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Home Posts tagged "Elon Musk"

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk giving flawed charging advice on Twitter

April 11, 2019 April 17, 2019

Over the weekend Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a bunch of tweets including the above charging advice. At least these tweets did not get him in trouble with the SEC, as he has done so many times over the last year. But this particular advice seems (to me) to not…

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Elon Musk claims Tesla Autopilot drivers less mentally fatigued after long drives

March 26, 2019 March 26, 2019

How much is “peace of mind” worth on your daily commute? If you arrive at the office well rested, or arrive home well rested, even after a 50 mile grind through logjammed traffic, is that “well rested” state justification for paying a premium price for a car? Tesla’s CEO Elon…

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands accused of believing his own press releases

August 18, 2018 August 18, 2018

Is Elon Musk going insane?  Or has Elon Musk started believing his own press releases?  Those suggestions come from two different news articles analyzing the fallout from Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s suggestion to take Tesla private, and his subsequent interview with the NY Times in which he admitted this year…

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Tesla Motors doesn’t look like company gobbling at the public tax dollars trough

June 6, 2015 June 6, 2015
Tesla Model S First Delivery, June 2012

Does Tesla Motors owe its existence to government subsidies? More than once the company was on the edge of bankruptcy, and kept afloat by infusions of capital, and of course their products (Model S) are sold in part because of government subsidies for electric cars. Recently a big news outlet…

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Tesla Motors requires 10+ car factories, 10+ gigafactories, by 2025, to meet Musks projections

January 14, 2015 October 19, 2015

Tesla Motors has to remain on a course of rapidly growing sales, service and production capacity.  Why?  In a recent interview with Bloomberg News, Elon Musk confidently predicted that by 2025 the total Tesla Motors sales volume will be a “few million cars per year”.  As cool as their factory…

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Elon Musk preaches to Detroit the urgency of electric car adoption to avoid climate change catastrophes

January 14, 2015 April 29, 2015
Tesla Family

Elon Musk has gone to Detroit for the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) this week preaching that between climate change and fracking there’s an urgent necessity to switch to electrified vehicles and establish a price on carbon.  The comments came in a long (1 hour) interview with Bloomberg News…

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Elon Musk: Our stock price is obviously far too high

August 22, 2013 April 13, 2015
Tesla Model S

Tesla Motors’ stock (TSLA) is caught in a wave of hype, leaving Tesla CEO Elon Musk grasping for the best way to describe the company’s sky high valuation. The last time we reported on Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock price, last April, it had just broken above $40 a share thanks to good news…

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Will the Tesla Supercharger network sink the company, or help it fly high?

March 27, 2013 April 13, 2015

Is the Tesla Supercharger network a big money pit that will sink the company, or is it an uber-cool strategy that will propel Tesla to greatness?  That’s a big question we’re pondering, and in the balance hangs not just a scrappy start-up electric car company, but the whole project of…

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