . . you know, neither you nor I, nor apparently even the market, gets to make such decisions. I personally would much rather have a 69 camaro style with updated everything but the body like Joe Rogan does, maybe even electric. Much much rather have the 69 style Z/28 x33 body with the endura bumpers and all new internals than any of the more contemporary styles. What people really get tired of is not some great design, but their own minds, and their minds have been shaped by a century of conditioning by a manufacturing philosophy based on planned obsolescence which necessitates both intentional inferior quality and the instilled need to chase personal fulfillment through the ownership of designated status symbols with ephemeral longevity.
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  131. You may as well be investing in Russian arms dealers for all the harm your money will do.
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  132. That seems to be the common experience with new Tesla owners. Enjoy.
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  133. Don't know about where you live, but where I live they repave the roads every few years because they need to. All of a sudden I can see the expense of this regular maintenance skyrocketing. Also kind of wonder what would be the effect and cost when some nimrod (propably the same guy who rolled coal on your Tesla) decides to start doing burnouts with tungsten spiked snow tires? I can attest that this is particularly damaging, because at the age of 16 I managed to actually rip up the asphalt for about a half block with my 69 Z28 by trying to lay rubber with new studded tires. This left deep grooves in the road witch eventually filled up with water that froze and over one winter a new asphalt road was basically ruined.
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  134. If you could by an F22 for 334,000,000 dollars, but could buy an F14 for 280,000,000, IMHO you would kind of be a fool to buy the fourth gen instead of the fifth generation aircraft. The fourth gen would be too over priced in this comparison. I submit that this is roughly the relationship between Tesla's tech, and all other EVs, and the gap will widen.
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  135. It's not politics, or ethics, it's the big boys programmed trading that subverted Tesla stock in the face of out-performance in the real world. This is how they get to buy Tesla at bargain basement prices: they know Tesla is going to crush all competition, and they want to own it.
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  136. The can't undercut Tesla on price without losing money on every sale, and it's going to get much worse in the future. Right now, you have to be kind of uninformed to consider any EV other than a Tesla.
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  137. Seems to me it is almost impossible to actually know, what you get when buying a Tesla, especially if do not have first hand experience of ownership over some period. Every Tesla owner that I have surveyed loves their car. And of course they make almost daily upgrades to Teslas. Take the new "track" feature that appeared yesterday on the Plaid. All of a sudden it's an entirely different car. Even the owners of a Plaid only have a continuing estimation of "what they got". With Tesla, "what you get" can only ever be an estimation based on what it is at the moment.
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  138. You mention the Tesla firings: Most commercial media is pushing the fact that Elon Musk fired a bunch of Twitter employees then offered some of them their jobs back as a total gaff. I beg to differ: Intentional or not, it was a great move. Imagine having everything in your life thrown into the wind in SF where the living is great if you are rich and not for anyone else. Imagine how motivated a person would be to return to their choice position after them realizing the extra work that would be necessary to reestablish that career anew. I personally would put forth a super effort to show my continued worth as an employee at that point, and a little later ask for a big raise.
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  139. YouTube does that.
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  140. BYD perhaps?
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  141.  @remliqa  Doesn't matter, these Trumpers are cultists who are immune to both reason and facts. That's why they make up their alternative facts, also known as fictions, with no regard for anything but the way they feel about being left in histories dust bin.
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  142.  @calmorton4619  No.
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  143. Sandy is invested in Aptera -- no?
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  144. You got to keep up here Doug. . . . meaningless.
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  145.  @manuelsevigny6855  That's for sure. On the other hand, the average battery on an eight year old mS still had about 90% of it's original capacity. But a lifetime warranty like the Hyundai sure would dispel a lot of anxiety for those who do not realize that the battery in a well engineered EV will outlast the car in general.
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  146. Don't forget your official Q tinfoil hat to protect you from the Tesla brain waves that Elon is broadcasting.
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  147. Yeah good job VW. Good job giving hundreds of millions of dollars to fake environmental groups to delay the opening of Tesla Giga Berlin. Still acting like the mafia and the misanthropes they are.
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  148. It was known and reported on. I can't believe anyone would buy such a car.
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  149.  @larryc1616  That doesn't keep Texans from buying or owning Teslas, just from having them delivered in Texas, for now. That will change, because even for Texas, it is too stupid and underhanded.
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  150. To hurt Tesla.
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  151. I would say our respective ideation of what "within reach" means diverge considerably. I will not hold my breath.
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  152.  @johndair2116 . . . "As a concept-stage play, the outfit’s High-Content Silicon and Li Metal Anode Cell technology is three years to five years away from critical “D-sample testing,” as InvestorPlace’s Ian Bezek recently noted. And if everything goes as planned through 2025, only then will SLDP investors see quarterly reports sporting revenue as its commercial product debuts. Hope it goes well for them. But, I consider the next two years as critical, so at this point that's not for me. Unless it dips below $5 then I would take a small speculative position. I see an inevitable massive shortage of raw materials for battery chemistries that are already in commercial production as the main area of interest, . . . and mined ag products.
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  153. A common statement from people who actually own Teslas as opposed to the S for brains Ludites who short sell the stock.
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  154. Don't say that too loud, if the Fed thinks that workers will be needed they will continue to screw the pooch.
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  155. Ok, you proved you have no idea what you are talking about even though the facts that prove you wrong are readily available. People in the US want Tesla EVs so bad that they are sold out months in advance. How does that fact square with your fictional right wing belief?
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  156.  @thomaz1963  China has recently opened up more coal power plants than ever before.
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  157.  @Chainyanker007  And at least for the present I have seen reports that BYD EVs are only profitable because of Chinese government incentives. I know that their buses that are made in CA have restrictions that native companies do not have. Tesla has the highest brand loyalty of any OEM, Mercedes is second, but the distinction that owners find in their Teslas is something that so far, most who are critical but have never even driven a Tesla do not really have any comprehension of.
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  158. Dude the fake news story of the pony-for-a-handjob, came out the same day as a monumental put sweep came due, Tesla fell over 50 that day to put the whales who were in on the scam in the money. Quite a co-winky dink aye?
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  159. NorthVolt is building battery factories all over Europe. LG in Canada and USA. Panasonic. etc.
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  160. I would just like to say thanks for all the info that as a hobby investor I would probably not see if it weren't for your timely reports. You turned me onto both the stock that will become polestar, and the one that allows me to easily invest in CATL. Something I would not have had the patients to figure out myself. While my main investment is Tesla which represents slightly more then half of my portfolio, I do now hold about one and a half percent of my total in the polestar and CATL instruments. I think it is early in the game for both of them. One of my best buys has been in a rare earth and strategic metals etf, which shall go unnamed because every time I mention certain instruments, YouTube automatically deletes my comment. Nvidia has also done well for me, but I was in long ago. It is sort of in competition with Tesla in the AI, and FSD, realms and the stock values seem to roughly mirror each other. I also have some BYD and I probably should buy some more of that. I have more or less invested in a stack of ev related instruments, AI, and now robots I guess. Like yourself I am fascinated by all aspects of this industry, and I really don't know why. I usually have little interest in engineering and factories and such. I guess it's the "vision thing". If this thing ever really happens like Elon envisions, it will be an evolutionary quantum leap for human life. The old saying was, "What's good for GM is good for the USA" and at the time that was pretty, though not totally true. Now it's, What's good for Tesla is good for humanity. And that is pretty much true. I cannot wait to see what Tesla does with the incredible earnings it is destined to garner.
