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Tesla AI Day 2021 Primer (Artificial Intelligence Day)
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks Level 5 Full Autonomy for 2021
Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes that his all-electric automaker will have the ability to release a fully autonomous functionality in “some jurisdictions” next year. It would be a huge development for not only Tesla, but the future of autonomous driving as a whole.
Musk was accepting the Axel Springer Award in Germany yesterday, where he held a Q&A session with CEO Mathias Döpfner that covered a wide variety of different topics from automotive to space exploration.
During the chat, which was recorded and uploaded to YouTube, Musk was asked about Tesla’s potential to develop a fully autonomous vehicle for customers. Musk’s answer revealed that he believes Tesla can do it next year, and that the customer base could see it in their cars in 2021.
Musk’s exact answer was:
“I am extremely confident of achieving full autonomy and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year. But I think at least some jurisdictions are going to allow full self-driving next year.”
As of now, Tesla’s current FSD and Autopilot functionalities are not allowed everywhere in the world. One of the most widely recognized areas where the self-driving characteristic hasn’t gained full regulatory approval is Europe. The European Union has halted many FSD suite features from being released to drivers. More than 50 countries, including Japan, South Korea, and EU member states, agreed to common regulations that can take over some driving functions in June. However, complete self-driving functionalities are still not permitted, TechXplore reported.
Musk has even said himself that Tesla would slowly roll out FSD and Autopilot features in foreign markets, and that they would not be available until it had figured out a way to standardize traffic laws with FSD’s software. Musk once explained that it was important for Tesla to get the software absolutely right before rolling it out, most likely because any major malfunction or error in FSD’s ability to maneuver traffic could set back the company several years in terms of developing the technology.
But, this isn’t stopping some places in the United States from making great strides in terms of autonomous driving regulations. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 29 U.S. states have already enacted legislation that would allow autonomous vehicles to perform duties related to self-driving. Governors in 11 states have issued executive orders related to autonomous vehicles.
Fictitious Conspiracy Theories & False Beliefs
Tesla, Musk Blast 'Conspiracy Theories' In Short-Seller's Suit
https://www.law360.com/articles/1297701/tesla-musk-blast-conspiracy-theories-in-short-seller-s-suit
Tesla Skeptic Thinks Its Batteries Are Superior
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-skeptic-bear-battery-density-leader-ford-jaguar-porsche-51576533072
This is not a class action case, it is filed by a single individual. Please note to date 4 lawsuits have been filed against Tesla in the state of California. All 4 resulted in MOTION - DISMISSAL in favour of Tesla.
this article you mention shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how the battery
management systems works in an EV and how it being able to take readings
at different charge levels and how you charge your car daily greatly impact what the
BMS shows you as full range. You likely have much less actual range loss. I would read this thread: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/how-i-recovered-half-of-my-batterys-lost-capacity.204712/
Self-Driving Teslas Expected in Musk’s Boring Co Tunnels Next Year + Tesla Solar, TSLA Shorting
Tesla Robotaxi: TSLA at $40,000 in 2025
How Tesla Will Autopilot To $100 Trillion
All your conspiracy theories have been proven wrong.
Even Dr Belt doesn't know if his theories are correct..similar to yours. This is where you draw your inspiration from ( Dr Belt a known conspiracy theorists ) which lack any supporting evidence and has been proven wrong and misguided by the NHTSA.
From Boston745: That was in regards to Dr Belts theory about a voltage leak from the engine that is all. NHTSA could find no evidence in the designs that voltage leaked from anywhere particular. However, it left the door open if new evidence arises which proves voltage came from somewhere...like induced currents. Of course induced currents is my theory based upon these same currents potentially causing lithium ion battery fires and computer glitches.
Note Dr Belt is a conspiracy theorist and is discredited by the scientific & engineering community. Baseless assumptions with no evidence. you can read more about this quack here:
https://www.autosafety.org/dr-ronald-a-belts-sudden-acceleration-papers/
Question: Dr. Belt, if your first two papers were wrong about the cause of sudden acceleration, is it possible that your later nine papers are also wrong about the cause of sudden acceleration?
Answer: Yes, it is possible that my later nine papers are also wrong because the theory has not been tested at this time. However, it is difficult to come up with any plausible theory of sudden acceleration, so when is one is able to come up with a theory that explains so many of the observations associated with sudden acceleration as this one does while causing no diagnostic codes to be registered, one feels that the theory must be largely correct. There may be slight changes needed in how the negative voltage spike produces an incorrect voltage compensation value, like maybe the voltage spike causes a memory upset instead of just being sampled incorrectly, or maybe there are two compensation values instead of only one. But overall, I believe that the theory is better than 90% accurate. I have been unable to test the theory myself because of the expense involved with getting a suitable vehicle and with getting the test equipment needed. But I have provided detailed instructions to NHTSA and others for testing the theory in the most expeditious manner possible. I hope that someone is able to do this as soon as possible.
