Sledhead36

Yep, you are good

Who is Paul Liska?

You are right about the interior.....it is all about weight. More weight, less range. A delicate balance. Getting longer range batteries is next in line, when they do, the interiors will get more luxury. Service will come to you if you are over 100 miles from a service center. I have had 2 cars for over 3 years, never been to a service center. They made me bring it in just to look at it, but most service, if any, happens over your wifi. There is no maintenance, except for washer fluid........just do it. I can save you a $1000 by 10/31.

Lol, sorry, that is what I meant to do.

Lynds on Morse Rd or down near Circleville.

Nobody cares about the 80s, we are talking the huge bailout where they buried pontiac......Tesla has wide open patents....GM, more than anyone, should be all over it.

Looks fantastic!

I wonder if low interest rates are a form of subsidy? Tesla payed back their government loan nine years early.......how is GM doing on their loan? http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/07/02/2-big-concerns-in-fiat-chryslers-sales-numbers.aspx

I concur, the examples was over simplified. Yours is better. But the fact remains, the government incentivizes the areas of business they want to grow and create jobs. The EV business is bigger than self driving cars. What if you could give the middle finger to AEP? Obama gave $500M to Solara, all the money was lost, no jobs, no business, nothing made......and nobody is pissed? Their P&L did not even show where the money went. And we should talk crap about someone actually doing everything they said they would do? Talk about ripple effect...... I probably paid for a ton of people to get government assistance for their personal use by my increased taxes on my Tesla earnings! I am ok with that.

What incentives have the oil companies had over the past 100 years? Why do they still get them? How many billions in profit each quarter.....and still getting incentives? Wtf. Have you spoken live to Elon? Pure genius is all I can say. I drank that kool aid back in 2009. This is the future, hang on.

On another note, the U.S. Government keeps putting rules on manufactures to get better and better fuel economy. The pure fact that car manufacturers have gone into making the engine quit at a stoplight, is a last ditch effort to try to meet the standards. The fact of VW did what they did, to meet the standards, shows how far and wide spread the problem is. Don't be surprised if tesla and VW, link up soon to create more fuel-efficient VW vehicles......

There were some really poorly written articles by people who don't understand business.... that say Tesla does not make money on every car they sell. I have seen the results of those crappy Intel saying Tesla looses $5000 to $50,000. If you only look at their bottom ine, and look at what they spend versus what they take in, you could easily draw that conclusion. But you would be a business idiot. Every business start up has costs for infrastructure. Tesla decided from day one, they would have superchargers throughout the United States so tesla owners had a way to charge their vehicle while they travel. The supercharger infrastructure is exceeding dramatically the amount of money coming in from the vehicle Sales. The quick look says, they must be losing money. But if you cut out the profitability on the vehicle and take superchargers out of the equation, they are making tons of money. If they stop building superchargers and battery plants, the company would look like a absolute gem. But if you want to be a leader in this industry you need to invest in infrastructure. It be like you starting up a Subway franchise and buy a building as well as pay your franchise fee....... then somebody looking over your shoulder and says that you are losing money on every Subway sandwich! Because you clearly don't have any profit yet. .... Of course, until you pay your building off and your franchise fee, it appears on paper you are losing money. The other issue that people referred to, is the government tax abatements. Every business out there take advantage of these. There isnt a new business built that doesn't take advantage of them. Victoria secret moved some of their warehouses from Columbus to New Albany. The reason, 15 year tax abatements and incentives to move the business there. You wouldn't be considered a good business person if you didn't look for these opportunities at every corner. Tesla is a solid company. It's not going away. And the stock is going to be incredible. I recently double down on it. I still remember back in 2012 when all my friends told me to not buy Tesla at $25 and I watched it go to $250 in nine months. My friends that didn't invest, still say the company is going to fail. They were also the first ones to say that the model X will never see the light of day. With every change, there comes a huge opportunity for those willing to take some risk. There are those that make things happen, there are those who watch things happen, and there are those who wonder what happened.

http://electrek.co/2015/10/16/tesla-cto-weve-shifted-core-focus-to-model-3-majority-of-employees-now-working-on-mass-production-of-35000-vehicle/

Really bad Intel on this one.