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  161. Of course it's fu@kery by the German auto industry. Dealing with the German auto industry is like dealing with the mafia. This is not hyperbole, they cheat and lie any time it is possible to make a buck by cheating and lying. The German banks are the same. They are criminals in all but name. This plant should have been built in eastern Europe, or maybe in Norway.
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  162. Some little vector that the financial media hardly seem aware of it how world events have lined up to escalate EV adoption beyond what the "experts" have been able to realistically anticipate. I am not talking about rare earths, or strategic metals, or the many recent FUBAR international logistics, or even China's self immolation by covid policy. No -- I am talking about Russia. Russia is floundering about, trying every harebrained scheme they can come up with to export oil, and none of them is viable. The pipeline to China is small and outdated, and incapable of meaningful volume, they cannot insure any ships, and have no deep ports for supertankers. Of course PP will continue to be extremely necessary into the foreseeable future, but not for mass transport. Russia is not only destroying Ukraine, it is destroying the only thing it had going for it. In Europe ICE is not even close to viable, both economically and politically. Imagine what the case would be if Tesla Berlin had opened a year earlier than it did. The German fake eviro-shills really shot the whole of their nation in the dick on that one.
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  163.  @hvh377  Look: we know that the over-all car market has shrunk last year, yet Tesla's sales have increased, therefore Tesla's share of the overall car market has increased. The parallax that Tesla's share of the EV market has decreased is meaningless. All it means is, as you said, if you start out with 100% of the market and others move into the market and even if they produce just a few units total, of course Tesla's share of the EV market will diminish as a percentage of the EV market. That is a truly meaningless metric. The kind of bassackward reasoning that is nothing more than rhetoric.
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  164.  @hvh377  You can attempt to justify your comments by various rhetorical means, but even you must realize that your reasoning is warped. The fact that they are increasing market share in itself is not a statistic to "shout about" no one said it was, but you, in an attempt to justify your view, but the rate at which they are increasing production and sales certainly is. I find it hard to believe that you actually believe that you have a valid point here. Because that would mean you have no idea about what is actually happening and only care about contorting words to justify your silly comments -- like a child with no grasp of the difference between reality and their ideas.
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  165.  @hvh377  You are obviously locked into attempting to be right about your response. But you are still not "right". I will repeat again the simple logic of the situation. If the over all car market has decreased, as it has last year. But Tesla has dramatically increased it's production and sales, then logically, Tesla's percentage of the overall car market has increased. If you are still not able to understand this, it is not because it is not logical, it is because you are not using logic. Let's look at it this way: T (Tesla) is a set that is a subset of O (Overall car market) if O has diminished but T has increased, then The ratio of T to O has changed. The change can be expressed by the sentence that the percentage of O that T represents has increased. No way around it. Though I am sure you will try.
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  166.  @hvh377  My friend, if you actually read my second response to you: I did write exactly that. It's still there for you to check if you like. It begins " Look: we know that the over-all car market has shrunk last year, yet Tesla's sales have increased, therefore Tesla's share of the overall car market has increased." I guess you missed it, and went on to explain to me how without data about the overall market my remark could not be deducted. Oh well. Carry on.
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  167. I think it should be called the model T: where the T is the Tesla symbol instead of a T.
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  168. That's not how it works anywhere. Advertising that addresses unconscious desires works even if the people are aware that they are being manipulated. Quite like the placebo effect still working even when people are informed that they are receiving a placebo. Most of the people who think they made the decision to buy a Tesla based on facts alone are deluding themselves. The facts come as rationalizations after the emotions have decided what to buy.
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  169. China has $30 trillion savings in their banking system.
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  170.  @Enforcer_WJDE  Are you referring to the rural banks that froze accounts back in May and began repayment at the end of July, and whose principal execs are now under investigation? Or some other story that I am unaware of?
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  171.  @Enforcer_WJDE  I don't know why I even bother, but if you think that everything in China belongs to the CCP you have like a cartoon image of China. The rest of your pseudo-remedial regurgitation of common geopop tropes is naive, but if you throw enough ill-considered slop against the wall some of it will stick, which is to say some of it will be a vague approximation of what may happen.
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  172.  @sorinelpustiu5674  Actually more frequently than most would expect.
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  173. I hit a large mule dear at 65mph in an old Izusu Rodao with no damage at all, except to the poor deer. Which was totaled.
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  174. Personally I would rather have a lite fast EV with a 200 mile range than a heavy one with a thousand mile range. People are range delusional, they actually drive 35 miles a day and when they drive more they stop to eat and stretch. Or they should stop for a little walk and stretch every hour or so if they have any sense.
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  175. That's right, it will be a traffic network that networks vehicles and traffic signals and will not necessitate FSD, and it will be controlled by governments and be mandatory and inexpensive upgrade and you will probably be able to pay you license fees and or traffic fines through it.
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  176. Or a steam engine, or a refrigerator hum, or the sound of a washing machine, or a rocket.
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  177. Important question . . . not!
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  178.  @nigelpalmer9248  I wonder how an EV would hold up on Uranus? Oh wait, it doesn't matter, if the people on Uranus don't adopt EVs. There are so few of them that no one cares but the two people who live there. I wonder how EVs would work on the slopes of Everest in Nepal? Who cares? Visit a cold gear site if you are so interested. I wonder how EVs would make out in Siberia? Doesn't matter there is no viable road network to use them on, very few roads, and fewer still that are maintained. Take a train, if you can find one.
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  179.  @nigelpalmer9248  There is a big difference between a "viable road network" and a few roads. Perhaps you should learn to read, although I think your comprehension is the real problem -- sonny. Or perhaps you should study the demographics of highways in Siberia, or look at a roadmap of Siberia -- or more accurately a no-road map. As Peter Zeihan points out, the average land in Russia does not produce enough to justify a viable road network, that can be seen in how their military is limited to railroad deployment, because even a few hundred miles from Moscow their are no roads that can handle that kind of traffic. You are a typical buffoon, who comments without knowing the facts on the ground. Before you bother, I know there is a trans-siberian highway, one highway -- einstein, for one of the largest land areas on earth. In most Russian territory if it doesn't move by railroad then it better be able to move by dog sled -- cause their isn't any VIABLE ROAD NETWORK.
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  180.  @StormyDog  People have apparently been able to sell preowned Teslas privately for more than they cost new. Lots of wannabe Tesla dealers making 4 and 5 k per car.
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  181. Much if not most of Ford Credit is not made by financing private buyers cars but by the loans the dealers take out to put cars on their lot. So if a dealer has a five hundred unsold cars on his lot he is paying interest on a loan for every one of them. Dealers do not own the cars on their lots, they own a loan on them. That is why their are periodic rebates to dealers to flush out their cars and order the new model year. So Ford actually makes money on the dealers not selling.
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  182. This would not make sense in a battery restrained environment like we have. Why use more cells than are being used when you can use them to build more cars.
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  183.  @hvh377  Times change and Tesla changes with them, usually ahead of them. You may be keeping some kind of OC score about corporate decisions in the past, but really, what in the heck does it matter? That was then, this is now.
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  184.  @antoniopalmero4063 Test drive it. You most probably will be able to dial in the firmness setting.