Tesla Robotaxi: TSLA at $40,000 in 2025
$25K Tesla Unveil this Year, Deliver Next Year
HUGE Tesla Stock Prediction! $2,000 Price Target
Elon Musk’s Electrifying new Battery CONFIRMED
EM WAVE CONSPIRACY THEORY PROVEN WRONG BY NHTSA !
Here’s a direct contradiction of your post.
A direct contradiction of your post by national investigative body.
NHTSA Investigation
NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) issued the results of its investigation today confirming that it found that the incidents were due to “pedal misapplication” — in other words: drivers pressing the wrong pedal.
They wrote in the report:
“After reviewing the available data, ODI has not identified evidence that would support opening a defect investigation into SUA in the subject vehicles. In every instance in which event data was available for review by ODI, the evidence shows that SUA crashes in the complaints cited by the petitioner have been caused by pedal misapplication. There is no evidence of any fault in the accelerator pedal assemblies, motor control systems, or brake systems that has contributed to any of the cited incidents. There is no evidence of a design factor contributing to increased likelihood of pedal misapplication. The theory provided of a potential electronic cause of SUA in the subject vehicles is based upon inaccurate assumptions about system design and log data.”
“Inaccurate assumptions” sound familiar?
TESLA GIGA FACTORY INDIA CONFIRMED !
TESLA ROBO-TAXI $40,000 PER SHARE IN 2025 !
WHAT IF TESLA BUYS GENERAL MOTORS THIS YEAR !
In a classic case of the guppy swallowing the whale, a leading wealth management analyst predicts Tesla will buy a major automaker this year
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” ? Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Unless you’ve had your wallet stuck in the sand — or somehow missed the incredible afternoon drama show that has been the stock market — you know Tesla has been making a mockery of Benjamin Graham’s long-worshipped price-to-earnings ratio. Not 12 months ago, TSLA was in free fall, bottoming out at US$70.10 last March before soaring to the US$816.04 it’s worth as I bang away today on the keyboard. No need to reach for your calculator, that’s about a 1,000 per cent increase in just 10 months. And in those 12 months, according to market analysts Zack.com, it has gone from merely overpriced to a trailing-12-months P-to-E ratio of 115.47. (For non-analysts needing a little perspective, a P-to-E ratio of 10 has historically been a “buy,” 15 a “hold,” and 20 an all-hands-on-deck, we-gotta-dump-this-shit-fast “sell.”)
In fact, Tesla is now worth more than the combined market capitalizations of the three largest legacy automakers in the world — Volkswagen, Toyota and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi — which account for somewhere in the region of 32 million auto sales each and every year. More incredible are the prophesies — most notably by Catherine Wood of ARK Invest — that TSLA shares could be worth as much as US$15,000 in just four more years of bubbling economy. That would, according to my pathetically underpowered calculator, make Tesla worth more than the entire auto and airline industries combined — as in every major automaker in the world along with Boeing and Airbus — with more than enough left over to buy, say, Manhattan.
But you probably already knew about that. And, if you’re a true Teslarati, you’ve long dismissed all that as nonsense from old fuddy-duddies still spooked by Nortel. But what if there were a way out of this tulpenmanie — remember that, for a short time in the 1630s, a single tulip bulb was worth as much as $750,000 in today’s dollars — without decimating the entire Dow Jones. What if Elon Musk really does have a Dr. Evil-like plot to take over the entire automotive world that justifies its perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophyteian pricing?
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Motor Mouth: Fearless forecasts for an unpredictable 2021
Motor Mouth: Elon Musk hits the jackpot today
Byron R. Wien, vice-chairman of the Private Wealth Solutions group at Blackstone, and Joe Zidle, the company’s chief investment strategist, think they might have sussed out Musk’s “master plan.” In a classic case of the guppy swallowing the whale, they say Tesla is going to buy a major automaker. Yup, according to Wien and Zidle’s Ten Surprises of 2021 — defined as “having a better than 50 per cent likelihood of happening” — little ol’ Tesla is going acquire a major global automobile manufacturer “in a transaction that involves a combination of cash and stock.”
Think about this for a moment and it proves absolutely brilliant. In one fell swoop, it would solve so many of Tesla’s problems — at least those centering on ridiculous valuations and the ramping up of production to satisfy those incredible projections. For instance, it would instantly solve the company’s truly usurious market cap-to-car ratio. Legendary investor — and Model 3 owner! — Jeremy Grantham noted this week that Tesla’s market capitalization “amounts to over $1.25 million per car sold each year versus $9,000 per car for GM.”
But, if Tesla was to take over any of the Big Three — Volkswagen, Toyota or Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi — spreading that US$770 billion market cap over 10 million and a bit cars, it would that figure down an admittedly still ridiculous, but perhaps survivable, 70 grand per car. Production facilities would just have to be re-imagined rather than newly constructed, and perhaps most of all, it might allow Musk to become a chief visionary officer — something he is really good at — rather than a chief executive officer, where his rather Trump-like management style causes unnecessary and oft-times distracting media attention.
