HaulingAss
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- Mike
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Good points, I wish people would try to stay grounded in reality. The economics of construction and auto manufacture are two entirely different things. The raw materials in the average car only cost $4,000-$5,000 (and that's after recently nearly doubling). Tesla has been averaging margins on autos around 23% recently - that's after the raw materials went up by nearly 90%. Since then, prices have started to come down. 23% margin on a $50K truck is $11,500.Tesla vehicles went up because demand did. Not because costs went up.
If costs went up, profits per car would have gone down. They've gone up, instead.
-Crissa
Tesla sells it's FSD software for $10K. I wonder what would happen to FSD prices if the raw materials doubled again? Oh, that's right, software has no raw materials!
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