Tesla Talk 2

is it poor to have to replace bushings after 80k (i wouldnt have thought so but i havent had a car with that kind of mileage in a long time)

The Tesla is the only one where I’ve had to get them repaired….. and they were shot at 50-60k km's to be honest.

The front cameras, that are the most important ones for driving, are backed up by the wipers and headlamps same as you. Very far from your goggle analogy. That may apply to the other cameras but not the front ones.

As of the quality of the FSD 14 vs the basic autopilot you can check out any youtube videos. The autopilot can't even stay on the Irish motorway without randomly trying to kill you, whereas the FSD can drive on snow covered roads without any markings.

There's no " maintenance" of bushings. When they wear out, replace them. So the part is inferior compared with the market unfortunately.

Great that they can be replaced under warranty. But time, repeat NCT test, more time, more cost is all at the owners expense.

We'll have to see if this has been sorted in more recent years, with longer lasting suspension parts. But taxi NCT says it hasn't.

What doesn't make sense ..the data is the data. you were querying why when profitability is dropping cash reserves were growing….simply put they make more than they spend each quarter and the numbers are clear. Of course that could change, was merely responding to your confusion about how cash could increase (it has) when profits have reduced (not dissapeared)

Margins are down, but Tesla are still making a profit. $4 billion net profit last year. Thus increasing their cash reserves (when the cash is not going towards capital spending)

The profit was twice that the year before. And 4 times that the year before that year. So yes the profit has dramatically shrunk.

Nobody answered you I think, but yes, they're discontinuing the S and X.

And nobody but Musk will know the answer to your second question, but after that earnings statement I am 99% confident that Tesla will be exiting the consumer car space in the coming years.

Robotaxi, Optimus, Cybercab etc are all about automation, AI, and in the commercial space. Same with the Semi Truck, if they ever manage to scale production on that one.

Other than that, the only part of their business on the rise is storage and services.

Good article on it here:

A top Tesla executive said that the company should be viewed more as “transportation as a service” than as an automaker. And Musk repeated his assertion that Tesla didn’t need to make more mass-market vehicles because, in the future, all cars will be autonomous.

And a bit later, Musk doubled down. “So, you know, I think long-term… the only vehicles that we’ll make will be autonomous vehicles.”

Why would you buy a car from a manufacturer who wishes to pivot out of the automotive space within the validity period of a supposed warranty. Tesla better get their media messaging in control.

How's that Model X, Fred?