So, if we pretend that Wien and Zidle’s supposition really would smooth out Tesla’s ridiculous stock valuation, the question then becomes, which among all the current auto giants is the most likely candidate for takeover? Wien and Zidle’s brief exploration didn’t explicit the automaker in question, so here’s Motor Mouth’s list of the five likeliest candidates for Muskification in 2021:
The Logical Choice
Volkswagen ID.4
Volkswagen’s all-electric ID.4. Handout / Volkswagen
This one’s easy. If you want synergy and scale in a Tesla takeover, the only choice is Volkswagen, the world’s largest automaker and also the legacy producer most committed to battery electric vehicles. The company is already devoting US$86 billion to EV development over the next five years, an amount that will help Tesla’s flagging leadership in battery technology. It also has complete dominance — even of the EV market — in Europe, where, as Motor Mouth recently reported, Tesla’s market share is plummeting.
Best of all, the transaction is relatively cheap, the European giant still stung by Dieselgate and its market cap is barely a tenth of Tesla’s. Musk could buy the world’s largest automaker lock, stock, and barrel — and barely dilute his stock. The biggest obstacle is that the State of Lower Saxony owns 11.8 per cent of VLKAF stock (and 20 per cent of its voting rights), while various unions and employees representatives control half the seats of the company’s supervisory board. That might make for a very hostile takeover indeed.
Odds for Muskification: 3 to 1; 1,000 to 1 if politicians and unionistas get their shorts in a knot.
Step Up to the General
2022 GMC Hummer EV
The reborn Hummer will use GM’s new Ultium battery tech. Handout / GMC
I know that, for many, General Motors represents everything hated about legacy automakers: a bloated bureaucracy, tired designs and hidebound thinking. But of all the traditional manufacturers, The General has the most legit history of electrification. Despite the Who Killed the Electric Car crapola, the EV1 was a legitimate attempt at electrification. Ditto Volt and Bolt. And with newfound Ultium battery development and increasing commitment to EVs — 30 new global battery-powered models by 2025, says CEO Mary Barra — it’s in complete lockstep with Musk’s “we wont’s stop until every car is electric” mantra. Making it even more attractive is that, unlike VW, the majority of GM’s outstanding shares are in the hands of institutional investors — that should be read as greedy capitalists — making any takeover far more amicable. And its massive production capacity would solve a number of Tesla woes.
Odds for Muskification: 10 to 1; 5,000 to 1 if the Teslarati, taking a cue from Trumptards, decide to storm Palo Alto for consorting with the enemy.
The Big Green
Toyota Mirai
Toyota loves fuel-cell vehicles. Elon Musk doesn’t. Wonder how they’ll get along… Handout / Toyota
What if Tesla bought Toyota? Seriously, Toyota. Imagine the leader in battery power joining forces with Toyota’s dominance of all things hybrid and PHEV. Surely the enviro-weenies would swoon, the combination “owning” pretty much everything electrified, not to mention being the leaders in ICE efficiency (Toyota’s Atkinson-cycle engines are the most efficient piston-powered units in the world). Besides, it’d a perfect marriage of Japanese reliability and American ingenuity. Who couldn’t get behind that?
Well, Akio Toyoda for one, Toyota’s CEO recently claiming that EVs are over-hyped, and that banning gasoline-fueled cars would cause Japan’s car industry to “collapse.” Toyota’s market cap — currently at US212 billion — also might make it a little too “whale-ish” for the guppy to swallow.
Odds for Muskification: 100 to 1; 10 to 1 if BEV-phobic Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda develops a sudden case of Panasonic fever.
The Long Shot
2020 Mazda MX-30 EV
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker may be one of the most fuel-efficient on the planet, but beyond the MX-30 EV, Mazda is seriously lacking in electrical nous. Handout / Mazda
Mazda needs Musk a lot more than Musk needs Mazda. Japan’s fifth-largest automaker may be one of the most fuel-efficient automakers on the planet, but it is seriously lacking in electrical nous. But, while internal combustion may be an affront to everything Tesla currently stands for, major parts of the Third World can ill afford electrification in the same 15 or 20 years that developed countries are now promising. As much as it may pain his loudly proclaimed virtuosity, if Musk really wants to be a big player in the world market, he may have to add a little ICE to his lithium cocktail. And Mazda offers the cheapest, most advanced road to internal combustion expansion. Besides, a Muskified Miata might be just the thing to get we old fogeys on board with this whole electrification thing. [You take that back! — Ed.]
Odds for Muskification: 250 to 1; 5 to 1 if Elon Musk’s super-secret crush is rotary engines.
Batten Down the Hatches, It’s DaimlerChrysler All Over Again
2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe
It’s not the worst idea — Jeep global president Christian Meunier is a fan of electrification, as evidenced by his genuine enthusiasm for the 2021 Wrangler 4xe. Handout / Jeep
Pity poor Chrysler. It’s been through so many corporate courtships even Zsa Zsa Gabor might counsel celibacy. Nonetheless, Stellantis — its latest amalgamation, which sees Peugeot S.A. marching FiatChrysler down the aisle this time — will soon be the fourth-largest automaker in the world, making it an attractive mate for someone looking for quick access to global production. There are some sticking points however. One of the few inter-company synergies, for instance, is that Chrysler, Fiat, Citroën, Dodge, Ram and Tesla (to name but a few of the major players in this potential deal) all suffer from poor reliability ratings. There’s also the fact that virtually all the players involved are experiencing a tough time in Europe, and that Chrysler’s North American cash-cow — its Ram pickups — are but a spike in gas prices away from yet another crisis.
