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Tesla Model 3's huge pre-orders burn as Elon Musk fiddles [updated]
Computer World ^ | Apr 4, 2016 3:09 AM PT | Rich Jennings

Posted on 04/04/2016 1:48:45 PM PDT by ckilmer

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To: PAR35
Just run the cars on cold fusion.

Mr. Fusion.

21 posted on 04/04/2016 2:31:22 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Fai Mao

Big talk. How many businesses have YOU started? How many people are you employing ?


22 posted on 04/04/2016 2:33:18 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: 4rcane

That’s some serious overbite there. Maybe it should grow a moustache? :)


23 posted on 04/04/2016 2:34:56 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: ckilmer

I already made money shorting Tesla, and will do it again. It is a welfare company, and any stock that fluctuates over a 52 week period this much remains on my “suspect” list : )


24 posted on 04/04/2016 2:37:29 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: 4rcane

never mind how his business is financed. The car is technically and visually very impressive

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Yes. And regards to financing, Tesla is financed by investors, most notably Musk himself.


25 posted on 04/04/2016 2:40:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I’d love to see the stock go way down, but that’s just selfishness on my part.


26 posted on 04/04/2016 2:42:20 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62

I think it will happen, as I believe the company is a house of welfare mirrors. Most people don’t want or can afford one.


27 posted on 04/04/2016 2:46:19 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Moonman62

Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html

Tesla’s Government Handouts Are the Gift That Keeps On Giving

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/12/30/teslas-profitability-hasnt-stopped-the-government-handouts


28 posted on 04/04/2016 2:47:15 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: smoothsailing
Doesn’t solar fry a lot of birds?
29 posted on 04/04/2016 2:47:26 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: TexasGator

All cars come with a Honda electric generator. You supply the gasoline.


30 posted on 04/04/2016 2:49:14 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: Fresh Wind

Tesla got $295M in subsidies for technology it didn’t offer

http://watchdog.org/230562/telsa-cap-and-trade/

Elon Musk’s $5 Billion in Govt Subsidies Helps Make Ends Meet

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/31/elon-musks-5-billion-in-govt-subsidies-helps-make-ends-meet/


31 posted on 04/04/2016 2:51:09 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
No thought at all to where the electricity...will come from

Everybody knows that!

From the wall spark thing!!

32 posted on 04/04/2016 3:02:18 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I don’t doubt that you’re right. Its guaranteed that since the stock price is not based on fundamentals-it will fluctuate sufficiently to make a living for a good trader.

The big laugh at the conference was the promised delivery date. that is the end of 2017.

Is there any relationship between delivery back ups and shorting opportunities?


33 posted on 04/04/2016 3:10:15 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: Fightin Whitey

LOL!


34 posted on 04/04/2016 3:11:51 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: ckilmer

Probably is, but the easiet way is to watch for an inordinate run up in stock price for no apparent reason. Like when it went up to 285: )


35 posted on 04/04/2016 3:13:34 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: TexasGator; Blood of Tyrants

Exactly right! The excess capacity from base-load generators can handle the night-time charging of several million E.V.s. After that, who knows — but, it’s absolutely not an issue in the near term. In fact, this extra off-peak demand will likely be a huge windfall for generating companies (the cost of base-load electricity is a fraction of peak-load generation costs). While it’s too much to hope that’ll result in cost-savings for consumers; it might, at least, slow down electricity-rate increases.


36 posted on 04/04/2016 3:15:04 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: ckilmer

Saw a Tesla on the way home today (JAX, FL) It looked interesting from the rear, then saw the tesla name. saw briefly from the side. It was not bad. But most cars today are very ugly IMHO so it isn’t hard to look better than average.


37 posted on 04/04/2016 3:25:06 PM PDT by visualops (It's the majority of the American people and Trump against the enemies of the republic - Windflier)
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To: smoothsailing
Doesn’t solar fry a lot of birds?

So does Col Sanders!

38 posted on 04/04/2016 3:25:31 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: ckilmer

The Tessella is just another cube . Those who support it are squares or stockholders (same thing, really). Huey Lewis once said it was hip to be you guys.


39 posted on 04/04/2016 3:27:15 PM PDT by Dirt for sale
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To: visualops

its funny how people say its not hard, yet so many car companies keep making very ugly cars. I don’t understand why people are buying them


40 posted on 04/04/2016 3:34:46 PM PDT by 4rcane
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