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I really want a Tesla Model 3 or Model Y. The Cybertruck has grown on me quite a bit since it was first shown. It's still my least favorite of their vehicles but I like that they aren't afraid to do something different.

I won't be able to afford any of these for quite a while so just hoping I win a contest that gives me one free. Probably my only hope tbh.
 
I wish one of these electric truck makers would make a truck with an 8 foot bed. It would be perfect for my business. We drive them about 80 miles a day, and need every inch of the bed.

Very disappointed in what's out there, except for Bollinger Motors, but those are starting at 125k.

I feel like the electric car market is ass backwards here in the states. Sales of sedans are falling off a cliff, yet here we have Nissan, Chevy, Hyundai, Kia, Tesla, etc all offering only sedans. Sedans also happen to be the body style least capable of stashing giant batteries in.

If Chevy had come out with an electric Silverado when they came out with the Volt, they would have sold a million of them by now.
 
physicsfactor said:
Hmmm “Rolling Electrons” just doesn’t sound as cool though
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Sounds kinda faggy. And, I mean, they don't even have stacks on em. Somebody told me they don't make hardly any noise when you floor it! What's the point in driving something like that??
 
Tesla up over $621 a share now. God damn I wish I had had money available to invest when I wanted to. I would've made a couple grand easy. Hoping it dips around Q1 earnings time and I can snap as much up as possible before its stock heads to the moon.
 
CK86 said:
Tesla up over $621 a share now. God damn I wish I had had money available to invest when I wanted to. I would've made a couple grand easy. Hoping it dips around Q1 earnings time and I can snap as much up as possible before its stock heads to the moon.
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Why do you think it's going further? it's nearly tripled in less than a year based off nothing.
 
bdotling said:
CK86 said:
Tesla up over $621 a share now. God damn I wish I had had money available to invest when I wanted to. I would've made a couple grand easy. Hoping it dips around Q1 earnings time and I can snap as much up as possible before its stock heads to the moon.
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Why do you think it's going further? it's nearly tripled in less than a year based off nothing.
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Few reasons. Model Y coming out in March. The semi is supposed to come out this year too. The autonomous driving network may be up and running as soon as 2021 (personally I think it'll take longer but long term should be a huge revenue source if they're able to do it safely). The Berlin gigafactory should open in under 2 years while the China gigafactory is now up and running. I think their solar business is going to become a bigger part of their business in the next couple of years now that they've got cash to invest in R&D. The over the air software updates and in-car entertainment could be another revenue source. Cybertruck comes out next year and the new roadster should be coming in the next 2 years.

The other thing is that Tesla is so far ahead on batteries that I think other companies are going to pay to license some of their tech. The demand for their products are going to increase the closer we get to 2030 due to the climate crisis. Other companies are paying them for some of their carbon emission credit (almost $2 billion since 2010).

I think this is a tech company that sells cars rather than a traditional car company. I believe the younger generation will be quicker to adopt it than previous generations and when you see how much better their products are compared to the competition it becomes a no brainer.

Ark Invest projected the stock to $6,000 a share within 5 years. Even a third of that projection and I'm making a shit ton of money if I can buy it for 300-400 a share.
 
Don’t have strong feelings on the rest, but Tesla is trailing significantly on autonomous. Running millions of highway miles and having a car maintain spacing in traffic is a high school science fair project compared to what Waymo (Google) and Cruise (GM) are doing at scale in city conditions. They’re no more a tech company than any other automaker and they don’t have any sustainable competitive advantage to cling to, IMO.

That’s my contrarian take as someone who’s worked in computer vision since 2006, some of that in automotive radar.
 
They are also massively cash flow negative and use vapor accounting techniques to make their financials look better than they are. I think this is a major short squeeze and it will get back to that 300-400 range
 
Could this have anything to do with the news that the UK is banning the selling of any car that uses fossil fuels in 15 years? Not a lot of alternatives at that point.
 
Up over $905 with a high around $940. My hope of a downward swing around Q1 earnings at around like $300 to buy is looking shaky.

The Britain news seems pretty big but I'm not a professional investor. It just blows my mind that at least range wise, no one has beaten Tesla's 2012 model. That's an 8 year old model and none of the traditional automakers have beaten that. I feel like that's a big indicator that Tesla is the future of automobiles and why I want in so badly if it drops.
 
Epic tech with the crazy Alien Dreadnuaght and Full Self Driving coming in idk like 6 months!!!

Stock going to $10420

(People building cars by hand in a tent + driver assist)
 
I think it's just a massive short squeeze given the rest of the market has been so volatile, people are having to liquidate positions. The dot-com stocks did something even crazier...but hard to time these things, markets stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent etc etc
 
An environmental activist I liked, Robert Kennedy Jr., became an ardent anti vaxxer. Disappointing
 
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