But there are also myriad positives, most stemming from a stellar upper management team. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares is one smart and tough cookie, having survived Carlos Ghosn — which is no mean feat. Jeep global president Christian Meunier is a fan of electrification and has the nous to make change happen. And Mike Manley, recently positioned to oversee the entire company’s Americas’ operations, does not suffer fools. All have the ability and, perhaps more importantly, the character to stand up to Mr. Musk’s sometimes, uhm, wayward trajectories. Still, managing Stellantis’ myriad marques will already be such a cauldron of seething political intrigue and Machiavellian power plays that adding Mr. Musk to the mix would surely be a recipe for another DaimlerChrysler “[un]merger of equals.”
Odds for Muskification: 5,000,000 to 1 if there’s even a scintilla of sense on Tesla’s board; 2 to 1 if Musk really is Trump’s brother from another mother.
TESLA IS CURRENTLY WORTH ABOUT 140 TIMES AS MUCH PER CAR IT PRODUCES THAN GM.
I have no idea if Wien and Zidle’s prognostications have any merit, let alone which automaker Mr. Musk might target if they do prove Nostradamian. But let me leave you with one final note: according to Grantham’s figures, Tesla is currently worth about 140 times as much per car it produces than GM (and 60 times more than Toyota, the most valuable legacy automaker). To get anywhere near justifying its current market cap — let alone ARK’s phantasmagorical valuation — the company needs to sell at least 10 to 20 times as many cars as it currently produces in relatively short order. That is almost impossible organically in the short time frame available. So, as crazy as Wien and Zidle’s predictions may sound — and as silly as my options may be — buying that production makes a lot more sense than trying to build it alone.
Author’s note: Elon Musk recently revealed that, in the deepest, darkest day of Model 3 “production hell,” he tried to sell Tesla to Apple. Tim Cook, says Musk, “refused to take the meeting.” Even by conservative estimates, Tesla is now worth 10 times as much as it was back then. I wonder is Apple’s CEO is regretting his decision, especially in light of recent news that his company wants to produce its own car by 2024. Can you say, “missed opportunity?”
EMF + CONSPIRACY THEORIES !
ZERO EVIDENCE OF THIS EVER HAPPENING WITH TESLA. COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME SPAMING THIS BOARD WITH LIES NOT WELCOME.
The onus is on the one making the claims to provide the evidence. If their not able to provide evidence this means their arguments are baseless and nothing but conspiracy theories.
Just cause I can't prove " ELVIS" is not God doesn't mean he is..... is the lack of evidence proof that it can happen?
NHTSA determines sudden acceleration complaints in Tesla vehicles were due to driver error
Nothing to do with EMF Induced thermal runways conspiracies.
Tesla rechargeable batteries can not experience EMF induced thermal runaway resulting in overheating. Simply because unlike other battery manufacturers Tesla uses safer and less reactive anode (lithium titanates) and cathode (lithium iron phosphate) materials — thereby avoiding the cobalt electrodes in many lithium rechargeable cells — together with non-flammable electrolytes based on ionic liquids.
Tesla 10,000 per share in 2021
178,000 per share by 2030
Elon Musk Says Tesla Has No Competition !!
"Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day," wrote Musk.
https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/elon-musk-had-a-private-meeting-with-volkswagens-ceo-its-a-brilliant-lesson-in-emotional-intelligence.html
Model 3 is not getting crushed by VW ID3 but instead Tesla does not have the ability to produce enough cars to meet demand ! Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess asked Elon Musk to test the ID3 and offer his advice. Why would they do this if there supposedly crushing Tesla...lol I know why because Tesla has no competition. Here is a list why its game over :
Tesla does not outsource any production of its parts
Tesla autonomy level 5 is 13 years ahead of its competitors and the only one that does not use Lidar but instead cameras and A.I intelligence
Tesla owns all its dealerships, service centers and charging networks
Tesla Giga Factory and Giga Press produce more cars than conventional car factories with 50% less parts.
Tesla sells it's own insurance
Tesla will be the first automobile manufacturer to sell a $25,000 EV Car capable of Autonomous driving capabilities
Tesla is the only EV company on earth that will get free satellite internet service from its sister company SpaceX
Tesla is the only EV company that will own its own mine
Tesla is the only EV company that will be manufacturing their own batteries
Tesla is the only EV company that has a battery recycling program in place
Tesla is the only company that owns a solar renewable energy network with future cell technology to be used to power tesla cars.
Here is why Tesla Cybertruck is revolutionary and has the edge over everyone else
https://theconversation.com/love-it-or-hate-it-teslas-cybertruck-is-revolutionary-128076
Tesla has two main advantages that will likely make the Cybertruck a winner.
