Tesla Motors

[Sugarphreak]

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[HiTempguy1]

Poor ol Elon just can't win with you guys.

Pretty sure its jealousy that you can't come up with a stupid idea and make millions off of it :p

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Poor ol Elon just can't win with you guys.

Pretty sure its jealousy that you can't come up with a stupid idea and make millions off of it :p

A few timed hes said i could of done that, or im just as smart . but (insert excuse) lol

[zhao]

Tesla Model 3 Teardown By Engineering Firm Reveals Quality Flaws Like 'A Kia In The '90s'

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-t...&ICID=ref_fark

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Tesla Model 3 Teardown By Engineering Firm Reveals Quality Flaws Like 'A Kia In The '90s'

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-t...&ICID=ref_fark

Fake news, funded by haters.

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Tesla Model 3 Teardown By Engineering Firm Reveals Quality Flaws Like 'A Kia In The '90s'

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-t...&ICID=ref_fark

Most people buying a Tesla aren't really going to care about panel gaps or extra shims on one side of the door frame to keep the window sealed. They're paying for EV tech and aren't concerned about those things anyways.

Realistically, the number of people who truly care about panel gap are pretty minor as a whole.

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Tesla model s is the number one selling car in Norway and now 52% of all cars in Norway are electric or hybrid thanks to resla.

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Also high in December because the incentives ended Dec. 31st. Exact same thing happened in Hong Kong.[/url]

Some new Hong Kong data was released this week, and yea, pretty grim there.



That's 32 since the tax breaks were cut. Not 32 a month, but 32 total. The last month incentive spike is also interesting, in that Tesla themselves registered ~1000 vehicles in that 2939 number to take advantage of the rebate and resell the vehicles afterwards. China ended up fucking Tesla on those rebates.

Article here (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/2b8eb480-...d-41ca06376bf2

Elon Musk is threatening to pull out of HK market if they don't reinstate the rebate, which is worth a whopping $85k per car.

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Elon Musk is threatening to pull out of HK market if they don't reinstate the rebate, which is worth a whopping $85k per car.

I wonder if he'll ever produce a decent car that more than a tiny fraction of a small subset of people will pay for before he goes out of business/sells it off? Government subsidies are fucked, I don't want to pay for someone to buy a car that doesn't make sense.

If I were Hong Kong, the door couldn't hit him fast enough with an attitude like that.

[mr2mike]

Probably already said but, "Delorean of the 2000's"
Buy one to be a collectors item in 20 years.

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I wonder if he'll ever produce a decent car that more than a tiny fraction of a small subset of people will pay for before he goes out of business/sells it off? Government subsidies are fucked, I don't want to pay for someone to buy a car that doesn't make sense.

If I were Hong Kong, the door couldn't hit him fast enough with an attitude like that.

https://electrek.co/2017/02/22/hong-...entives-tesla/

Typical tax charged on a Tesla is $56KUSD and up to $150K USD. I believe it's a combination of import tariff and local taxes on cars.

That's right folks, that's taxes. It's there to discourage car ownership. All the Tesla bought are basically the 1% trying not to pay taxes that they don't have to.

All HK did is seeing a loophole and close it. Last thing HK need is more cars on the road. And this incentive is really helping the rich anyway and general masses couldn't afford cars to begin with. OR it would be quite an hassle unless you live north of Kowloon.

For reference, a base CRV is $57K CAD in HK. And owning a spot to park it costs $240K CAD. Average annual wage in HK is $30K CAD.

Also consider that HK isn't great for green energy due to real estate costs and 3/4 of electricity is actually imported from Shenzhen. It's tough for them to support the extra EV load incurred to the grid.

Elon isn't going to win in China until Tesla is building cars with the same tolerances as industry standard. China's EV market is doing pretty good on its own with all the import tariffs and business rule that basically hard for foreign companies to participate.

China's EV sales has now hit 4%. We barely hit 1% in North America even with all the incentives. Aston is already shopping for EV partner in China. There is no way the west can keep up at the break neck speed of Chinese developments.

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Typical tax charged on a Tesla is $56KUSD and up to $150K USD. I believe it's a combination of import tariff and local taxes on cars.

That's right folks, that's taxes. It's there to discourage car ownership. All the Tesla bought are basically the 1% trying not to pay taxes that they don't have to.

The tax break is actually still there, it's just capped at around $15k USD. Because the tax incentive was so huge in the first place just for Tesla (and other EVs but they cost nowhere near Model S/X prices), Tesla's TCO skyrocketed by 60-80%.

[dj_patm]

Since there's no thread about it....

That SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch and landing was epic.

[lilmira]

very nice form on the synchronized landing, 10 out of 10.

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Fuck Super Bowl commercials. I mean, how can you top this Tesla commercial? haha

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SpaceX is da real MVP!

[lilmira]

Actually I change my mind, I'm gonna deduct a point for not landing the rockets in an underground lair with monorail SPECTRE style, what a shame!

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very nice form on the synchronized landing, 10 out of 10.

I was blown away by that. You can just imagine Musk at SpaceX "There is only ONE FUCKING WAY THIS IS HAPPENING, and that is with these boosters landing side by god-damn side!" and then everyone worked 100 hour weeks for a couple months

NASA would have just been all "eh, fuck it, make the booster path's as efficient as possible"

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Fuck Super Bowl commercials. I mean, how can you top this Tesla commercial? haha

Even better was Twitter. I HATE Twitter, but guess what popped up as soon as any mention of the center core disappeared?


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That gave me a good laugh.

[Sugarphreak]

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[JRSC00LUDE]

He should stick to space now, THAT is cool. He sucks at cars, period. Sell it off and focus on this.