What will it take to make you seriously consider an EV?

“By the middle of next year, we’ll have over a million Tesla cars on the road with Full Self-Driving hardware,” Musk said in 2019. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature would be so reliable the driver could “go to sleep,” he added. (Teslas with the company’s FSD software are not autonomous, and drivers would be well advised to not sleep in their cars.)

 

I have the newest FSD, but it is totally pointless to me as long as I am forced to move the steering wheel all the time to prove that I am still in the car.

 

LOL, yeah right!

It's April 6th now. Based on the switch to FSD 12 and the recent statement FSD training is no longer "compute constrained", we should know well before August 8th if the robotaxi blather has any legitimacy.

Driving from my home near Highway 6 in Mo City to IAH with one (unnecessary) intervention is pretty good. Levelling up to robotaxis (i.e, the last mile) is another thing altogether.

 

Waited for stock to take a hit after the article, then pump it back up.

I mean it’s not like a large cap company on the stock market should be doing press releases or anything…/s

 

Attack pedestrians with strollers activate.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/s/AtmNCjMKnG

 

I did Nazi that coming.

 

I can only imagine the condition those robo taxis would return in -- it would become a tic tac challenge to destroy the most robo Teslas.

 

Take a wild guess as to when this idiot here bought his used Tesla...

 

67,900.

 

Except I paid like 90k.

 

Imagine being a high successful and world renown Tesla trader complaining about overpaying tree fiddy for a big mac.

 

??

what are you on about…
Go take your morning meds.

 

TESLA IS AMERICA'S FRANCHISE CAR

 

About Tesla overseas rather than about the U.S. EV Market. More at the link if one is interested.

When Elon Musk lands in India, the red carpet for Tesla — and a few red flags

...New Delhi hopes the entry of the marquee EV flagbearer, just like it was in China, will be a catalyst for its domestic electric four-wheeler push. So much so that after turning down Tesla’s demand for upfront import duty cuts two years ago, it believes the latest cuts, with a post-dated investment pledge and progressive localisation targets, are worth it.

The key issues that will frame the talks with Tesla:

* Policy rethink: The new EV policy, which effectively lowered import duties to 15 per cent from 100 per cent on car models costing over $35,000 if its manufacturer promised to invest $500 million in setting up a local factory, is being seen as a move to welcome Tesla. This marks a part reversal of the domestic manufacturing policy push given that the duty cuts are aimed at enabling a carmaker to import fully built cars made in a foreign country, even though there is an implicit promise of building a factory at a future date backed by bank guarantees, and progressively increasing domestic manufacturing targets. Tesla had pitched for cars to be imported from its Shanghai factory but — given the optics of imports from China — is now likely to get the first lot from its Berlin-Brandenburg factory. This is learnt to be at New Delhi’s insistence...


...For now, though, officials and industry experts say that there may be pointers from China on how it facilitated Tesla’s entry – by dropping a key provision for JV partners and tightening emission norms – and then used it to kick-start its own homegrown EV industry.

China now has four of the most aggressive EV makers that have world-class products: BYD, XPENG, Nio and Li Motors; it has the top two battery makers in the world: CATL and BYD; and a presence throughout the Li-ion battery chain, including owning lithium, cobalt and nickel mines overseas and entire shipping fleets to transport the minerals back home. While BYD makes batteries for its own electric cars and is a major supplier of batteries to EV makers globally, Tesla almost entirely sources its EV batteries from suppliers such as Panasonic and CATL.

 

Some chatter on Stock oriented places on the Internet about Tesla having some layoffs soon.

 

Yeah...imagine that.

 

The layoffs seem typical..at least every few years they cut by 10%?

but...two high profile executives have left..recently the CFO left..no?