First, Tesla has an advanced and extensive charging network that allows the owners of its products to quickly refuel. There are currently more than 14,000 superchargers worldwide.
Second, Tesla has invested heavily in battery technology and manufacturing. Its gigafactories are expanding and using more renewable energy, including solar power, to reduce the ecological footprint of batteries. As a result, Tesla is able to scale up production and will probably be able to keep the cost of its vehicles lower than competitors.
Tesla’s Cybertruck and the growing number of offerings by other manufacturers of EVs likely represent the beginning of a larger transition away from internal combustion engines.
Tesla Is Years Ahead Of Competitors With No Signs Of Stopping
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2020/03/05/tesla-is-years-ahead-of-competitors-with-no-signs-of-stopping/?sh=63e2814e9f45
Remember despite what others says Tesla has no competition. Infact Elon Musk recently said he would be open to acquiring other Car companies like Ford , GM or VW but when pushed said it would not be a hostile take over.
The same people that said Amazon was a in bubble, Apple was in a bubble are now saying Tesla is a bubble. Tesla has already made millionaires and will be making many more in the coming years. When one resorts to name calling by calling it a Ponzi Scheme it validation for us longs that we won !
Here is why Tesla is going to 10X in price this year 2021 and reach a high of 10,000
Tesla Stock Will 10X in 2021,Why you should never sell tesla stock: Chamath Palihapitiya
Tesla To Buy GM & Ford in 2021 !
Motor Mouth: What if Tesla buys General Motors this year?
In a classic case of the guppy swallowing the whale, a leading wealth management analyst predicts Tesla will buy a major automaker this year
by DAVID BOOTH | JANUARY 8, 2021
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the International Astronautical Congress on September 29, 2017 in Adelaide, Australia. Mark Brake / Getty Images
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” ? Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Unless you’ve had your wallet stuck in the sand — or somehow missed the incredible afternoon drama show that has been the stock market — you know Tesla has been making a mockery of Benjamin Graham’s long-worshipped price-to-earnings ratio. Not 12 months ago, TSLA was in free fall, bottoming out at US$70.10 last March before soaring to the US$816.04 it’s worth as I bang away today on the keyboard. No need to reach for your calculator, that’s about a 1,000 per cent increase in just 10 months. And in those 12 months, according to market analysts Zack.com, it has gone from merely overpriced to a trailing-12-months P-to-E ratio of 115.47. (For non-analysts needing a little perspective, a P-to-E ratio of 10 has historically been a “buy,” 15 a “hold,” and 20 an all-hands-on-deck, we-gotta-dump-this-shit-fast “sell.”)
In fact, Tesla is now worth more than the combined market capitalizations of the three largest legacy automakers in the world — Volkswagen, Toyota and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi — which account for somewhere in the region of 32 million auto sales each and every year. More incredible are the prophesies — most notably by Catherine Wood of ARK Invest — that TSLA shares could be worth as much as US$15,000 in just four more years of bubbling economy. That would, according to my pathetically underpowered calculator, make Tesla worth more than the entire auto and airline industries combined — as in every major automaker in the world along with Boeing and Airbus — with more than enough left over to buy, say, Manhattan.
But you probably already knew about that. And, if you’re a true Teslarati, you’ve long dismissed all that as nonsense from old fuddy-duddies still spooked by Nortel. But what if there were a way out of this tulpenmanie — remember that, for a short time in the 1630s, a single tulip bulb was worth as much as $750,000 in today’s dollars — without decimating the entire Dow Jones. What if Elon Musk really does have a Dr. Evil-like plot to take over the entire automotive world that justifies its perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophyteian pricing?
RELATED
Motor Mouth: Fearless forecasts for an unpredictable 2021
Motor Mouth: Elon Musk hits the jackpot today
Byron R. Wien, vice-chairman of the Private Wealth Solutions group at Blackstone, and Joe Zidle, the company’s chief investment strategist, think they might have sussed out Musk’s “master plan.” In a classic case of the guppy swallowing the whale, they say Tesla is going to buy a major automaker. Yup, according to Wien and Zidle’s Ten Surprises of 2021 — defined as “having a better than 50 per cent likelihood of happening” — little ol’ Tesla is going acquire a major global automobile manufacturer “in a transaction that involves a combination of cash and stock.”
Think about this for a moment and it proves absolutely brilliant. In one fell swoop, it would solve so many of Tesla’s problems — at least those centering on ridiculous valuations and the ramping up of production to satisfy those incredible projections. For instance, it would instantly solve the company’s truly usurious market cap-to-car ratio. Legendary investor — and Model 3 owner! — Jeremy Grantham noted this week that Tesla’s market capitalization “amounts to over $1.25 million per car sold each year versus $9,000 per car for GM.”
