maybe we should pass a Law mandating that ALL Public Emplotyee’s Nationwide use only Electric Vehicles for their commute to and from work? This would spur sales tremendously and help them Save the Planet.
Amazing how he could do no wrong until he committed the most grave mortal sin. Pointed out a British pedophile homo during that cave rescue.
Within weeks he was under SEC investigation, and he has been harassed and abandoned by the government types who liked him before. When he identified himself as a guy who would point out a pedophile, the DNC was like a vampire shown a cross. They want him destroyed.
His rockets are very cool and made nasa look retarded. That didn’t help his cause either.
The DeLorean automobile enterprise died, too.
And so did the Tucker automobile dream.
It takes a LOT to get started in building cars. Much easier to just fold in the absence of a government subsidy.
The kids love ‘em.
I heard my duaghter and all her freinds talking about how they wanted to get a Tesla just the other day.
19-20 yrs old age group.
The free market is the only true arbiter of the value provided by a product. The market seems to be speaking, and barring government interference, that should be the last word.
Acquisition is a good possibility, but I’d look for someone like Daimler AG to buy Tesla, and roll it into the Mercedes Benz line, as well as applying EV technology elsewhere in their portfolio.
The Chinese, not Tesla, will bring EV technology to small inexpensive vehicle markets. Musk just doesn’t know how to do it.
Most of these articles come from people with a vested interested in seeing Tesla fail. I despise short selling and wish it was illegal. Easy to stir up fear, bad rumors and crap to drop price. It affects real people when companies can’t get loans due to the vampires. Short selling is evil by nature, gaining from misfortune.
His only yuge mistakes:
1. Pointing out the Brit homo/pedo
2. Smoking that joint ON CAMERA
3. “Who owns the media..? Hello..?!”
Take those 3 things away, and you’d simply have an eccentric, high-risk entrepreneur.
But especially the last of those 3 put him in extreme danger.
The Beast doesn’t like to be poked and it NEEDS to be fed.
Now that the taxpayers are not subsidizing him Tesla is having a bit of trouble make his business model work.
its what happen after a few years and the customers who’s defective/under-achieving vehicles don’t replace them with the same brand (or any electric).
battery decline and very low resale value (you have to replace the very expensive batteries on a used car or one reaching only a handful of years in age) is probably significant.
I’ve always thought that hybrids — combining battery as an efficiency feature ontop of a 100-year-old mature combustion technology was the far better path/solution than trying to use an immature and insufficient technology and over hyped ‘fad’ one (all electric)