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  185. Where I live it takes about five minutes to change you electric usage to totally green and it actually costs less than the regular mix. That's great, but the fact that the vast majority of people have never taken five minutes to help reduce CO2 by making the switch and save money to boot sort of give you the real reading of the public not giving a flying F about the whole thing. And that is the real shame of it.
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  186. I could understand if FSD were the only issue but that is far from the case. People seem to think that an EV is an EV, nothing could be further from the truth. On the YouTube channel What Car? They tested several EVs in a video titled How far can electric cars REALLY go?? – we drive 12 until they DIE! Tesla, BYD & more. I would put the link but sometime that causes my comments to be deleted by the YouTube AI overlords. So if you are interested in what distinguishes Teslas from other EVs you can watch Monroe Live and see the engineers astonished by Tesla's tech time after time, but that is really only appealing to people who like tech. Or you can watch something like the vid I recommend which explains why Tesla is superior to a Merc EV that actually has a few miles better range at a 20k higher price. No other company can match Tesla technology, though the smart ones (like Toyota and some in China) are attempting to copy it. That is not to even mention the fact that some people pay nothing to charge their EVs and even power their homes because of powerwall arbitrage agreements with power companies. I have seen people astonished when their monthly electric bill was less than two dollars after being nothing or even negative because of this program. You can always buy five year old tech from a German company for more than a Tesla. The same companies that have cheated for years all the people on earth with their computer scams on exhaust emissions. Volvo make fine cars but like many "European" OEM their evs are made in China, not necessarily a bad thing, if you want to support the CCP. Thought they are still a decade behind Tesla and will never catch up because Tesla is pulling further ahead by the week.
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  187. Never heard that but I did hear a NYC conman say over and over that we will be mining "Clean Coal". Just another lie from the champion of lies. Over 30k confirmed lies during his term in office.
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  188.  @stefan2796 "Clean coal" -- one of 30,000 confirmed LIES told while in office.
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  189. What happened? They acquired it. Where do you think the dry process came from?
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  190. You information is vastly incorrect. Take just mined nickel, for example, Russia is third, Indonesia is first and produces three hundred percent more nickel than Russia. New Caledonia is fourth, a tiny island country and it produces two thirds the total mined nickel that the huge country of Russia does. Tesla has recently signed contracts with a New Caledonia based company. In lithium Russia is not even in the game. It doesn't even appear in Kitco's top seven and the seventh is not all that big a producer while Australia is number one by far. In aluminium it is third, should say was third, because with the present situation I would bet that Russian production is falling off what it was. Similarly in uranium mining Russia was sixth, but perhaps no longer. So of all the metals you mention, your statement was only correct for two of them. Gordon Johnson like accuracy of information. Well done.
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  191. In inflation adjusted dollars the least expensive model 3 is over 5% less expensive now than it was in 2017!
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  192. I call it the Tesla model T. With the T being the Tesla logo that appears on their cars.
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  193. Will do. Thanks for the only really worthwhile comment (including my own).
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  194.  @markthomas7279  Besides you?
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  195. Especially those that are compelled to buy the raw materials at market spot. Considering the supply problems, the seeming return to the good old days of industrialized war, and China's dominance in production: strategic metals and rare earths are almost guaranteed to be scarce and or expensive for years, unless the war powers program in the USA actually addresses this problem and is not just another pork barrel contrivance.
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  196. And Bezos is correct. Eventually heavy industry will be off-planet solar powered.
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  197. Money talks. The object of the media is not to inform you, it is to sell ad space/time. Tesla does not give them money and is hurting the companies that do. What else could be expected?
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  198.  @rogerstarkey5390  True, but right now there is no point in it since they are selling all the cars they can produce without dropping the price.
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  199. Hardly. . . however if all cars were FSD AND networked together then it would be a thing of the past. And actually there would no longer be a need for traffic signals at all. Think about that when you are waiting for a green light at 2AM with no one else on the road.
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  200. As I understand it: sodium will be good for large megapack type installations, not for cars because they do not have enough energy density.
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  201. I like the design of the Y better even though it is old.
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  202. The elephant in the room is the pric3e of the cybertuck. No way it is going for anywhere near 50k.
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  203.  @mwolrich  NO they won't. Government will never mandate compulsory FSD, and networking all cars together and eliminating traffic control signals is just asking for headaches, while networking cars to traffic control signals will work and allow anyone to do what they want to: drive themselves or let a program do it. And if you really think about it, there is no advantage that this scheme has over networking traffic control signals and lots of disadvantages.
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  204.  @mwolrich  Your misunderstanding of my preposal is epic. And I don't have the time or inclination to correct you. But your initial statement is ridiculous, if cars are networked together and the network controls traffic they will all have to be FSD, no way around it.
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  205. To me battery swapping makes more sense than hydrogen and battery swapping makes no sense at all in the light of battery evolution. Why complicated everything unless future repair revenue is the object. I love the new Hyundai Prophecy most and the ionic based on it second. I like the styling more than a Tesla, but like the Tesla 3 and Plaid more overall. Would love to see a 3 plaid.
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  206. I was just thinking about that yesterday: how great it would be if all countries had FSD so a Tesla rental would take care of a lot of issues.
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  207. Hell, I own BYD and I bet you do too.
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  208.  @FireTheHoker  I guess they were out of them by the time you got there. Megacastings, FSD, structural battery packs, etc.
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  209. That is incorrect. Tesla will not use an Iron phosphate chemistry in 4680. Elon said this months ago, but people keep making up their own scenario. It will not happen. You will not be able to charge 4680 from 0 to 100 pct without degrading your pack.
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  210.  @tedmoss  Don't forget North Korea. North Korean evs qualify for the tax break, Tesla doesn't and is still killing it with those who appreciate a car a generation ahead of everyone else.
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  211. Heated seat, AC seats, A/C, electric windows, etc. etc. All bull, give me a totally analogue roadster with a stiff suspension and a manual transmission anytime. But then I love to drive, and I don't live in a place with traffic jams or crummy roads. I live in a place where the winding mountain roads are like a billion dollar amusement ride if you have the right ride. I guess I don't have much chance of Tesla releasing a stripped down roadster with a decent price and no AC or electric windows or any of that other pussy totally unnecessary rot, but I do have the hope that some time in the future Tesla will be able to drastically cut the weight on it's performance models. Until that happens and they have something that can handle like a sports car and not cost a fortune I will stick with waiting for my cybertruck. Then I will get rid of my SUV and just keep the old pre electric steering Miatas, and S2000. That will cover all the bases nicely.
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  212. These people are just ignorant. They think that Musk owns Tesla. He only owns 13% of Tesla. Most of it is owned by small retail investors that support the best EVs in the world and cleaner air. Tesla could go broke and Musk would still be the the richest guy in the world. His stake in spacex is more than his stake in Tesla.
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  213.  @tedmoss  Oh, it's gonna happen.
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  214.  @sunrisejak2709 That's all perception, and spin. Tesla is solid in the real world. The market is hysterical from day to day, and thos hysterics are meaningless for investors as opposed to traders. NO competition on earth. A decade ahead of every other EV OEM. About 67 billion dollars have been lost shorting Tesla stock. That should tell you all you need to know regarding spin as opposed to the manufacture of superior technology.
