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Ouch, that one slices both ways. F150 Lightning.

If you have to ask this question, you should consider selling bitcoin and buying an index fund like VTI. Buying VTI is placing a bet on the growth of capitalist economy of the United States of America, which is a relatively safe long-term bet. The returns can be lower, but the risk is...

I've been through multiple credible threats of a massacres, and also a worst-in-modern-Ameican-history massacre on the academic campus where I worked at the time. While the real thing is worse, false alarms are deeply traumatic as well -- especially when you are aquinted with the ongoing...

Asking myself *when* this was the case was my route to wisdom. When, exactly, were the good old days? And for whom? Were all Americans from all racial and ethnic groups included at that time? And, of not, where those really the good old days? I didn't like the answers I got, but they were...

An astoundingly bright future is already priced in to TSLA's stock price.

Look no further than the per-kWh charges at Superchargers. The majority of my Supercharging has been at $0.44/kWh. My home electricity costs about 1/3rd that, so Tesla's markup can be as high as 200% (300% of their costs), assuming they're paying retail prices for electricity -- but they're...

The funny thing about automotive accounting is that it has to be based on the number of units you expect to sell - in order to provide any actionable information. If you change that sales-expectation number, everything else changes with it. This is a business where you spend a billion dollars...

Big castings aren't the only way to make an EV. Given Tesla's unique access to capital (remember that Musk's genius is in generating investor-hype and the stock is priced an order of magnitude higher than the conventional pricing models suggest it should be), making a big capital investment...

Here's the thing. The way traditional auto companies work, what we see on the road is what they were designing 5 years ago. The way Tesla works, we see what they're designing now -- and in the future. Back in the beginning, this was the only way Tesla could operate - because they're a startup...

Surely we can agree that going on Twitter and picking fights about values and politics with your core customer-bas is a really dumb idea?

Not pissing off your customers is important if you want a successful business.

Be advised that, based on how he's conducted himself at Twitter, he does not care how many people he pisses off.

Depends on what people do with it. If people start using them to commit massacres, as they do with firearms, the that's a problem we will need to solve by regulating flamethrowers and their owners.

The richest 20% of the Chinese market is bigger than the US market, population wise. China is a huge automotive market, and getting bigger. Get used to seeing new-product reveals split between the USA, China, and the EU -- because they're all big profitable car markets. In a couple of...

I'm an American and I feel the same way he does. I've lost the privilege of being naive about the lasting damage a pair of semiautomatic pistols can do to a community -- when they are in the hands of a person who should never have been trusted with the lives of others.

The point is that fritter63 suggestion that Tesla should sell gun-related accessories is toxic to Tesla brand for a lot of people. If Tesla were to take a side on the culture-war over guns in America, that would mean that Tesla could only sell cars to about half of the American population (and...

I have lived the downside of America's gun culture, and I want nothing to do with gun stuff. If Tesla's brand got mixed up with gun stuff, that destroys the brand for me. If Tesla gets into gun stuff, I'm out -- I'll sell my MYLR ASAP and GTFO from everything Tesla. I grew up in rural America...

Given my experience getting electronics manufactured, the only reasonable way they could have the parts available in less than about 5 months is to have started the process before they got the final approval. You can tee up these things months in advance and give the go-signal at the last...

It seems like you're trying to play gotcha games. But the reality is that EV driving patterns are just a little bit different than ICE vehicles. In real life with a Tesla Model Y, the pattern is as follows: Normal day - <= 3 hours highway driving: You leave home with the battery = 90% every...

I didn't get a chance to do any range-impact testing during the test drive. It was very much the standard ICE test-drive routine. No red flags in a 20-minute drive, and it seemed to be a fully-baked product. But the kind of thing you're mentioning wouldn't have been evident. My Model Y (heat...