read something recently which surmised that be bought twitter as a payment platform not a social media one, no idea as i dont use it myself!
Yes the only thing that makes sense to me is to create a single app that does it all. Pretty much all phone and video calls, all emails, all messaging, all sharing, all payments, all streaming, all social media, all online shopping, all deliveries. One app that does everything. Like they have WeChat in China. If you got a few billion people to exclusively use that, would be an extremely powerful and profitable business
All sold, bought 7 days ago for $299, sold just now for $329. Sweet. Now the usual wait begins again as usual. With of course again the one big risk I am taking: it will go up higher and I won't be able to buy back in. But you can never take away realised gains.
Marques Brownlee does a comparison between Waymo and Tesla taxis in Austin
Basically both are only at the start of the curve and need a lot of improvement and Waymo is a bit ahead when it comes to the user experience. And Tesla still has the safety person in the car
That said, Waymo has been around as a taxi for nearly 7 years. Tesla just a few months…
There be years of teething problems with this. Waymo crashed into a fire truck this week. Just goes to show that all the lidar in the world doesn’t make these things much better.
It's a mistake to believe robotaxis - from whatever manufacturer - will never crash or should not be allowed until they are proven to never cause any issues. The only thing we need here is for them to be proven safer than humans. They will kill people. It is inevitable.
Agree somewhat. Even though I don’t have any interest in the robotaxi/ FSD currently.
Every success story start out with failure stories.
The end goal would be standardized protocols and automated roads where all the cars are communicating with rhe road and with each other making accidents very unlikely. A time will come where only autonomous vehicles are allowed on certain roads.
You can't jump straight to that. It needs to evolve. We're unfortunately in the early crappy stages of that evolution. Think of the early days of the ICE. Although I would expect the evolution to be very rapid, especially once AI evolves to a level where technological advancements are exponential and cheap. It sounds like pie in the sky. Many would disagree and many more would say it's very close to reality.
I picked myself up another Model S yesterday, can't help myself 🤪
Its a view…but not sure everyone would believe in what yu beleive to be the end goal of the necessity for cars to communicate with the road and how scalable and cost effectove that would be for mass market road usage
where what kind how much…?
NI. I could tell you how much, but then I would have to kill you 😂
Removed frunk, topped up coolant with G48, checked 12V battery, got tyres done, booked in for brakes in the morning, Tesla service booked for tomorrow to replace the main battery fuse. The car won the battery lottery as it was originally an 85D, but Tesla fitted a brand new 90D battery. They normally only ever fit reconditioned batteries, but they must have run out. Sunroof not working, but I am not getting that fixed - it is not leaking. 129k miles on the clock. CCS upgrade done. Black, good spec, don't know yet if it has 11kW or 22kW AC charging. It was still showing 220km range after my 160km trip back from NI, so battery is very good
On Irish plates the weekend after next, then NCT - it should get 2 full years NCT as the car is from 2016. Then I'll put it up for sale. It should easily be the cheapest Model S for sale in Ireland that doesn't have any major issues
Anyone interested, PM me
Wheres the thread about what you bought next Unkel?
I'd have to start one several times a year if I did that again 😂 I thought I might as well post in here as it's a Tesla this time. Not a motorbike or a micro car or a nano car or a van or a scooter or a bike. Or a former diesel car. Just an EV 😂
Mmmh, I haven't done an electric boat yet. Must put that on the list of things to do…
I heard that some recent update removes battery health test, I wonder if anyone noticed that?
Has anybody heard any more about the model 2/Q/Redwood that was due for deliveries in 2025 (this year)
Feels like the deadline might get missed
from the web
Industry analysts forecast late 2025 to 2026 as a realistic earliest delivery window.
There's a few of those websites out there yeah. Nothing concrete from Tesla themselves though
Nope. It’s always just websites throwing FUD around.
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https://archive.is/BmYmS
At these discounted lease prices in the UK Tesla must be losing money on each unit sold.
that won’t be remembered when people post the Aug UK deliveries :)
There’s been an incredible amount of insider selling resently - from Kimball M, Murdock, senior exec’s, directors, CFO etc - apparently they’ve sold down over 50% of their combined shares.
Absolutely no one buying. For momentum stocks like Tesla, it’s hugely telling.
There’s infinite reasons why someone sells shares, but almost no positive reason for the share price for them to sell so much, and for no one to be buying.
I've said it before but anyone buying or selling or hodling TSLA at the moment is just gambling.
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discounted lease deals in the UK seem to be the norm from BMW to Audi to Mercedes, pity we cant avail of these deals here.
It's one thing that is really missing from our market here, we never get any good private car lease deals.
Everyone and his mother in the UK and US can lease cheaper than buying, sometimes drastically so, but not here.
yep have often look jealously at threads on pistonheads and similar with some ridiculous lease deals on some very nice performance motors in the UK, VW especially from what i can recall, guess its too small a market here.
”Tesla lease customers can currently secure a Model 3 RWD standard range, with a list price of just under £40,000, for £300 a month including VAT via Silverstone Leasing. According to the Times, a similar deal a year ago would have cost between £600 and £700.”
Lease deals are why only 10% of UK annual car sales are what we would call ‘private’ sales, according to SMMT.
That Tesla lease is a bit like us paying €300 on a €37k RWD, which is €18k over a 5 year lease, and a 5 year old RWD is worth €19k at best today, so really you’re still paying all the depreciation, it’s just ‘interest free’ - or do I have that wrong?
As for the previous lease price, Imagine paying £700/€800 pm for a model 3?
Suspect that headline £300 also includes an upfront payment and the term may well be 36 months as opposed to 60. Without the specifics its difficult to form a view
Yes will be 24 or 36 months potentially with a 3 or 4 month payment at the start as well
Depending on the upfront lump, I suppose it’s about €1k pa better than buying outright, in an Irish context, and obviously if you’re a business it makes it a no-brainer, but it’s possibly no better than we’d pay here, even with this big drop.
It makes the previous £700 lease a pretty awful deal.
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