Ford challenged Tesla to an ‘apples to apples’ tug-of-war between pickup trucks — Musk says ‘bring it on’ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/tes...sk-to-a-tug-of-war-between-pickup-trucks.html
The "stunt" was kinda lame and quickly called out on it by most everyone. Additionally don't electric vehicles has massive amounts of torque and HP that gas engines can't produce?? So the Ford will probably lose anyway?
Is the design all Elon's idea? There has to be a team involved, right? How on earth did they agree the truck looks ok?
May have been discussed but From the article I read its looks that way bc of the unibody panels. The reason they're "cheap" is bc a machine can cut the panels reasonably cheap and quick.
About the Nov 18 incident referenced in the Forbes article: “In this case, 1 out of about 40 exposures we took during our half-night of observations was affected by the satellite trails,” Johnson told Gizmodo in an email. “And in the case of that single exposure, a maximum of 15 percent of the image was affected by the trails." This does need more regulation though. Blew my mind that there isn't some central system where commercial satellites have to log their orbits. And also agree with the guy at the end of that guardian article saying that there is a balance between not affecting astronomy and still being able to bring people the internet.
Looks like the satellites haven’t had enough time to disburse yet since they are released from a single point.
So we just skipped right over the pollution on earth and were on to space because streaks on pictures? cool, cool, cool. Big to small problems is usually the best way to face them. I'd say this about a billion in line.
Those aren't rocket boosters. That's a Flux Capacitor. The person running this twitter has clearly never seen Back to the Future and that makes me sad
Stopped in the Tesla showroom on Saturday. Was going to check out an S and maybe drive it. They didn't have any though. The entire showroom was empty. No cars at all. Just an empty space with some interior options hanging on the wall and a couple touchscreens to build a car. And a guy sitting at a desk. But the stock hit $420 today.
That is really weird. I've never seen one without the 2-3 cars they want you to sit in and see. They clearly used to have them there. https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/tesla-at-town-center-jacksonville
Yea he said they had sold them but would have more mid-January. I know they normally have them though. That's why I stopped by.
Have they updated the models or something? Weird thing to sell off. Definitely a bad impression to give to customers.
My thought was maybe they did it to get new models for people to see something different but the middle of Xmas shopping in a huge mall area seemed like weird timing.
January is probably a slow sells time so they figured they could make a change with minimal disruption at this time. Just a guess though.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/t...-bigger-than-fords-was-at-its-peak-2020-01-07 https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-most-valuable-car-company-51578415861
This was the weekend before Xmas in a huge outdoor shopping mall with a ton of foot traffic. I might swing back by later this month.
It's impressive to see them worth more than Ford today but this article is a tad disingenuous. The other one explains it better. Tesla’s current market capitalization is approaching $83 billion and that exceeds the peak Ford Motor (F) market value of about $81 billion set in 1999, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Tesla’s market value is also larger than prebankruptcy General Motors (GM), current General Motors, and pre- Daimler (DAI.Germany) Chrysler or Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCAU). (Chrysler and Daimler merged in 1998.) It is an amazing number, but there are a couple of caveats. First, the statistic isn’t adjusted for inflation. General Motors was once the largest company in the world, back in the 1920s. The S&P 500, of course, was much lower then, trading for around 18 points. Today’s largest U.S. company is Apple (AAPL), worth more than $1.3 trillion, or about 4.3% of the nearly $30 trillion total value of stocks in the S&P 500. The percentage that GM represented of the total stock market in the late 1920s wasn’t available.
No money on the line so I don’t care that much anymore but I might name my new colt Funding Secured so fuck me maybe I do
What happened to all the tesla shorts? Have they jumped off buildings or are they still doubling down?