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  215. Ford, Mercedes, GM, VW group this is SOP. And doesn't really compare to them deciding that it is cheaper to pay a wrongful death suit now and then instead of installing seat belts, which actually happened at GM, and you know about VW and Mercedes continual cheating on omissions, it's not because of a difficult time, this happens all the time. It's not just Trump that stiffs his contractors.
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  216. As opposed to what? . . . uncolored paint?
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  217. I can tell by your posts that you are kind of reality challenged but surely even you can understand that a lower percentage of a bigger pie gives a bigger piece of pie than a higher percentage of a smaller pie. Think about it, if you are not totally brain locked. Or try this, you may be able to understand it this way. Tesla is selling more cars this year than they did last year even though they have a lower percentage of the total EV market, because the market has grown tremendously. I hope that makes sense to you. But if it doesn't or you still think that Tesla is in trouble, you can rest assured that your are expressing your inability to understand basic math.
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  218. Looks like an old Jag sedan. 61 Jag MK2
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  219. Problem is, that Musk is acting like a jerk and is associated with Trump, and Trump is going to drive the economy into a ditch, it already started. The last pres to downsize the CIA was Carter, and they devastated the economy to get rid of him. Trump done F'd with the wrong people. Prepare for a real recession, that will make the populace hate Trump, maybe the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency.
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  220. My favorite EV. Tell me that what the world doesn't need is a Tesla model 2 roadster McMurty edition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oje38PLDQmY
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  221. Contrary to stopping work on the cheap EV to work on the cybertruck, the message I took away from Elons report is that the cybertruck was also put on pause.
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  222.  @christinearmington  What's your point?
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  223. I posted my current positions in EV on your channel and it promptly disappeared. ???
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  224. It is so simply really -- every Tesla that is produced is already sold.
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  225.  @kadmow  Fortunately most ev batteries are over 90% recyclable.
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  226. No doubt it is a cool design, the body work anyhow, but are you sure you want a car with the motors in the wheels? If you answer is yes -- really? Do you realize the repercussions of that design decision? And. . . three wheels, there will be no way to avoid pot holes except driving entirely around them. Might be OK in Australia IF you stay on really really smooth roads. There is, you know, a good reason why the primary method of improving the handling characteristic of a car, or bike, is to reduce un-sprung weight. This design has the motors in the freaking wheels! What do you think that does to un-sprung weight. I would buy one except for that one huge design flaw. Move the motors out of the wheels and I would buy one today -- or when available, but not like that. You call it a "racecar" are you kidding? This is the furthest thing you could get from a race car. There are no race cars with the motors in the wheels. For good reason.
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  227.  @mikel4879  Silly boy, just buy an old Miata, if you actually love to drive. Even Jay Leno introduced his Miata on his garage show by saying, "This is all you really need. . . ." So get a real divers car, an old Miata, more fun to drive than a vette or Mustang and cheap to buy and run. I mean if you can't afford a used Miata, you should consider immigrating to the west or something. If you don't like Miatas you're not really a driver or car guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1qgtCt1jG0
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  228. Drake Landing Alberta Canada gets 100% of it's home heating from solar. How come they can do it with snow and crap weather and you can't in the UK?
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  229.  @SagelySquirrel I was referring to the community featured in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqHYNE2QwE
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  230.  @MNTrader2012  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqHYNE2QwE&t=135s
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  231. Dude I am way retired, and counting on my Tesla stock to buy my cybertruck with it's profits, which it now can.
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  232. Germans have the quirky ability to remain self-righteous, while cheating and attacking you. I know this, I am one.
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  233.  @restonthewind  Good point. Apparently not just whores but investor scams and fake comments also get a by.
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  234. See my OP about why this will not be the case.
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  235. In the future car networked together will be sketchy if it happens at all among different brands, but all cars networked to the traffic control signals will happen and will be a giant step in efficiency and safety. No more sitting at red lights with no opposing traffic, just cruising through a city at night without stopping at all, entire lanes of highway that would switch directions as congestion dictated. This is the vast improvement that will come. And billions of dollars will be saved both in energy used, the collisions that don't happen, reduced wear and tear on parts, and vast savings in time.
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  236.  @benjaminsmith2287  If your decisions are made on whats under the sheet metal instead of whether or not you like the shape of the sheet metal -- Tesla has no competition in the USA or anywhere else -- IF your decisions are based on functional engineering and aerodynamics. If they are based on other factors like the emotional appeal of a certain style, there are the Fords, the Hyundais, the Lucid, the Polestar, the GM trucks and car, the Nissan, the Toyota, the mini, the Audis, the BMWs, the Mercedes, the Pinafarina, the Porsches, the VWs, and the Rimac. And probably some others that I couldn't think of.
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  237. Good question. It obviously has not been answered or even addressed in the replies. Their must be a difference if this tech has a new patent, yet it was not explained or noted. One difference is that the inventor of this method said it lends itself to scaling up, while apparently Tesla is currently attempting to scale up it's dry method. However there could be many differences in methodology of preparing the electorde compound and depositing it or just minor differences -- none of that has been addressed here.
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  238. I agree viking, the leaders, especially politicians are the problem. The scum rises to the top, in the popularity farce of politics, in an age that loves scumbags.
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  239. I keep thinking that unfortunately the days of deep discounts may be coming to an end. I hope not. Ideally Tesla would plummet down to five hundred for a month or two. That's what I would like best.
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  240.  @MatthewDouglas805  Sounds right.
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  241. Some "people" are so concerned about the robust build of the CT being a threat to other autos. I guess they haven't noticed the robust build of hundreds of thousands of Mack Trucks on the road. Get hit by a Mack, or any strongly build truck or semi, loaded with fill or coal, doing the typical 65mph on a two lane blacktop and suddenly the hardy CT is a pussy cat in comparison to what it would do to your Toyota or F150, and your body. Your crush zones and airbags ain't gonna do diddly-squat when your entire vehicle is squashed like it's been in a garbage compactor, or just ripped to pieces. I guess we should get rid of all trucks and busses and heavy equipment transport? . . . imbeciles.
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  242. You are apparently correct. They could kill with price reductions if they wanted to. In the future they will even have more hammer at their command.
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  243. Chinese companies get the benefit of their government viewing loosing money to put other countries businesses out of business as a policy. Just look at what the EU has turned up in it's investigation of the Chinese EV export market and the 20% plus tariffs it will apply to them. Sam may be all gaga over the "deals" he can get on Chinese EVs and I wouldn't be surprised if he is in their pocket to some extent. In the long run they will actually have to really charge what it costs plus, and when there is no competition left, try appealing to the Chinese for sympathy. Good luck with that with a country that makes your family pay for the bullet that they shot you with if found guilty.
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  244. Our savior from a fantasy.
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  245.  @johnmccoll1611  "archives heel" brilliant bud.
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  246.  @johnmccoll1611  I should have figured that out for myself. Was kinda funny though.
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  247. Yeah, seems like it.
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  248. Just who are you buying the car from? Did you give them any money? Did you sign any contract or other papers? Something sounds fishy. Just get a Tesla.
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  249. Won't be called Model 2, but it may be called the model T.
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  250. They are blaming Elon for women wanting to have his babies? If they had giga-cash any woman fool enough to have sex with them would want to have their babies too, instead of insisting on them chipping in for an abortion.
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  251.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Right here on other videos. And other places too.
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  252.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Sorry my time is too valuable to do research for you. Believe it or don't, or find out yourself.