Patience grasshopper....... Elon sometimes speaks before he has the dollars and manpower to put towards these projects. Orders will be able to be replaced by March 2016 with delivery by the end of 2017. Elon has done everything he said he would do, maybe not exactly to the date, but everything he said he would do......has happened. Name one other company that is actually making these types of major changes and doesn't have some delays.

I agree, but we are two years away from a $35,000 car. I would see the driverless transportation being a vehicle without a driver and passenger seat but would be more like a carriage with 2 rows of seats facing each other. We are actually less than a year away from having the car park itself in your garage, or leaving a parking stall in a lot and coming to wherever your location. Whenever there is change, it's the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3. 1/3 love it, 1/3 will sit and watch and 1/3 hate it. Most of the money in the world has been made by the first group.

My grandfathers Buggywhip factory said the exact same thing when they launch the very first automobile........

Been using mine for 2 days now, very reliable and amazing.......it's the other retards with old fashioned manual steering that scare me! All emotion and no logic. Lol, all kidding aside.... it really is amazing. On the highway it is awesome. On city roads it drives like a teenager, a little erratic but makes its way. I drove 2 hours with it on and really enjoyed eating with 2 hands and checking emails. It will be a game changer on late night drives for those who get groggy. My prediction, is that this will be back up to "over the road" semi trucks in the not-too-distant future. Mercedes already has a full electric semi on the drawing board that drives itself. In between now and then, I could see making truck drivers safer by having a system that will assist them to stay on the road and drive safely. While this is the first generation of true self driving, for daily commuting....... our lives are about to change. Uber is already trying to negotiate a deal with Tesla for cars that fully drive themselves, you would use an app to call one to your location and send it to wherever you are going. My question is, if Tesla can do this, why the hell do they need Uber?

They collect sales taxes, and don't pay to the state. State will allow 2 quarters to go by with several penalties......then they get shut down. Most never reopen. If they are short cash so much to not pay the sales tax to the state, business was upside down.

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Has anyone seen this dude? I think he just disappeared.

I may have some, I have my season tix on Stub Hub, if they don't sell I would sell the single game. Sect 20A row 1

Good article for anyone who is not paying attention what's going on outside of the United States: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3477016-why-tesla-motors-can-continue-beating-luxury-rivals-in-europe

I agree, when you're spending that kind of money, the savings is really negligible. However it's the perception that is kind of fun. It feels like you're cheating the oil companies every time you don't fill up. Which it might just be me, but I love to give the middle finger to OPEC. In addition I put miles on the car more freely than I would on a gas vehicle. A gas vehicle when it approaches 100,000 miles is significantly devalued. Because these things have no real moving parts to the drivetrain other than a motor and gearbox, they should easily go 500,000 miles or more with little or no concern. The battery is warranted for eight years and unlimited miles. I guess what I'm saying, is when I'm taking a trip it seems like we always take the Tesla, because were not afraid to put miles on it. The new GPS software programs in all your stops at superchargers. You meet some really cool people that are very innovative at these chargers. From a business perspective, these innovators have been very helpful to me in developing some new business ideas.

A lot of the information is corrupt and is being paid for by the gas companies as well as the gas car companies. There is a ton of erroneous information out there on the financial stability of the company as well as how many cars are producing. I can only tell you I bought the stock at $25 I sold the lot at $200 thinking he couldn't possibly go higher....but I bought back in when it dropped to $210 and I think it's going to be a $400 stock one day. They are selling every car they can produce and if anybody is telling you otherwise they are full of crap. They have 27,000 orders for the model X and those have a $10,000 deposit on them. Just remember it's the same media delivering reports on Tesla that are separating the country and trying to divide everybody and have us believe crap that isn't true.