Elon Musk behaves impulsively on Twitter. So does everybody else, but Elon is not allowed. He is not allowed because a person in his position could leak material information. He has a lot of cards he is playing close to the chest, so he needs to tread carefully. And apparently the SEC has rules. Control […]
Elon Musk Blog Posts
A Self Driving Future
Imagine a future where transportation is quick and even quicker when you plan ahead. You need a car and one shows up instantly to take you wherever you want to go. On a $40,700 Tesla Model 3 leased today, Tesla will collect $6,289 +$2,500 +($399 * 36) = $23,153 for leasing the car to a […]
Tesla Q3 Cars Delivered 97,000, Tesla 2017 Cars Delivered 103,091
Tesla has one more chance this year to post a quarterly delivered results of what they were able to achieve for the entire year 2017. If they do this, they will have quadrupled deliveries since 2017 (or doubled year over year). Meanwhile, the stock price…
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 […]
Sentry Mode 2.0 (or 3.0?)
On Aug 10 2018, I originally wrote about a Tesla intrusion detection system. It wasn’t spot on, but it basically foresaw Tesla using cameras to detect intrusion. As of a few weeks ago Sentry Mode has been updated to stay on and allow you to input more settings such as the ability to configure when […]
Hybrids are to cars what the 28.8 bps modem was to the internet.
UThinking about getting a Hybrid? It might seem like a good idea if you talk to a Hybrid owner. They may even save upwards of 90% on gas. The problem with hybrids is the sheer number of parts. To keep them cost competitive you need literally the cheapest of both worlds. As such, any company […]
The Tesla Battle Ground
In this corner, you have Elon Musk on Twitter, Tesla Stores, Massive Battery Installations, 42,000+ Employees, the Freemont Factory (tent and all), Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo, Tesla’s Seat Factory, Model X & Owners, Model S & Owners, Model 3 & Owners, Additional Fan-base, some Billionaire Analysts, Self Driving Capabilities already deployed, […]
A Message to Tesla
Thank you. Really. Thank you all so much. I get that it can be annoying when the work you do is credited to somebody else. But understand that as consumers, we are so happy with our products that we want to thank you and shake your hand, but we don’t know you exist. To the […]
NVIDIA disputes Tesla’s TOPS
A good article from Electric NVIDIA disputes some of Tesla’s FSD computer claims, but they miss the main point nicely points out the importance of power consumption in this debate. I have some more opinions on the matter. What makes a fair comparison? Is it fair to compare a product in mass production to a […]