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Seeing Teslas everywhere I look

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    #32
    gally74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭gally74


    seeing teslas everywhere

    how many smoking weed .... BOOM

    Musk will ruin it the way hes going


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    #33
    Sabre Man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Sabre Man


    Tesla adds ‘Passive Entry’ to combat vehicle theft by keyless-entry exploit
    https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-passive-entry-ota-update-prevent-keyless-entry-theft/

    Do any other cars have protection against relay theft?


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    #34
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭daheff


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Theyre getting common now. Saw 3 in north dublin today!


    according to this site, there were >100 New Teslas sold so far this year in Ireland

    BEV sales 2018 to AUG

    74 Model S
    31 Model X


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    #35
    Trasna1
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    gally74 wrote: »
    seeing teslas everywhere

    how many smoking weed .... BOOM

    Musk will ruin it the way hes going

    It costs a cool $250k I understand to insure $1m of Tesla debt against default.

    Whatever about Tesla fans, the markets confidence in the company is shrinking.


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    #36
    Sabre Man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Sabre Man


    Trasna1 wrote: »
    It costs a cool $250k I understand to insure $1m of Tesla debt against default.

    Whatever about Tesla fans, the markets confidence in the company is shrinking.

    Do you have a reliable source for this?


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    #37
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Sabre Man wrote: »
    Do you have a reliable source for this?

    You mean like the stock price?


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    #38
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    gally74 wrote: »
    seeing teslas everywhere

    how many smoking weed .... BOOM

    Musk will ruin it the way hes going

    Most of the world has grown up regarding it's attitude towards weed. Ireland was always behind the rest


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    #39
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Autochange wrote: »
    Most of the world has grown up regarding it's attitude towards weed. Ireland was always behind the rest

    The share price took another beating, its not a question of "behind the times" attitudes to marijuana.

    There's not a company in earth that would want its CEO smoking dope in public.


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    #40
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    DrPhilG wrote: »
    The share price took another beating, its not a question of "behind the times" attitudes to marijuana.

    There's not a company in earth that would want its CEO smoking dope in public.

    Did you listen or better yet watch the podcast


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    #41
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Autochange wrote: »
    Did you listen or better yet watch the podcast

    Nope, nor do I need to.

    The effect on the share price says it was a bad idea.

    It's not about doing something wrong, it's about the public perception that you did.


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    #42
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    DrPhilG wrote: »
    Nope, nor do I need to.

    The effect on the share price says it was a bad idea.

    It's not about doing something wrong, it's about the public perception that you did.

    Yes. That is correct. But if you listened ntonte podcast you would realise that musk is definitely not a business man. He is an inventor and a genius. Slightly odd too. He is better left to coming up with the ideas and making them a reality. Leave the buisness side to more suitable people.


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    #43
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Autochange wrote: »
    He is better left to coming up with the ideas and making them a reality. Leave the business side to more suitable people.

    Exactly my point, the problem is that he isn't doing that.


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    #44
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    DrPhilG wrote: »
    Exactly my point, the problem is that he isn't doing that.

    He isn't capable. Too many wild ideas spook investors looking for stability for their pension pots. Have you heard of his plan to dig a tunnel under La?


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    #45
    gally74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭gally74


    Autochange wrote: »
    Most of the world has grown up regarding it's attitude towards weed. Ireland was always behind the rest

    its not the point,

    TESLA will only survive with Financial backing, he did the solo run on the private thing, then this.....

    Hell be sidelined soon by the board if its not too late...

    could end up being a delorean....

    He should have never tried to build the cars himself, just look at the I pace contracted out to magna in Austria! he was ahead of the curve with design and the battery tech is good, but he should have either got one of the big 3 in the US to build TESLA's joint venture or done an Iphone on it and let the chinese do it
    I did work as an engineer in the car industry before, you dont learn mass production over night,

    And i like and own an EV.


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    #46
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    gally74 wrote: »
    its not the point,

    TESLA will only survive with Financial backing, he did the solo run on the private thing, then this.....

    Hell be sidelined soon by the board if its not too late...

    could end up being a delorean....

    He should have never tried to build the cars himself, just look at the I pace contracted out to magna in Austria! he was ahead of the curve with design and the battery tech is good, but he should have either got one of the big 3 in the US to build TESLA's joint venture or done an Iphone on it and let the chinese do it
    I did work as an engineer in the car industry before, you dont learn mass production over night,

    And i like and own an EV.

    Yes I know. Read my other posts after that one.


