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"But customers who have the option to configure their Model 3 can only purchase the long-range version with rear-wheel drive, which starts at $49,000."
1 posted on 06/17/2018 1:45:35 PM PDT by hlmencken3
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Does the $35,000 include a fire extinguisher?


2 posted on 06/17/2018 1:46:57 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: hlmencken3

If Saint Elon, king of the grifters say’s it is so...it must be true!


3 posted on 06/17/2018 1:48:55 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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This is from May 2.


4 posted on 06/17/2018 1:50:52 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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***Yawn***

Politically correct cars bore me to tears...


5 posted on 06/17/2018 1:51:39 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Elon Musk: America’s biggest welfare recipient.


15 posted on 06/17/2018 2:02:16 PM PDT by American Quilter (When does the wall start going up?)
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But when will it catch fire?


17 posted on 06/17/2018 2:05:01 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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They can make 5000 a week, but can they sell them?


20 posted on 06/17/2018 2:09:49 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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Nah it ain’t gonna happen

Mask who has only produced software under deadline does not understand stand manufacturing. He sent an email to everyone saying there are two weeks left to meet that goal. He promised to be there 24/7. He demanded that radical improvement happen in the next two weeks. He is the jerk boss that everyone rolls their eyes at. Radical improvement never happens in two weeks. Plenty of reports over the last year have detailed various manufacturing failures of this car. Musk refuses to listen and skips on to his next project

Someone ought to give him some heavy sedatives and keep him locked away for awhile. That might help more than anything


22 posted on 06/17/2018 2:10:55 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Price doesnt include $10000 worth of new batteries after ~7 years (or sooner if the millage fall affects its utitility to the driver)

BEWARE OF BUYING A *USED* ELECTRIC CAR


23 posted on 06/17/2018 2:11:00 PM PDT by elbook
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Had one behind me today. Very cheap and pedestrian looking, IMHO.


35 posted on 06/17/2018 2:24:09 PM PDT by pt17
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another ‘Boring’ development..

How Musk dug Wall Street investors a new one..

Revenge of the Mole People?


36 posted on 06/17/2018 2:37:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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I thought the Tesla 3s were already out? I’ve seen quite a few of them in recent weeks - on the other hand, I work not too far from the Tesla corporate headquarters in Palo Alto and maybe I’ve been seeing pre-release cars?


39 posted on 06/17/2018 3:03:22 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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They are not profitable with an OTD high end 60K Model 3, add the 100K Model S and X. So now they are going to turn a profit selling the low end Model 3? hahahaha. TESLA LOST 675 MILLION IN JUST THE LAST QUARTER.

The Tesla's appear to be a fine cars if you can afford one. But some of the things I'm reading and hearing coming out of Elon’s mouth recently sound more and more desperate. A LOT of Tesla's stock is being shorted.

40 posted on 06/17/2018 3:03:37 PM PDT by DAC21
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He also admits to being a socialist aka communist.

Link: http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/06/17/elon-musk-i-am-a-socialist/


42 posted on 06/17/2018 3:12:00 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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"Tesla hints at when its $35,000 Model 3 will actually arrive..."


55 posted on 06/17/2018 4:07:11 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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Run the math.

A $35,000 car.

5,000 produced per week.

That's 260,000 cars *per year*.

According to this site,

that rate of production would be about the same as the demand for the Tesla (#1 in sales as of Feb 2018) and the Toyota Prius (#2 in sales) combined.

Not sure what the backlog is like.

Methinks a tall order.

56 posted on 06/17/2018 4:09:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Tesla had planned to make 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week by the end of 2017 when it launched the vehicle in July, but it adjusted that goal after making just 2,425 Model 3s during the fourth quarter.

So they went from a planned 60,000 vehicles to 2400? That is a huge production fail. Hitting less than 5% of your production goal means there's something seriously wrong with your process..
62 posted on 06/17/2018 5:32:43 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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The headline didn’t match the fact of my neighbor’s Tesla 3 in his driveway. Then read the $49k model only part.


86 posted on 06/19/2018 2:17:39 PM PDT by Dagnabitt ( I'm old enough to remember "the Wall".)
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