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  253.  @hanshengzhang619  Both Buffet and Woods sold off some BYD recently. BYD didn't sell as many EVs in China as Tesla did. I hope they do well cause I own them, but they are no Tesla. And really not much chance of them getting into the USA without tariffs. Don't know where you are getting your figures from, but Tesla delivered 100,200 EVs in China in November -- BYD sold 90k EVs in China in November. Your figures must have come from the CCP or Reuters or some other FUD packers. The problem with BYD is not sales, it is the CCP. There are big questions as to whether or not China will evern exist as it is now in another ten years. Peter Zeihan, the political demographer that predicted the invasion of Ukraine five years before it happened claims that China will self-destruct before the decade is out. That it the major threat to BYD investors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzT38jCUpgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExjCHkDotW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpU5DKR2BBs My advice to you is that if you live in China, get the fuck out if you can -- soon. Within my lifetime the Chinese were eating the bark off of trees and each other to stay alive, don't get caught in what is coming.
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  254. Aptera carries its motors as UNSPRUNG weight. So -- should be a no go if you understand anything about handling and what would happen on anything but super smooth roads without any fun curves in them.
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  255. Tech anticipation is a fools game. You can delay a purchase forever waiting for the next big thing. The tech will keep advancing forever.
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  256. So it seems.
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  257. Nope, not close to saturation. Just not enough Teslas shipped to fulfill the market.
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  258. Good points.
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  259. Trump is doomed, and Tesla is not going to do good in a recession. The last man to down size the CIA was Jimmy Carter. Many of the operatives that were given the boot had expertise in destabilizing governments and targeted economies, as evidence by their previous work in South America, and elsewhere. Many of these operative went to work for the RNC. Just by "coincidence" the Arabs embargoed oil, just by coincidence the US embassy in Iran was attacked and the staff taken hostage. Just by "coincidence" the rescue mission was a failure. Just by coincidence the US economy went into a tail spin and there were lines of cars for miles at gas stations IF that had any gas, and lines around the block at the SS offices nationwide. Just by coincidence the hostages in Iran were released the day Ronald Reagan won the election. Just by coincidence the man who had been the head of the CIA was his vice president, and the future POTUS. You are already seeing where the economy is going. Get ready for a real recession. One that will make the public squeal with pain. That is how they got rid of Carter, who was at least an honest man, and that is how they are going to get rid or Trump and his flunkys -- wholesale. I will be amazed if both Trump and Vance live for another four years. They done F'd with the wrong people, and you can already see where this is going. Unfortunately we will all feel the pain until Trump and his band of stumble bums is gone. Cause they are going to wreck the economy, and in his ignorance Trump is even helping them.
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  260. Not a problem, the only girl and boy racers to have a Tesla will have their parents Tesla and Teslas can already be speed restricted for different drivers via present software.
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  261.  @brendanpells912  Hope they never do that, but instead continue to reduce the weight, and offer more performance options as packages. I think most of the people you are referring to as racers hate teslas for some irrational reason and buy ICE vetts and Dodge Demons and such, though I can see the distaste for how heavy EVs are in general.
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  262.  @brendanpells912  Just buy a Leaf. Or an MG, there are plenty of other choices that fit your criterion. Or wait for the less expensive Tesla that may never appear.
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  263.  @brendanpells912  For someone so concerned about safety, I find it amusing that you do not mind emitting carcinogenic exhaust fumes for yourself and everyone else to breath. I think perhaps your priorities are slightly skewed.
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  264. You are missing the real most important point: diesel exhaust is not only toxic it is carcinogenic, and bad for the environment as a whole.
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  265. I have close relatives that work in magic eight ball design. Their resounding comment when people predict the future is that these prognosticators still have fundamental space/time issues to even have a clue about. Baring the use of extra-galactic remote tachyonic technology leveling surveys or EGRTTLS (which will not be developed until 2134) they assert quite confidently that accurate predictions of future events, even for those who unlike you relatives have all associated data on a subject including unpublished, unreported, and secret proprietary data, have no ability to predict the future more accurately than the original Magic Eight Ball.
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  266. FRANKFURT -- Tesla was the biggest winner in Germany last month as electric cars continued to gain market share in Europe's largest vehicle market. Tesla's new-car sales grew 234 percent as the wider German market plunged 32 percent to 198,258 registrations, according to data from the KBA motor authority.
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  267. Maybe but I wish my BYD was doing as good as TSLA, and I wish both of them were doing as well a Nvidia
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  268. Don't forget, the kickbacks, the free demos, the special hand built magazine cars that are given for long term testing with free gas, the ad dollars, the all expense paid junkets to preview models, all of which Tesla does not do, and all the other OEMs do.
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  269.  @keithnance4209  That is good advice, especially since people have been making 4 or 5k over list flipping Teslas in the private market. But somehow I don't think that he will heed it.
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  270.  @JoelBergmark  It's funny that to my knowledge their has been one battery fire death in a Tesla that was driven into a tree at ninety miles an hour by a drunk driver. This was reported on the cable news channels on an hourly basis. Of course that same year over three hundred and fifty people died in ICE fires in the USA and there were over a hundred thousand fires reported in ICE in the USA alone, yet there was not one mention of this in the same media that obsessed over the Tesla fire. If they are so "explosive" where are all the deaths? The news would love to know, so it could punish Tesla for not paying to advertise with them.
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  271.  @Roshiyu  That was sarcasm. Tesla has absolutely no interest in Bolivia, although partisan puddin' heads will believe the rumors that it wants Bolivian lithium. Tesla gets none of its lithium from Bolivia, but has huge interests in Australia, which makes far more sense logistically, politically, and Lithium Australia just invented a process that derives 95% of the lithium from raw materials without heat and far less pollution. If I were Tesla I would buy that company yesterday. That's the problem with Twitter, sarcasm and irony are often taken for their opposite. So that is what about Bolivia, which was years ago, and was deleted because it was misunderstood: apparently by people just like yourself. I am still waiting for an example of how he "normalized hate towards vulnerable people". I mean you have to be so much of an idiot to hate someone so much that you go back into his college days and try to justify your own image that you have projected onto someone who is just a brilliant but goofy anomaly with asbergers, that I find amusing and actually a sign of hope that the younger generation can actually do significant meaningful things. You people really need something, I don't know what, but you are blind to the great things this goof has done and pull up every bit of minutia that doesn't fit in with you hobbled idea of what a perfect human would do. What the hell have you done? Maybe that's the question you should be asking yourself.
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  272. I agree, but also I consider the spread of a usable 100% charging profile to eat away a bit of the advantage of the nickel based chemistries at present.
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  273. That's funny, the report that I read claims that the average Tesla S that is eight years old still has over ninety percent left. Guess one of you is wrong. I would bet that it is you.
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  274. When all cars are FSD and networked together then there will be no further need for traffic signals and traffic will flow, and the public will save billions of dollars on brakes, gas or kws, insurance, collision repair and wear and tear because no cars will be stopping when it is unnecessary. No more stops signs, no more red lights at 2 am with no other cars in sight.
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  275. Wow CNBC tells some truth about evs for a change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DbRyeZNRk
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  276.  @vanrozay8871  Not only that but most of America between the coasts and college towns smells like cow manure. Or maybe that is the content of their brain dead right wing hate radio and fundamentalist idiot radio stations stinking up the air.
