Tesla Model 3
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- inv0
276k Model 3 orders by end of Sat !!
- utopian0
The Tesla Model X has been recalled
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/te…
- PonyBoy0
It's a nice model for sure... but if you were to go up to a Maserati owner and ask "is that the new Tesla model?" I don't think you get the same smile you might get from a Tesla owner being asked what they paid for their Maserati.
- Until the Tesla smokes the Maserati off the line. ;)monospaced
- ha... That actually would be fun to watch. :)PonyBoy
- This Tesla 3 does 0-60 in "less than 6 seconds". I think a Maserati could beat it.iCanHazQBN
- That's the base model. Real as are FAST!!!monospaced
- "Real as are" = Teslas
(fucking autocorrect)monospaced
- PonyBoy2
uh oh...
THE HIDDEN WORKFORCE EXPANDING TESLA’S FACTORY
"The automaker’s urgent upgrade of its Fremont facility benefited from cheap, imported workers, but did the companies involved flout visa and labor laws?"
- utopian1
Sir Helmut Musk
- BusterBoy0
On the one hand I think he's awesome. On the other, he's a complete and utter dick. Some of his tweets today make him seem like a Trump mini me...
- utopian-5
Elon Musk doesn't care about you.
If he did, he would have details about the things that matter to customers and shareholders — the progress of the Model 3, his company's profitability, and continued efforts to make his cars as safe as possible.
Sorry.
- can a nice person rise up the ranks these days?mugwart
- Why would he care about you/me? Has he ever claimed to, or any CEO for that matter, to "care" about you? That's not his job.formed
- This is the problem with being a public company and listed on the stock exchange. Too many people bitching and just caring about increasing profits/ share priceM01XXX
- As if Tesla hadn't seen a meteoric rise in stock price since its listing. And people still expect so much despite it being relatively new company.M01XXX
- Tesla has made so many new innovations and gave electric cars a renaissance. What exactly did the old school gas car co's do?M01XXX
- It's also the problem with being a
"Celebrity CEO."Hayzilla
- err0
- utopian-1
Elon Musk is humiliating himself
Elon Musk's True Colors. The Tesla founder is ramping up his efforts to undermine the media in the wake of critical coverage of his company. In doing so, he is showing himself to be a thin-skinned bully who isn't as smart as we had thought or hoped.
- The rockstar love affair and media honeymoon for Musk is all but over.utopian
- He wants to crowd source the perceived legitimacy of journalists and news outlets. What's wrong with that?ETM
- And of course a news outlet would slant the story negatively. *eyerollETM
- Did you hear Elon belittling his investors live? Juts blame the media for publishing and criticizing the asshat for which he is.utopian
- crowd sourcing the legitimacy of journalists?!? lol. what could go wrong I mean, the downvote system here works so well! *eyerollkona
- But you're confusing the possible outcome, with the original intent, which has potential.ETM
- And you don't know the mechanisms, checks, balances etc. that could be in place. But then again, he is a naive idiot. Digg 3.0!!ETM
- But I digress, because, you know... QBN.ETM
- So, people would rather put their trust in dicks that bag the media to push their agenda...like Musk and Trump rather than the media collective? Fuck that.BusterBoy
- utopian-2
"The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them."
Elon Musk
- Elon is sounding a lot like Donald J. Trump these days.utopian
- What a fucking helmet!utopian
- Just because Donnie is calling media 'fake news' whenever they don't kiss his ass doesn't mean media has been always truthful/ trustworthy.M01XXX
- The news media had 0% to due with his outburst, belittling his investors. He is man child, asshat whom I lost lost a lot of respect for over the past two weeksutopian
- Who cares about "investors". I care about world changing tech and stuff that can make our society & life better. Not "investors".M01XXX
- The "investors" on that call were in fact short sellers. Also he's had to face a lot of bullshit from the industry, both corporate and journalists. I understandzarkonite
- why he's tired of the bullshit.zarkonite
- funny..the smartest guy in the room can't get his own production line to run properly for three years straight...stable genius!utopian
- Model 3 hasn't been in production for 3 years, Ute. X and S are, and have been for a long time, deliverable.detritus
- ...but they're higher-margin cars. If Muskie casn't get 'mid-priced' delivery on M.3 by Autumn, I believe Tesla will be fucked.
And then bought-out by Apple...detritus
- fate0
Utopian, this is no different than Steve Jobs, or most any person in a position of power. De Blasio is going through a very similar "controversy" right now.
I completely agree with M01XXX's take.
"Can't get his own production line to run properly for three years straight" is not an accurate take.
- The mofo takes major fukin risks in many areas, he's gonna have fuck ups... and he's beat NASA, virgin, and blue originrobotron3k
- And every major car manufacturer on the planets...robotron3k
- detritus0
I respect and .. well, not revere per se.. but super-appreciate what he's done for the world. That said, I think he can be a bit of a prick.
Who wouldn't be in his position?
I liked an article I read on The Register earlier, by a UK Journalist..
- An opinion piece by a woman named "Kieren from San Francisco", i wonder if it will have just a tiny bit of liberal bias?robotron3k
- A UK journalist, eh?ETM
- haha, shit - no, absolutely not!
*simply assumed* :)detritus - Reg has a lot of uk journos writing for it, I simply assumed by her style she was one. Sort of a compliment, in my own sad little British way.detritus
- damnit robo, can you be more obvious about your disdain for women?monospaced
- I think Elon has the right to be a prick, but that in his position he should learn to be a better public figure.monospaced
- BusterBoy0
The tactic of trying to completely destroy the credibility of those that may not kiss your ass is pathetic. In a choice of who I trust more...the journalism collective or a couple of asshats like Trump and Musk who are exhibiting very similar tactics...I know who I'd be going with.
That said, I love what he does for tech and business. Just STFU with your bullshit and get on with it.
- utopian0
And The Stable genius Awards goes to...
Elon Musk ordered Tesla engineers to stop doing a critical brake test on Model 3s
- Given their recent braking distance issues, there must be a good, considered reason for this change. Reads like a bullshit fluff article.detritus
- "To be extremely clear, we drive *every* Model 3 on our test track to verify braking, torque, squeal, and rattle. There are no exceptions"detritus
- Sounds to me, someone with as much knowledge as the author, that Tesla might've found a way to do brake tests outside the factory.detritus
- ..thereby keeping production going regardless. Also, we have no idea what the fault rate is - if it's 0% then perhaps it's an redundant test?detritus
- It's so easy to form an article based on nothing that says way more than it ought.detritus
- Tesla’s stock tumbled by more than 7%
http://fortune.com/2…utopian - Aye, because of articles like the above, based on nothing other than a presumption. That's how stock value perception in the markets 'functions'.detritus
- I don't lend too much credence to Musk's recent paranoia about the media, but then I see sniping like this and wonder whether he has a point.detritus
- Talk about an article with zero substance...zarkonite
- ty detmonospaced
- Dull-minded, sheeple, brainwashed, fanboys...please Downvote if you are a complete wanker and Trump supporter.utopian
- shapesalad1
- I like this guy. He has a good head on his shoulders.cannonball1978
- mekk3
I really do not care about Musk at all. But I have to deal with all kinds of SEO and marketing freelancers who think they are some kind of small genius version of Musk only because they run an Amazon FBA shop and work on something with their MacBook that their grandparents wouldn't understand.
Fuck those people.
- imo, the term 'genius' should be reserverd for stem jobs. not seo lolhotroddy