When you park at a Super Charger, you can leave your car to charge while you go grab a bite or do some shopping. At some point though, your car will finish charging. After that, you are taking up a parking spot with your car plugged in. This is where “Idle Fees” kick in. If […]
Electric Vehicles Blog Posts
Profile Detection
My car keeps getting better. One cool feature about the Tesla is the driver profiles. My wife can set it to her profile and the mirrors and seat adjusts to her saved config settings. When I drive the car I could select my profile and have my saved settings. The whole thing is a major […]
Will Tesla use LIDAR?
Tesla is ahead in every aspect of Electric Vehicle development (at least in North America). But despite their lead, many wanted to spread doubt about LIDAR being more viable. Elon flamethows this argument here: Elon Musk: “LIDAR is lame. LIDAR is lame. Lame. hehe” … “They are all going to dump LIDAR is my prediction. […]
Will Tesla Win?
Few (who don’t watch Now you Know or Hyperchange) are savvy enough to really understand what is at stake in terms of becoming the first to solve Level 5 Autonomy. Level 5 Autonomy is when the car can drive itself in any human drive-able condition. Why is Telsa going to win? Well for starters, they […]
TSLA Valuation
Based on this post you can see there was a massive downturn for Tesla Q4 2018 which it almost recovers from before getting slammed again in Q1 2019. What caused this? Was it justified? Should TSLA be at a new record high? If not, where should it be? I think TSLA deserves a record high. […]
Tesla Record Deliveries – Stock Price vs. Delivery Highs & Lows
This graph illustrates level highs for both deliveries and stock price. If you feel that vehicles delivered is an important metric, one that should impact the stock price the most, then this graph is a simple illustration of how both of these metrics correlate. Does Tesla deserve a new high for hitting a record quarter? […]
Tesla Next Batch Algorithm
//If you are reading this, I suggest you skip it. You have been warned. At some point, Tesla will face the decision: [which car to make next?] Hardware specifics that exist tangibly including paint colour, # motors, performance, battery size, r/l hand drive etc. need to be built in batches. Tesla will want to minimize […]
The TSLA Tug o’ War
In Q1 2019, Tesla did a capital raise. Wall St was talking and talking about how a capital raise was necessary. Elon Musk had previously stated that he had no intention on doing capital raises in the future. But he did. And this was … good? When Wall St for years points at you and […]
Hater’s gonna hate
This article from The Drive does well to draw parallels from industry envy and how leaders suffer from envy in the industries they disrupt. He points out that he loves his car and Tesla is way ahead. He points fingers at all other car dealers and accuses them of not stepping it up. And points […]