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DASKAA saysSunnyvaleCA saysDASKAA saysSubstitute Tesla for Amazon, electric cars for online retail and legacy car companies for brick-and-mortar retail giants
Do you realize that Benz, Daimler, Porsche, and many others had hybrid-electric cars well before Musk was even born?
Um, no, they didn't. First hybrid was Prius and Mask was already adult and millionaire. First German hybrid didn't appear till 2010 iirc. And hybrid-electric is not the same as full-electric. It's a cludge at best. Besides, if these guys are ready to eat Elon's lunch, why BMW's electric offers suck so much and the rest don't have anything at all (well Daimler did have a fully-electric offering based on .... drumroll... Tesla drivetrain).
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Tesla will end up selling the batteries to other automakers. Tesla cares are mostly a proof of concept that they might abandon at some point.
SunnyvaleCA saysDASKAA saysSunnyvaleCA saysDASKAA saysSubstitute Tesla for Amazon, electric cars for online retail and legacy car companies for brick-and-mortar retail giants
Do you realize that Benz, Daimler, Porsche, and many others had hybrid-electric cars well before Musk was even born?
Um, no, they didn't. First hybrid was Prius and Mask was already adult and millionaire. First German hybrid didn't appear till 2010 iirc. And hybrid-electric is not the same as full-electric. It's a cludge at best. Besides, if these guys are ready to eat Elon's lunch, why BMW's electric offers suck so much and the rest don't have anything at all (well Daimler did have a fully-elect...
Anyone know how well a Tesla does as a paperweight?
"First German hybrid didn't appear till 2010 iirc." I can understand you not remembering correctly. You weren't born yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche
http://www.paicehybrid.com/tag/1906-mercedes-mixte/
The point of the links above above is that all-electric cars and hybrid-electric cars have been around for a century. (Actually, there were all-electric cars 150 years ago.) The battery technology sure has increased a lot, but that's not a Tesla invention either
SunnyvaleCA says"First German hybrid didn't appear till 2010 iirc." I can understand you not remembering correctly. You weren't born yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche
http://www.paicehybrid.com/tag/1906-mercedes-mixte/
The point of the links above above is that all-electric cars and hybrid-electric cars have been around for a century. (Actually, there were all-electric cars 150 years ago.) The battery technology sure has increased a lot, but that's not a Tesla invention either
Nice straw man. Nobody is saying battery in itself was "Tesla invention". And I'm perfectly aware of literally dozens of models of American electric cars sold at the turn on 20 century. It's all as irrelevant to today as Porsche "hybrid" of the same time.
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My point is that battery powered cars and hybrid cars have been around for a very very long time. It's not new technology and Tesla hasn't invented some sort of new "killer" technology.
Do you know electric cars have pretty much been perfected since 1938 but the oil companies and their loosely knit coalitions have blocked electric cars from ever becoming mainstream no matter how good they might be, they’re not profitable enough for enough people.
Online buying is a good long term move - dealerships add no value to EVs, they're $1000/car drag to ICEs.
Yep, this reminds me of NFLX move away from DVD into streaming-only model and all the howling that ensued. Proved to be right move long-term.
Hugolas_Madurez saysYep, this reminds me of NFLX move away from DVD into streaming-only model and all the howling that ensued. Proved to be right move long-term.
So, people will order Tesla's online just like they order streaming movies from Netflix?
Really?
revenue just keeps going up. Hard to figure out what a fair price is
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It's over $300, with a loss of $10/share, but revenue just keeps going up. Hard to figure out what a fair price is since it doesn't make money yet.
How would you come up with a fair price per share?