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  277. Carbon fiber is often layed-up in resin but it is not a resin. You mean carbon fiber composite, not resin.
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  278. Strange: I thought Tesla's OTA upgrades and continual incremental improvements on already purchased vehicles is almost the opposite of what you are claiming.
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  279. They are "sales" and typically the OEM will finance the dealers new car inventory at sweet-heart interest rates or even rebates on finance charges. They don't "dump" the cars at dealerships, the manager/s spec them out and order what they guess will sell best at their store.
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  280. Great, not really, pretty good is where N Korean evs are at.
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  281. That's exactly the problem with the Apthera: unsprung motor weight.
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  282. Chinese stability is the biggest threat to BYD. The man who predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine five years before it happened, Peter Zeihan, predicts that People's Republic of China will not be around for another decade. So . . . nothing is set in stone, or even concrete.
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  283. And riding a horse is ten times more dangerous than driving according to insurance stats.
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  284.  @machoopichoo2  Maybe the industry known in Hollywood as The Industry? But then . . . who knows.
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  285. Should be called the model T: both for Tesla and as a homage to the first commonly affordable ICE and now the first affordable Tesla, and of course for Thor, who had quite a lot to do with lightning and by association electricity.
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  286. So you don't want to buy Tesla until it is no longer on sale. . . . brilliant. Your argument makes no sense at all. They are delivering cars in months depending on the model you want, and the whole thing is you are taking their fantastic success and making it sound like failure. You seem really really confused about what is going on.
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  287. Should be an easy mod.
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  288. They will just take a different tack. Brake packages, aero, carbon fiber wheels, and who knows what else.
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  289. Gold is only as good as what you can buy for it, like cash. If the SHTF no one will trade you food or bullets for gold. What would they do with it? make jewelery?
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  290. Coal is still being mined like there is no tomorrow, just burned elsewhere.
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  291. "free will" lol. is nothing more than an archaic concept. If you have free will, then you could tell me what you are going to think next, and if you think you can tell me what you are goiing to think next, you are delusional. Which coincidentally is exactly what the concept of "free will" is: a delusion.
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  292.  @danharold3087  Being lazy and liking to push people around are the two top real reasons people become cops.
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  293.  @tedbundy2379  Sure you did. . . You made a fortune, that's why your here. To educate the rest of us. . . . moron.
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  294. Don't forget the Bentley. It has the highest yearly loss of value of all autos, an average of 20k a year. But what luxury!
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  295. Bentley is a car for people with more money than brains. Of all the cars on earth Bentleys depreciate the fastest, an average of 20k per year. Even people with loads of money are usually not that stupid. It doesn't matter at all if Bentleys EV will be faster than a Tesla, not one bit. Real competitive cars don't have to compare themselves to other cars to gain attention, only wannabe cars need to do that. They wannabe a Tesla so bad, but they are five years to late, and always will be.
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  296. Recycling is EVs friend. Go in your garage, shut the door and turn on your gas or diesal vehicle. Hang out a while. Now try the same thing with an EV -- OH sorry, you won't be able to, because you will be dead. That should tell you all you need to know. And stop asking Jesus to come on you.
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  297. It's all because of the legalized form of corruption we have in the USA called campaign contributions. Dealerships, and dealership investors just sluice money into the coffers of politicians and in turn the politician protect the dealerships from competition from internet sales. Very cozy, very obvious, very criminal in spirit if not in letter. I think this will go under eventually as dealerships go under and the scumbags look elsewhere for their funding.
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  298. Put a dummy or passenger in the other seat with a fake steering wheel.
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  299. This reminds me of the questions in IQ tests "Which one of these things does not fit the set?" Let's see: battery development -- real resources expended for improvements in a real product, EV evolution -- real resources expended for improvements in a real product, genomic research -- real resources expended for improvements in a spectrum of products, crypto -- real resources expended in the pursuit of a fictional product. Hmmm, which one doesn't fit? Beats me.
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  300.  @turtley8883  maybe -- but ultimately the market may stop it. AS I understand it, most of the computing involved in mining is just busy-work. The government of Western Australia issues crypto backed by physical gold, I find that an intriguing issue, that never really got any play.
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  301.  @lesliecarter4295  Pretty cool, for a hybrid. But the hybrid part is not the fuel and motors, it is the battery. They add hydrogen but don't burn it. They use it to generate electricity to help power the motors. So really, wouldn't it have been more efficient and less complex to just do battery swaps during a race? They, could possibly just take seconds if fully automated for application in a racing scenario. One thing for sure, no sanctioned event is going to allow any "fan" cars to compete. Maybe someday there will be a breakthrough in the skirt material that will allow it to sort of terrain-follow on a micro level to maintain low pressure. Even the Speirlng's use of redundant fans won't matter if for any reason the skirt looses its seal in a turn.
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  302. Not stuck at all. The lowest price Model 3 when they first came out in 2017 was 35k and the lowest price 3 that you can order today on Tesla web site is $40,390. In inflation adjusted dollars the present price is 5.16% less expensive than it was five years ago.
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  303.  Ululu Kululu  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww_LNrJYHs
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  304. I am not blaming anything on China except that they are a dictatorship, but basically they are screwed.
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  305.  Ululu Kululu  China would never even had prosperity at all if it wasn't for the west investing and trading with it. If USA ends trade with China, China is dead in the water, but the USA will be fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMtHrpAudQ4 Perhaps you are not old enough to remember, but I remember the Chinese eating the bark form trees because of famine brought about by their fearless leaders. Then Nixon opened China, and they began to prosper, and steal all the tech they were capable of, and not pay for patent use etc, etc. etc.
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  306.  Ululu Kululu  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3kIsW4KEM
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  307.  Ululu Kululu  Oh, I forgot, I am blaming China for Covid, despite their underhanded secretive ways, there is just too much evidence that it escaped form a lab in the same city where it all began. Millions of deaths, thank China's totalitarian a holes.
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  308.  @weewahgan6922  Think so? I will give you odds that that is not what happened at all. More likely the Corolla driver drifted off of his side of the road with his front left tire and corrected too sharply to get back on the asphalt which was wet and caused him to slide into the CT. Of course that is just a guess, but not a stupid guess like yours. And just remeber Einstein, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and in my eye you have one hideous mental appearance, physical too.
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  309.  @lanzer22  I did start with why. You obviously have a reading comprehension problem or you wouldn't have directed your post to the wrong person in the first place. Perhaps you are a noob and didn't deserve to be insulted in the first place, but now you do, for persisting in your error.
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  310. What country are you in?
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  311. BYD does face some US gov restrictions, even on its American Bus manufacturing. This is unfortunate and short sighted on the part of the US gov.
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  312. You can't compare a vehicle with unsprung motors in the hubs and a car that can actually go up hills, drive on ruff roads, and has some refined handling characteristics. Aptera screwed the pooch with it's decision to use off the shelf hub motors, which are unsprung and therefore the opposite of good handling.
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  313. Depends on the gel coat used. Raw carbon fiber composite is rarely used because of this issue.
