Tesla Talk

yeah, so although taking the 5,000km is by far the better value use of the referral credits, I'd only do it if I was going to be passing SuC's and using them on a daily basis, as in reality 5,000km will be about 8,000km real world km's, so any regular user would struggle to use that many in 6 months...

Sales are good. The Model Y is the best selling car in China 😮 as well as still the best selling car in the world this year (as some of you recall I predicted last year)

Brazen comment though from Musk that they might further cut prices of Model 3 and Model Y as the elephant in the room in the earnings update is that the margin is down to 9.6%. That's a huge drop in margin, but I suppose still very healthy compared to the competition.

I suspect TSLA will drop sharply when the Nasdaq opens today. The short term focussed market don't like that sort of stuff...

Very true. He basically said if times go harder he'd consider more cuts to shift volume but then he also said that economic forecasts change daily and that we are in "turbulent times" (which I agree with).

So no one really knows what will happen.

One thing though is that if there is another cut, will the SEAI grant be gone by then (currently being phased out altogether I believe)? Because if it is it might just come back down to the same price it is now which makes sense.

If anyone is interested

Will be a good bit more next year than if you got one a few weeks ago, even if Elon cuts the prices again 😂

Ioniq 5 is a great car. More of a competitor to the Model Y though, isn't it? You will lose a lot of space and practicality if you move to Model 3

Why don't you hang on to the Ioniq 5 for a while longer? Great looking car. Looks are objective but imho it's the nicest looking in class. And neither the Model 3 nor the Model Y are lookers.

Lovely car!

They only announced an "N" version (i.e performance) of it the other day.

I still think it's overpriced here though compared to the MY though. And I like the MY looks myself... Remimds me of an aggressive fish! 😂

There’s a Tesla ranger living locally near me and he drive a Ford van for the job.

would it not make sense and better marketing to have him in a commercial version of a model Y?

there would be just as much space in it.

it doesn’t look great surely having a diesel van coming to fix a Tesla?

Also Tom came to us in an S.

I live in the mid west so maybe it’s down to lack of charging infrastructure.

Same to me.

Gotta agree, but I guess it is not often they have to bring a part as big as a seat. And I have to admit it looks awesome when there is a Model S "van" parked right beside my own Model S to service it. The kids in my estate go mental when they see that 😁

Went into town for dinner last night and spotted two different Model S within a few minutes. Now that is rare, wonder how many there are in the country, did anyone ever find out? Just a hunch that it is somewhere between 100 and 200. I'm still the only Model S in Lucan afaik (population between Adamstown and Lucan maybe up to about 60,000 or thereabouts)