But, if Tesla was to take over any of the Big Three — Volkswagen, Toyota or Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi — spreading that US$770 billion market cap over 10 million and a bit cars, it would that figure down an admittedly still ridiculous, but perhaps survivable, 70 grand per car. Production facilities would just have to be re-imagined rather than newly constructed, and perhaps most of all, it might allow Musk to become a chief visionary officer — something he is really good at — rather than a chief executive officer, where his rather Trump-like management style causes unnecessary and oft-times distracting media attention.
So, if we pretend that Wien and Zidle’s supposition really would smooth out Tesla’s ridiculous stock valuation, the question then becomes, which among all the current auto giants is the most likely candidate for takeover? Wien and Zidle’s brief exploration didn’t explicit the automaker in question, so here’s Motor Mouth’s list of the five likeliest candidates for Muskification in 2021:
The Logical Choice
Volkswagen ID.4
Volkswagen’s all-electric ID.4. Handout / Volkswagen
This one’s easy. If you want synergy and scale in a Tesla takeover, the only choice is Volkswagen, the world’s largest automaker and also the legacy producer most committed to battery electric vehicles. The company is already devoting US$86 billion to EV development over the next five years, an amount that will help Tesla’s flagging leadership in battery technology. It also has complete dominance — even of the EV market — in Europe, where, as Motor Mouth recently reported, Tesla’s market share is plummeting.
Best of all, the transaction is relatively cheap, the European giant still stung by Dieselgate and its market cap is barely a tenth of Tesla’s. Musk could buy the world’s largest automaker lock, stock, and barrel — and barely dilute his stock. The biggest obstacle is that the State of Lower Saxony owns 11.8 per cent of VLKAF stock (and 20 per cent of its voting rights), while various unions and employees representatives control half the seats of the company’s supervisory board. That might make for a very hostile takeover indeed.
Odds for Muskification: 3 to 1; 1,000 to 1 if politicians and unionistas get their shorts in a knot.
Step Up to the General
2022 GMC Hummer EV
The reborn Hummer will use GM’s new Ultium battery tech. Handout / GMC
I know that, for many, General Motors represents everything hated about legacy automakers: a bloated bureaucracy, tired designs and hidebound thinking. But of all the traditional manufacturers, The General has the most legit history of electrification. Despite the Who Killed the Electric Car crapola, the EV1 was a legitimate attempt at electrification. Ditto Volt and Bolt. And with newfound Ultium battery development and increasing commitment to EVs — 30 new global battery-powered models by 2025, says CEO Mary Barra — it’s in complete lockstep with Musk’s “we wont’s stop until every car is electric” mantra. Making it even more attractive is that, unlike VW, the majority of GM’s outstanding shares are in the hands of institutional investors — that should be read as greedy capitalists — making any takeover far more amicable. And its massive production capacity would solve a number of Tesla woes.
Odds for Muskification: 10 to 1; 5,000 to 1 if the Teslarati, taking a cue from Trumptards, decide to storm Palo Alto for consorting with the enemy.
The Big Green
Toyota Mirai
Toyota loves fuel-cell vehicles. Elon Musk doesn’t. Wonder how they’ll get along… Handout / Toyota
What if Tesla bought Toyota? Seriously, Toyota. Imagine the leader in battery power joining forces with Toyota’s dominance of all things hybrid and PHEV. Surely the enviro-weenies would swoon, the combination “owning” pretty much everything electrified, not to mention being the leaders in ICE efficiency (Toyota’s Atkinson-cycle engines are the most efficient piston-powered units in the world). Besides, it’d a perfect marriage of Japanese reliability and American ingenuity. Who couldn’t get behind that?
Well, Akio Toyoda for one, Toyota’s CEO recently claiming that EVs are over-hyped, and that banning gasoline-fueled cars would cause Japan’s car industry to “collapse.” Toyota’s market cap — currently at US212 billion — also might make it a little too “whale-ish” for the guppy to swallow.
Odds for Muskification: 100 to 1; 10 to 1 if BEV-phobic Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda develops a sudden case of Panasonic fever.
The Long Shot
2020 Mazda MX-30 EV
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker may be one of the most fuel-efficient on the planet, but beyond the MX-30 EV, Mazda is seriously lacking in electrical nous. Handout / Mazda
Mazda needs Musk a lot more than Musk needs Mazda. Japan’s fifth-largest automaker may be one of the most fuel-efficient automakers on the planet, but it is seriously lacking in electrical nous. But, while internal combustion may be an affront to everything Tesla currently stands for, major parts of the Third World can ill afford electrification in the same 15 or 20 years that developed countries are now promising. As much as it may pain his loudly proclaimed virtuosity, if Musk really wants to be a big player in the world market, he may have to add a little ICE to his lithium cocktail. And Mazda offers the cheapest, most advanced road to internal combustion expansion. Besides, a Muskified Miata might be just the thing to get we old fogeys on board with this whole electrification thing. [You take that back! — Ed.]
Odds for Muskification: 250 to 1; 5 to 1 if Elon Musk’s super-secret crush is rotary engines.