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    #47
    eric hoone
    Registered Users Posts: 485 ✭✭eric hoone


    First tesla I saw was parked at the gates of Windsor castle and I had no idea, thought it was some kind of limited edition fancy saloon commissioned for the royals or other superelites. Had customised number plates so might have belonged to one of them...


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    #48
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,120 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Charles opeted for the Jaguar over the Tesla so it wasn't him.


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    #49
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    I see the odd one in Kilkenny. All D regs of course. And one local one I see regularly. Very eye catching cars


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    #50
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,224 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Trasna1 wrote: »
    It costs a cool $250k I understand to insure $1m of Tesla debt against default.

    Whatever about Tesla fans, the markets confidence in the company is shrinking.

    Post exec departures and marijuana, it’s 2025 bonds were trading at 84% of face value which implies a widening of credit spreads and the cost of credit default protection but not up to 25% at this stage.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-07/tesla-tumbles-after-chief-accounting-officer-quits-after-just-one-month


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    #51
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,538 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    I see teslas everywhere and work 100 feet from the dealership in Dublin. They are awful looking generic grey boxes for the price of them and generally driven by people with limited companies working a company car tax break. They were cool with their big screens and technology at first but now every new car has the same tech and big screens. Musk has gone off the rails and seems like a man on the edge.

    I have little faith that that company will still be there as is in 5 years, all the other car manufactures are rapidly catching up and will be much better at building cars.


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    #52
    Cakes and Ale
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    Spotted one today in a car park of a big shopping centre on the outskirts of South Dublin. Maybe the drivers of these are as obnoxious as Musk; this guy practically reversed into me and another car in his haste to get out of the charging bay, then barged his way out against the one-way system too. Charming.


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    #53
    StereoSound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭StereoSound


    I seen one parked in Finglas recently, even the bum areas of Dublin have them.


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    #54
    maclek
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭maclek


    Cheyenne Many Summertime wrote: »
    I see teslas everywhere and work 100 feet from the dealership in Dublin. They are awful looking generic grey boxes for the price of them and generally driven by people with limited companies working a company car tax break. They were cool with their big screens and technology at first but now every new car has the same tech and big screens. Musk has gone off the rails and seems like a man on the edge.

    I have little faith that that company will still be there as is in 5 years, all the other car manufactures are rapidly catching up and will be much better at building cars.


    So that puts you in the audi dealership across the road?


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    #55
    Idioteque
    Registered Users Posts: 622 ✭✭✭Idioteque


    Cheyenne Many Summertime wrote: »
    ...all the other car manufactures are rapidly catching up and will be much better at building cars.

    Well that'll be great for everyone then. Interestingly enough, it's the reason he says he set up Tesla, to try encourage more growth of people transitioning to EV's via giving the other car makers a bit of a thorn in their sides via a pesky upstart coming into their market and making a more desirable EV.


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    #56
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    Byd are a bigger and more successful manufacturer than over priced Tesla


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    #57
    liamog
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 7,840 Mod ✭✭✭✭liamog


    Autochange wrote: »
    Byd are a bigger and more successful manufacturer than over priced Tesla


    They are targeting very different sections of the market.


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    #58
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,366 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Autochange wrote: »
    Byd are a bigger and more successful manufacturer than over priced Tesla

    But yet they are worth about a 1/4 if what Tesla is.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jackperkowski/2018/05/16/once-a-stock-market-darling-byd-now-bears-brunt-of-chinas-changing-electric-vehicle-regulations/amp/

    I didn’t realise that Warren Buffet owns 10%.


    Are BYD building automation and pushing on other manufacturers or are they just building cars with electric engines ?


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    #59
    Genghis
    Registered Users Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭Genghis


    A Tesla passed me by on my bike today, and the next car right behind it: the even lesser-spotted eGolf.


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    #60
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    ted1 wrote: »
    But yet they are worth about a 1/4 if what Tesla is.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jackperkowski/2018/05/16/once-a-stock-market-darling-byd-now-bears-brunt-of-chinas-changing-electric-vehicle-regulations/amp/

    I didn’t realise that Warren Buffet owns 10%.


    Are BYD building automation and pushing on other manufacturers or are they just building cars with electric engines ?

    Of course they are worth less. Tesla is a worldwide name. As another poster said they are targeting different markets. They are targeting much more diverse markets

    But in the long term they may be more successful.


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    #61
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,366 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Autochange wrote: »
    Of course they are worth less. Tesla is a worldwide name. As another poster said they are targeting different markets. They are targeting much more diverse markets

    But in the long term they may be more successful.

    So when you said
    “Byd are a bigger and more successful manufacturer than over priced Tesla”

    You were telling porkies.


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