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  314.  @mydogsbutler  Well you have been the victim of misinformation: social security and medicare and medicade are off the table. It is not Musk's company, he only owns 13 percent of Tesla, most is owned by small retail investors that believe in the good that Tesla has done for humanity. Tesla could go bankrupt and Musk would still be the richest man in the world. Musk pays his taxes always and never complained or tried to cheat. You are like a rabid person who is drowning in hatred fueled by a totally biased media. What you don't understand is that almost all reporting about Tesla is BS: why? Because unlike Ford, GM, and the other OEMs Tesla does not pay billions of dollars a year to advertise their products. Last year GM spent over two billion dollars on ads. The mass media has been trying to shake Tesla down for that ad vig for years. The actual truth about Musk is that everything he does has one aim, and that is to insure the survival of mankind during the next inevitable extinction level event. While a billion people with ten dollars each may be able to buy a happy meal each, one man with ten billion dollars or more could actually allocated the resources necessary to give humanity a change at survival. Musk is into efficiency he has developed the most efficient production methods on earth. The government is rife with corruption, kickbacks, and graft, and he sees this as standing in the way of his ultimate goal, which is to insure human survival. Get a life you hate filled fool.
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  315.  @mydogsbutler  Well you have been the victim of misinformation: social security and medicare and medicade are off the table. It is not Musk's company, he only owns 13 percent of Tesla, most is owned by small retail investors that believe in the good that Tesla has done for humanity. Tesla could go bankrupt and Musk would still be the richest man in the world. Musk pays his taxes always and never complained or tried to cheat. You are like a rabid person who is drowning in hatred fueled by a totally biased media. What you don't understand is that almost all reporting about Tesla is BS: why? Because unlike Ford, GM, and the other OEMs Tesla does not pay billions of dollars a year to advertise their products. Last year GM spent over two billion dollars on ads. The mass media has been trying to shake Tesla down for that ad vig for years. The actual truth about Musk is that everything he does has one aim, and that is to insure the survival of mankind during the next inevitable extinction level event. While a billion people with ten dollars each may be able to buy a happy meal each, one man with ten billion dollars or more could actually allocated the resources necessary to give humanity a change at survival. Musk is into efficiency he has developed the most efficient production methods on earth. The government is rife with corruption, kickbacks, and graft, and he sees this as standing in the way of his ultimate goal, which is to insure human survival. Get a life you hate filled fool.
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  316.  @mydogsbutler  Well you have been the victim of misinformation: entitlements like social security and medicare and medicade are off the table. It is not Musk's company, he only owns 13 percent of Tesla, most is owned by small retail investors that believe in the good that Tesla has done for humanity. Tesla could go bankrupt and Musk would still be the richest man in the world. Musk pays his taxes always and never complained or tried to cheat. What you don't understand is that almost all reporting about Tesla is BS: why? Because unlike Ford, GM, and the other OEMs Tesla does not pay billions of dollars a year to advertise their products. Last year GM spent over two billion dollars on ads. The mass media has been trying to shake Tesla down for that ad vig for years. The actual truth about Musk is that everything he does has one aim, and that is to insure the survival of mankind during the next inevitable extinction level event. Perhaps you don't understand or care what inevitable means or why it is so, or why it could happen anytime? While ten billion people with ten dollars each may be able to buy a happy meal each, one man with a hundred billion dollars or more could actually allocated the resources necessary to give humanity a change at survival. Musk is into efficiency he has developed the most efficient production methods on earth. The government is rife with corruption, kickbacks, and graft, and he sees this as standing in the way of his ultimate goal, which is to insure human survival.
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  317. What the heck is a "based thing"? What the heck does it mean to be "based" into corporate interests? Why learn English, when you can just make up your own meanings for words -- aye?
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  318. The reason Elon pushed back against the Democratic Party attacks on him is because they were nothing but a bunch of lies and intentional disinformation. The puddin' heads on the extreme left are just as bad as the wingnuts on the extreme right, and people are getting sick of them both. For every imbecile that thinks Elon Musk is identical to the projection of the part of them that they have attempted to suppress because they are just approximations of real men and women, there are two knuckle-dragging Q believers on the right who think that Trump is the rightful president. These people are. . . what's the word. . . oh yeah -- STUPID -- yeah that's it. So we should give them more air time so we can sell commercial time for more money, because real journalism and intelligent political analysis is too hard, and people are bored by it and will change the station.
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  319. You better read some owner reviews on that BMW, they are inferior to Tesla in every parameter.
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  320. Exactly. The market has grown tremendously, and a somewhat lower percentage of a bigger market is still an increase in sales, but don't expect the anti EV Trump cultists to be able to understand that, no matter how you explain it to them. it''s like the Monty Hall problem, some people are just incapable of understanding that you increase you chances of winning the car by switching curtains no matter how you explain it.
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  321. Just because you wrote "complete nonsense" does not mean you understand what is going on. This was happening before the commodity price increases.
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  322. So does anyone know the difference in gross weight for the two types of model Y?
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  323. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCIZPFMIVU looks like an elio. The first vaporware scam EV, well the flying car was the first. Let's hope that Tesla does not use unsprung motors in the hubs like Aptera did.
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  324.  @GROND15  Me either, but auto racing in general has more live audience than any other "sports" event.
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  325.  @mohammadwasilliterate8037  Maybe you can start an aftermarket mod company.
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  326.  @mohammadwasilliterate8037  Well, Mohammed, I guess that would depend on how many mods you developed and how many your salesmen sold to aftermarket shops. But excelsior bro.
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  327. Yeh, that's not what's happening. What's happening is that used Teslas are selling for more than they cost new.
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  328.  @lengould9262  You are saying there is a risk that resale values will decline and that people should consider delaying purchases. I say that the facts on the ground show the opposite. The longer you wait to purchase, the more it will cost. Especially when people begin to realize that when FSD is perfected, their family car can bring in a hundred k a year as a robotaxi, instead of sitting in the driveway. You presume that when the new factories are up to speed that the market will be saturated. I say this will never happen, and it is a possibility that in the future you will not be able to buy a Tesla at all, because they will be used in robo fleets either run by Tesla or other car rental agencies.
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  329. I wouldn't want to be short Tesla right now. Though I thank the shorts and all the foolish FUD for the current discounts. Looking forward to more, until they finally give it up. Tesla shorts minus $66,000,000,000 and counting, but maybe you will beat the odds. Put your money where your mouth is -- give it a shot.
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  330.  @BBingo-v5i  Since its shares started trading publicly, shorts have suffered a net loss of $61.8 billion, according to S3. Put your money where your mouth is -- give it a shot. I'm rooting for you Elroy.
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  331.  @BBingo-v5i  Not as mind blowing as your ignorance Elroy. Since its shares started trading publicly, shorts have suffered a net loss of $61.8 billion, according to S3.
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  332.  @davidbeppler3032  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4r61VM_GNw
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  333. Sounds like all the breakthroughs that are right around the corner: far off.
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  334. You see ads on YouTube? Get firefox and youtube addons stop ads
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  335.  @fredbloggs5902  The average US is thirty miles a day.
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  336.  @fredbloggs5902  Dear Fred, I was happy before, and continue to be happy. Personally I drive a generic SUV in the winter and my old 97 Miata anytime that there is no salt on the road. But I will buy a Cybertruck in the future which I have on reserve for about a year or so. And best of all, the profits on my investments in Tesla will more than pay for it. Yes I am happy. Thanks for caring. I am presently quite encouraged that due to the geopolitical situation, and the lock down in China, there will be another dip in Tesla stock. If I am so lucky that it approaches $750 I will bet the farm on it. One of my few investments that I get happiness from both when it is going up and when it is going down. Because anyone with real knowledge of the situation knows that despite the media FUD due to the fact that they don't give the media hundreds of millions a year in ad revenues, or wine and dine car mags with free specially built cars to test, and free gas sometimes for a year, and all expense paid junkets to their press events -- Tesla will triumph baring a world wide extinction event.