Batten Down the Hatches, It’s DaimlerChrysler All Over Again
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It’s not the worst idea — Jeep global president Christian Meunier is a fan of electrification, as evidenced by his genuine enthusiasm for the 2021 Wrangler 4xe. Handout / Jeep
Pity poor Chrysler. It’s been through so many corporate courtships even Zsa Zsa Gabor might counsel celibacy. Nonetheless, Stellantis — its latest amalgamation, which sees Peugeot S.A. marching FiatChrysler down the aisle this time — will soon be the fourth-largest automaker in the world, making it an attractive mate for someone looking for quick access to global production. There are some sticking points however. One of the few inter-company synergies, for instance, is that Chrysler, Fiat, Citroën, Dodge, Ram and Tesla (to name but a few of the major players in this potential deal) all suffer from poor reliability ratings. There’s also the fact that virtually all the players involved are experiencing a tough time in Europe, and that Chrysler’s North American cash-cow — its Ram pickups — are but a spike in gas prices away from yet another crisis.
But there are also myriad positives, most stemming from a stellar upper management team. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares is one smart and tough cookie, having survived Carlos Ghosn — which is no mean feat. Jeep global president Christian Meunier is a fan of electrification and has the nous to make change happen. And Mike Manley, recently positioned to oversee the entire company’s Americas’ operations, does not suffer fools. All have the ability and, perhaps more importantly, the character to stand up to Mr. Musk’s sometimes, uhm, wayward trajectories. Still, managing Stellantis’ myriad marques will already be such a cauldron of seething political intrigue and Machiavellian power plays that adding Mr. Musk to the mix would surely be a recipe for another DaimlerChrysler “[un]merger of equals.”
Odds for Muskification: 5,000,000 to 1 if there’s even a scintilla of sense on Tesla’s board; 2 to 1 if Musk really is Trump’s brother from another mother.
TESLA IS CURRENTLY WORTH ABOUT 140 TIMES AS MUCH PER CAR IT PRODUCES THAN GM.
I have no idea if Wien and Zidle’s prognostications have any merit, let alone which automaker Mr. Musk might target if they do prove Nostradamian. But let me leave you with one final note: according to Grantham’s figures, Tesla is currently worth about 140 times as much per car it produces than GM (and 60 times more than Toyota, the most valuable legacy automaker). To get anywhere near justifying its current market cap — let alone ARK’s phantasmagorical valuation — the company needs to sell at least 10 to 20 times as many cars as it currently produces in relatively short order. That is almost impossible organically in the short time frame available. So, as crazy as Wien and Zidle’s predictions may sound — and as silly as my options may be — buying that production makes a lot more sense than trying to build it alone.
Author’s note: Elon Musk recently revealed that, in the deepest, darkest day of Model 3 “production hell,” he tried to sell Tesla to Apple. Tim Cook, says Musk, “refused to take the meeting.” Even by conservative estimates, Tesla is now worth 10 times as much as it was back then. I wonder is Apple’s CEO is regretting his decision, especially in light of recent news that his company wants to produce its own car by 2024. Can you say, “missed opportunity?”
Elon Musk: Tesla Level 5 Full Self-Driving (FSD) Ready in 2021
Autopilot and full self-driving (FSD) is considered one of the hottest topics when it comes to Tesla. While other automakers are waiting for someone to develop systems that could be installed into their cars, Tesla has already made tremendous progress in developing its own technology.
FSD Beta, presented in October, has already demonstrated clear success, and is able to drive a car for a long time, even in challenging road sections, without driver intervention. In parallel with this, Tesla Autopilot has already demonstrated many times over its excellence in avoiding accidents in the most difficult situations, anticipating collisions that have not yet occurred.
Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk attended the Axel Springer event ceremony, where he received the award for excellence and innovation. He said that he assumes that, in 20 years, all cars produced will be electric vehicles with fully autonomous driving. However, Musk reckons that 70-80% of cars will be autonomous in 10 years.
Musk also said that he is confident that all Tesla vehicles will achieve full autonomy in 2021. However, there will be a long process of regulatory approvals from different countries. Although, by that time, Tesla will already be able to accumulate billions of miles/kilometers of autonomous driving, which will be difficult for regulatory authorities to argue with.
Musk said that the self-driving car drives like a careful, attentive driver who never gets tired and cannot be distracted. This is the vision of the company and its aspiration. He stressed that it is important that the car brakes only when there really is an obstacle on the road, and not when AI just thinks thinks there's one.
In the US, car accidents occur every 479,000 miles, according to NHTSA data. Meanwhile, in Q3 2020, Tesla recorded one accident for every 4.59 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. These data demonstrate Tesla Autopilot's colossal safety performance—almost 10 times safer than a human driver.
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Only Poor People Pay Tax On Tesla Stock Gains !
7 Reasons the Rich Don’t Pay Taxes
Do you know the history of taxes? There was a time that there was no tax. But gradually, it became the norm. At first, taxes were imposed on people in times of war to aid the defence. But governments fell in love with the idea and made it permanent.
Taxes are not a bad thing. It is a token given to the government to run and organize society. It becomes a bad thing when those in government have selfish interests. However, taxes can become overbearing for the people.
