Posted on 05/23/2019 9:39:00 AM PDT by Moonman62
As Wall Street analysts worry that demand for Tesla vehicles is waning, CEO Elon Musk told employees that the company has received more than 50,000 new orders this quarter.
That number was disclosed to all Tesla employees in an email sent late Wednesday, a copy of which was viewed and confirmed authentic by Business Insider. Musk also added that the company could surpass its vehicle delivery record of 90,700 which it set in the fourth quarter of 2018.
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Better story, a local district in my area got grant money to cover the roof on the largest school with solar. The roof was near it’s end of life, but they did it anyway. A few years later the roof began to fail and they had to rip out 90% of the solar panels.
The roofing contractor refused to warranty the new roof if they put hundred of holes in it to mount the panels again. Also, they didn’t have they money to pay for a crane, electricians, roofers, etc. to re install them. In the end they were on they hook for thousands to dispose of several hundred worthless solar panels.
I've pondered the same issue on a larger scale. If electric cars some day reach 25% of cars sold...or even 10%...where's the electricity gonna come from?
Here in the south end of the San Francisco Bay, we are in the heart of Tesla Country. You can’t drive five minutes without seeing three or four.
At our Idaho house north of Coeur d’Alene, you don’t see any at all. Well, not exactly true - we saw ONE last year.
Yes, demand will continue until January.
Federal subsidies are being phased out. There will be none in 2020, so people are ordering now while hardworking Americas subsidize their car purchase.
Wow, that is one ugly story, isn’t it? At least here they built dedicated structures over the school parking lots to install the solar panels. But they sure did UGLIFY all of our schools.
I just don’t get the fetish to install power plants all over the place. Distributing the energy production doesn’t make much sense. There’s nothing like a central power plant out in the boonies making power.
We continue to pay the water company, the phone company, the gas company, the internet company, and the sewer company to keep those systems centralized with good economics and deliver the service to you. The professionals at the far-away plant keep it running for us. Electricity makes the most sense with that centralized model.
The underlying raison d’être for EVs was originally to remove sulfur and nitrogen oxide and unburned hydrocarbon pollution from cities. That reason no longer exists because internal combustion engines are so efficient and clean now. So the raison d’être shifted to ending “man-caused climate disruption,” which is a completely bogus argument.
Not surprising...populated by several million individuals with far more money than sense. You see Teslas in my neck of the woods (suburban Boston) from time to time...yet another area area populated by the same type of individuals.
I’d wager a good sum that the subsidies will be extended. Maybe at a lower amount, but they WILL be extended a couple years.
Yes, some scumbag Dem or Rino will slip it into a continuing resolution somewhere.
Where we live we ask “what is a Tesla”?
Weren't they an 80s Metal band?
Before I moved, I lived in a older neighborhood in the north-east, built in the mid-late 60’s. We blew up two transformers over the course of a few years due to some new construction of larger houses and existing houses adding things like central A/C and swimming pools. I know our house went from pulling a constant maybe 20-25 amps daytime in the summer with just a window A/C to 50-70 amps with a pool, central A/C and finished basement.
The high voltage primary lines could handle the load, but the secondary lines off the transformers need to be split into smaller groups of houses.
May or may not be true but what is a fact is that this email was purposely leaked since the SEC has put the reins on Musk’s ability to tweet in regards to Tesla.
“The trick is to get the customers to buy at a price where you can make a profit”
Getting mechanical repairs done in days instead of weeks would help as well to bring in more customers. You don’t even want to know what it takes in time / costs for collision repairs. There are horror stories on Tesla OWNERS Web Forums.
I remember reading a forum post years ago from a guy who had a 3-year Tesla lease, and waited 4 months for a replacement battery.
He was paying $900 a month for the car to sit in his driveway, inoperable.
The problem is that Tesla owners are like Land Rover, VW Beetle, and Mini Cooper owners. Despite the cars being overpriced and unreliable, they still enjoy a high level of own satisfaction due to their unique characteristics.
The giant difference in your analogy is that color TVs were not subsidized by taxpayers.
Tesla is not capitalistic. It is heavily socialized.
After 35 years in our residence, PG&E added a transformer to the pole in our backyard for that reason. Lots of new loads in houses in the neighborhood that just didn’t exist in 1952 when it was all built.
That’s my kind of town!
You described a hybrid car like a Prius. They’ve been around since 1997 (Toyota Prius in Japan in 1997, followed by the Honda Insight in 1999). The nice thing about hybrid is you convert your kinetic energy into potential energy (in the battery) every time you brake. Of course, you have the higher capital cost of two power plants in your car, higher maintenance costs, and increased weight which hurts mileage.
You’re right. It can also engineered to be even more effective, but I do think the hybrid is the limit for the application of batteries where they can be useful
There’s a difference between lusting for something
and demanding it. At these prices, lust is all I can do.
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