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  337. Science never believed it. Though a few editors of journals apparently did.
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  338.  @noleftturns  As I remember it, most professionals neither believed it nor could they duplicate it in independent studies. I think you have a very contrived memory of what actually happened, or you only approach subjects via pop media that is not their to inform you but to sell advertising space/time. The popular media does not accurately reflect the knowledge or attitudes of most scientists.
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  339.  @noleftturns Point of "extension" huh? Here's some news for you. I don't care what you think. You obviously have no grasp on reality, and prefer mimes made up by some stoner who lives in their mom's basement to real evidence.
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  340. What does it matter if they are not going to go mass because it cuts into profits?
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  341. WoW I own BYD so want it succeed, but your ideas about China are mere fantasies. China is not dominating in every industry except auto manufacturing. They can't even build a viable commercial airline, they are generations behind in advanced semiconductor manufacture, and it goes on and on. You fail to realize that the main reason that China is so fast to build things, many of them useless and rotting away, is because the insiders want to turn their fiat currancy which they print at five times the rate of the USA into material options so they have an escape when the entire system crashes, which will be soon. Now you have deleted my last post about this matter, but there is no sense in trying to hide the real geopolitical facts from your viewers unless you prime motive is to deceive them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zGQFceDrIM
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  342. What of Trumps negative comments about him? . . . Still left wing BS? Or maybe right wing BS? Or maybe the kind of BS that minds that only think in dichotomies and polarized knee-jerks -- Sh1tt -- all over everything all the time, because of their problem of diarrhea of the mouth simultaneous with their condition of constipation of the brain.
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  343. Not model 2 . . . model T -- for a hundred reasons including Giga Kahunas.
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  344. It's never all over. You think it should be all over, then along comes something like a solar powered Aptera, which may happen, and it all starts up again.
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  345. Get real only noobs use blue book, no dealer has used it for decades, they use the black book and the weekly wholesale auction results to value used cars.
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  346. Apparently there is a company in the Netherlands that does this. Search on youtube, some car channel guy took his old leaf and had it refurbished there.
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  347.  @MENDNZ  I wish I lived in New Zealand: apparently one of the few sane governments on earth, though I am sure that many individuals have their complaints as is only mechanically human. Rudy Heeman lives in New Zealand, and if I lived there I would hire him to build me one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEm5tloP0Uw&t=2s This one sold at auction for 25k but it wouldn't have if I was there. I would have bought it and shipped it back to the states where something similar but not as good would cost you over 125k.
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  348. Over twenty negative Tesla "news" stories on the yahoo finance Tesla chart page today. Every one of them is faulty or just outright incorrect. This cannot be totally attributed to reporters all having their heads up their asses.
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  349. Makes sense: except maybe for stop and go driving where the difference in mass would make more of a difference in the energy needed to overcome inertia. But for sure, once you get up above forty or so the aero is the main thing, if you are driving distances at highway speeds. Where the mass has a major effect is in handling and performance. Especially where and how the mass occurs, such as sprung and unsprung mass, bias between the wheels etc. But the Teslas are pretty aero, some of the best if not the best coefficients of drag of all cars. Like .21 for the SPlaid. Unless you move into extreme aero like the case of the Aptera, which is much lower than the Plaid. ON the other hand the Apteras motors are in the wheels, and I believe are unsprung weight, so handling would be OK . . . If you drive on a well kept pool table -- because the only shock absorber between the motors and a pothole is the tire -- unless they have come up with an engineering solution that I am unaware of.
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  350. I am only interested in privately held companies in so far as they impact publically traded companies, that I am interested in. These two companies are private, so what possible benefit is this info to investors? CATLs breakthroughs can be invested in, these guys cannot.
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  351. Lol, the shorts will be squeezed to death and Tesla will once more get it's groove on. There are millions of investors just praying that Tesla will drop below 8. Around 830 is where you will begin to see massive support. At 750, if we should be so lucky, it will be a Tsunami of buys.
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  352. The last man to down size the CIA was Jimmy Carter. The fired agents went to work for the RNC and financially ruined the country. Saudi Arabia just happened to stop oil, Iran just happened to take hostages at the embassy. And the people he had fired just happened to be experts in destabilizing governments and economies. And the the hostages just happened to be released the day Reagan took office, and who was Reagan's vice president? Just happened to be the former head of the CIA.
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  353. Don't know where you live but I have never heard of a ticket for acceleration, and I doubt any such ticket would hold up in court if a cop was stupid enough to write it up. How the hell would they measure your acceleration in the first place?
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  354. So part of Tesla's buisness model is to screw the environment. That comment is so stupid it is almost unbelievable that someone could be so out of touch with the reality of Tesla that they could make it.
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  355. Talk about projecting from the specific to the general. . . .
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  356. Not the model 2: the model T, where the T is the Tesla moniker and not a T.
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  357. What evidence do you even have that Tesla has abandoned it's model 2? It's like a conflict that you made up. Elon can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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  358. BYD has yet to make a profit on an EV without gov subs. And their quality sucks out loud.
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  359. Put Elons money where your mouth is. Please supply a reference for your statement about Elon financing DeSantis. . . . . . . . . .?
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  360.  @protagonist9716  Here is an up to date criticism of the CURRENT model Y by an expert in fit and finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QFSTnNS7Vw&list=TLPQMjUwMjIwMjNW0ZD7GZqHWQ&index=7 Conclusion: current model Y fit and finish is the equal of any traditional OEM and better than most. Memes die hard, especially when perpetuated by billion dollar budgets.
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  361.  @andders2477  I doubt that very much.
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  362.  @benjaminsmith2287  If you think that Mercedes and BMW, and even Porsche is making great EVs you really have no idea what you are talking about. They make great commercials and that is about it. What you don't seem to understand at all is that Tesla is innovating at a rate far exceeding the traditional OEMs. Tesla is now ten years ahead of all of them. But in ten years they won't be caught up, in ten years Tesla will be fifty years ahead of them. FRANKFURT -- Tesla was the biggest winner in Germany last month as electric cars continued to gain market share in Europe's largest vehicle market. Tesla's new-car sales grew 234 percent as the wider German market plunged 32 percent to 198,258 registrations, according to data from the KBA motor authority.
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  363. If you are waiting for TSLA to bottom out, I think you missed it. I hope it will go south again for a little while, but I doubt it very much. As for your theory about a buying opportunity for new investors, that is a fantasy. It all has to do with his own financials.
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  364.  @oldbloke204  Most people of little brain are too dumb to realize how stupid they are: you are no exception.
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  365. Or you could have it beep at you, or just remember where you parked it.
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  366.  @sjsomething4936  Sure seems like all that is coming. It's like the computer thing, get something that has a certain amount of future proofing for upgrades is the best one can do. I do kinda wish that EVs allowed you to upgrade the entertainment video. Like a port to plug in dedicated video cards.
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  367.  @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 Well I must be out of my mind because I have no interest in the Y at all, but may give up my CT reservation if the model 3 ludicrous is outrageous enough.
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