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To: SunkenCiv

With the purchase of Twitter Musk now has a big target on his back.

The regime is coming for Tesla and SpaceX. This price cut is a good defensive move.


9 posted on 01/17/2023 8:47:42 AM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: Renfrew

It may indicate expansion. The vid linked above discusses current (/rimshot) expansion in the US.

Oh, the Verizon scam is calling again, different number thanks to the scammers’ use of caller ID spoofing. There’s a vaguely Aussie accent on the message it leaves, truncated, “...leave your number we’ll call you back.”

About once a day some robodialer calls my two cell phones simultaneously. I’m sure Biden, Inc. gets its cut when the scammer scores.

Elon’s been bent about the tariff on auto imports imposed by India, meanwhile he’s been working for a while on building a Tesla plant in India, after considering other southern Asia countries including SE Asia. India has a literate population, but many of their best engineers wind up in the US. India has sort of a low wage rate, but in practice it seems to be difficult to build capacity in India. Apple’s OEM TSMC is attempting to build there now.

The experience of building Giga Berlin probably taught him a lesson.

Oh, here comes the Verizon scam again.

“...leave your number we’ll call you back.”

Due to concerns about how Brexit would go, Tesla decided on Germany, and there was no end of struggles with the German automakers’ astroturf. Mercedes had a dalliance with hydrogen powered vehicles (first model was a 2018, ever seen one?), as Toyota is doing now.


16 posted on 01/17/2023 9:05:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Renfrew
Actually, Tesla stock is UP 64% since the start of the year.

NASDAQ: TSLA
177.90 USD
+69.80 (+64.57%)
Friday, 9:00 PM GMT • Disclaimer

Tesla has very good profit margins. They can afford price cuts.
GM/Ford cannot.

58 posted on 01/29/2023 10:12:27 AM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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