Springfield Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 2 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said: Tangentially related. Theres a storm a-coming... http://autoweek.com/article/rumormill/chrysler-about-be-whacked Well, kinda hard to keep a company that big alive on Jeep Wrangler sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 3 hours ago, FrFan said: It's a no-brainer': are hydrogen cars the future? Air Liquide and ten Japanese companies join forces for hydrogen network fuel cells of some type are imo, not simply hydrogen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c slag Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Does a Tesla stop by means of compressed brake fluid that forces a caliper against a spinning rotor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 1 hour ago, c slag said: Does a Tesla stop by means of compressed brake fluid that forces a caliper against a spinning rotor? I would assume that they have electronic brake calipers, however when I google it all I find are videos and forum posts of toolboxes putting red covers over their calipers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 2 hours ago, c slag said: Does a Tesla stop by means of compressed brake fluid that forces a caliper against a spinning rotor? primarily yes ,aided by a booster system (used to be traditional vacuum now electric) it also has electric parking brakes and the regenerative system which is tied into the abs/scs which is roughly equivalent to engine braking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RansomthePasserby Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 CNN - Elon Musk has the last laugh as Tesla stock pops 40% from its low “There is a growing sense that not only is demand extremely strong for the Model 3, but that Tesla will actually be able to meet it. The hope is that solid Model 3 sales will help Tesla to report quarterly profits later this year and a full-year profit in 2019...” Perhaps Tesla is climbing out of the hole it dug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Quote Tesla to cut 9% of jobs in 'difficult but necessary' reorganization Tesla will cut approximately 9 percent of its 46,000-person workforce. Cuts will focus on salaried positions, leaving hourly factory jobs intact. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/tesla-to-cut-about-9-percent-of-jobs-across-company-report.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RansomthePasserby Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 (edited) From @twa‘s CNBC article: “CFRA analyst Efraim Levy took the news as a sign Tesla is maturing and prioritizing profitability. "There is a normal ebb and flow of hiring and firing in a business," he said. "Nine percent is a big chunk to do at once, but there comes a time when a company grows up and they have to cut out the fat to become more efficient."” Makes sense. Edited June 12, 2018 by RansomthePasserby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 you indeed need to trim the fat, but the production problems aren't a salaried worker issue imo. But cutting overhead certainly excites investors, May you live in interesting times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RansomthePasserby Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 17 minutes ago, twa said: you indeed need to trim the fat, but the production problems aren't a salaried worker issue imo. But cutting overhead certainly excites investors, May you live in interesting times That depends. If some of the salaried workers are part of a poorly performing production management team, then it may help. Time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Just now, RansomthePasserby said: Time will tell. It usually does. Perceptions on the other hand are more subjective. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 10 percent exempt workforce reduction just a trim, eh? Why not call it merely a flesh wound? LOL Some of us said 5 years ago that Musk would get a generous helping of humble pie. We were called dumb. Hows the model 3 release going? I mean, we do acknoledge that there is more to a car company than building concept cars, right? Just more big tech hubris, nothing to see here. Except elon musks public spiral and meltdown that will continue over the next few years 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 17 hours ago, RansomthePasserby said: Perhaps Tesla is climbing out of the hole it dug? Ponzi schemes, by definition, never climb out of the hole they dig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 15 hours ago, RansomthePasserby said: From @twa‘s CNBC article: “CFRA analyst Efraim Levy took the news as a sign Tesla is maturing and prioritizing profitability. "There is a normal ebb and flow of hiring and firing in a business," he said. "Nine percent is a big chunk to do at once, but there comes a time when a company grows up and they have to cut out the fat to become more efficient."” Makes sense. Why would any tech company prioritize profitablity? There is no reason to do so. Quite the contrary, profits HURT big tech. I dont think its quite caught on that the market is BROKEN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 hoo boy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Quote Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to all employees on Monday morning about a factory fire, and seemed to reference possible sabotage. Now, CNBC has learned that Musk also sent an e-mail to all employees at Tesla late on Sunday night alleging that he has discovered a saboteur in the company's ranks. Musk said this person had conducted "quite extensive and damaging sabotage" to the company's operations, including by changing code to an internal product and exporting data to outsiders. In 2016, after a SpaceX rocket exploded while being fueled up before an engine test, Musk and SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell also looked into the possibility of sabotage. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/elon-musk-email-employee-conducted-extensive-and-damaging-sabotage.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoony Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Reading some of the earlier posts in this thread is hilarious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 Quote The most expensive problem the electric carmaker faces is the ballooning cost of automation at its Fremont, California, factory. CEO Elon Musk boasted in 2016 that Tesla’s highly automated Fremont facility would be the “most advanced” car factory on the planet. He’s since admitted Tesla overreached, and had to rip out parts of the assembly line. “We had this crazy, complex network of conveyor belts,” Musk said in a CBS interview aired in April. “And it was not working, so we got rid of that whole thing.” The company bought the German automation company Grohmann to help get things back on track. The supposed cost advantage is turning into a financial sinkhole, argues the Wall Street firm Bernstein Research. “Tesla seems to be spending over 2x what a normal [auto manufacturer] would invest per unit of installed capacity,” the March 28 report stated, citing $2 billion in recent facility investments. “The reason Tesla has spent all this money, the reason it bought Grohmann and the reason it can’t build Model 3s are all linked. Tesla has tried to hyper-automate Model 3 production.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 24% of Tesla Model 3 orders have been canceled, analyst says Quote Tesla is finally making enough Model 3s -- but an analyst says many customers are growing too impatient to wait any longer for them. Cancellations for Model 3 orders have picked up in recent weeks. Refunds now outpace deposits for Tesla's new mass-market electric car, according to Needham & Co. analyst Rajvindra Gill. Tesla disputes that. In an analyst note delivered to clients Thursday, Gill cited extended wait times for the car, the expiration of a $7,500 tax credit, and the fact that Tesla has not yet made the $35,000 base model of the car available for purchase yet. About one in every four Model 3 orders is canceled, Gill said, double the rate from a year ago. Customers have to put down a refundable $1,000 deposit to reserve a Model 3, then pay another $2,500 to choose their specific version. They pay the rest when the car is delivered. The wait time for a Model 3 is about 4 months to a year, and base model customers could wait until 2020, Gill said. A Tesla spokesperson denied that Model 3 cancellations exceed new orders. The spokesperson also said the wait times that Gill cites are outdated. Tesla's website currently lists wait times from 1 month to 9 months. Overpromise, underdeliver. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 heheheh 420!!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 ...and a 11.8% stock price gain today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 SEC is opening an investigation because of that tweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 41 minutes ago, tshile said: SEC is opening an investigation because of that tweet As they should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 2 minutes ago, Springfield said: As they should. Yeah you can't just proclaim you have the money for a buyout if you're an officer of a publicly traded company. If he goes down for trying to fight short sellers it'll be hilarious to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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