Some believe that governments can afford to stop taking taxes. The idea is that they get to own all the natural resources discovered in a country. And they have the capacity to develop income-generating industries. But most countries can’t stop taking taxes because of their control of monetary policy.
Taxes have also been a tool to fool naive people. When governments want to raise taxes, they always begin by saying that the taxes are for the rich. Nobody ever admits that it is the poor and working-class that will pay it. So when this “tax the rich” idea is sold to the people, they support it. But when the legislation is being drafted, the rich use their connections to include some loopholes.
A year or two after the law is passed, the government discovers that all the rich people targeted have already dodged the legislation and it is no longer bringing in money. Therefore, they extend it to regular workers. The problem is that regular workers cannot dodge it like the rich. And thus they become the perpetual taxpayers.
The rich don’t pay taxes. And the reason is that they can afford not to. Every attempt by any government to tax the rich always ends up throwing the working-class under the bus. It always does. It could only take some time.
Not paying taxes is a matter of negotiation. Do the rich need the government or the government needs the rich? The government needs the rich. The rich don’t need the government. The rich have other options as there are other countries. But a government that frustrates the rich will descend into the abyss with time.
Here are 7 reasons the rich don’t pay taxes:
1. The Rich Don’t Get Paid
Regular working-class people get paid wages, salary, income, etc. The rich don’t get paid anything like that. Whenever you hear things like income taxes, just know that it is not touching the rich.
Check what the salary of Warren Buffet is. Then Check the salary of Larry Ellison. Then check that of Jeff Bezos. They run public companies, so their salary information is public. Just check Google. Can you see it?
Just think about that. Larry’s basic salary is $1. How can that be taxed? All regular people have is their income. The rich can afford to make their salary as low as they want to because they really don’t need it. So, income tax never gets to the rich. Their income is just a buffer. It is always a modest amount.
Rich people in the spotlight often have some sort of amount as income just so that they can pay taxes (to attract goodwill). But the unknown ones are not under such pressure. Many of them have zero as salary.
So, how do they do it? You’ll know soon.
2. The Rich are Encouraged to Keep their Money in the System
When you have $1 billion dollars, the government is more particular about making you keep your $1 billion in the economy than to take some $250 million from you. There are less than 3,000 billionaires in the world. They can move their money into any system they want to.
If the rich move their money, the economy will feel it. And the government will be left to deal with the situation that grows from it. So, instead of the government taking a small percentage off the wealth of the rich, they encourage then to keep the 100% in the system. And this means to incentivize them to make that decision. And that means a tax loophole.
It is a simple system: you keep 100% of your money in the system, we take nothing. And the rich happily oblige to this.
3. The Rich Takes Some Pressure Off the Government
There are activities that rich people get involved in for the good of the society that is supposed to be the work of the government. However, because the government is often overwhelmed with a lot of things, a lot of things get no attention. A rich person who attends to such matters deserves some reward.
In many countries, the rich can take up social responsibility and because of that skip taxes. In some cases, their taxes are reduced. In other cases, they can completely avoid paying taxes. This depends on the magnitude of social responsibility they have taken up.
This is also a win-win for the rich. In many cases, the amount they spend on these social responsibilities is as much as the taxes they would have paid. But they have control over the money when they use it directly instead of handing it to the government. Also, social responsibility gives them goodwill among the people making their next ambitious project easily accepted by society.
The rich can also kill two birds with one stone as their social responsibility can be tied to their business interest (by a collateral impact). An example is a rich man in an African country who runs a business that heavily relies on road transport deciding to fix the roads on behalf of the government. And yes, he got a tax reduction based on that.
4. The Rich Pay the Middle-class
Those that really feel the impact of taxes are middle-class workers. And this is also leverage for the rich. The incomes the middle-class have is provided by the rich. The rich have the platforms, companies, corporations that provide the middle-class with income. This means that if the government hurts the rich, they will probably have no middle-class to fall back on.
In most developed countries, a larger percentage of taxes are paid by companies and corporations. And these are institutions owned by the rich. And those are the ones that pay the middle-class. In fact, they help the government in collecting taxes from the middle-class.
The rich are basically partners with the government concerning the collection of taxes. If a middle-class worker tries to evade taxes, the company gives all the access to the government to make them get such a worker.
It is a mutually beneficial relationship. It is only fair that the government cut the rich some slack.
5. The Rich have Options
Whenever you hear people say that they are going to make the rich pay more taxes, just know that you are talking to a novice in the game. First, you need to understand that the rich have no allegiance to any country. When you have hundreds of millions of dollars, virtually every country is opened to you as long as you are not a criminal.
If a country says they are going to frustrate the rich in their country, the rich will simply move their money elsewhere. This is why there are Swiss banks and places like the Cayman Islands. After all, the money belongs to them and not the government.
The rich have options. They can put their money anywhere they want to. Countries have to show a compelling reason for the rich to keep their money with them. Yes, it is not so easy to take money out of a country especially when a lot of investment has been made in that country. But if it comes to that point, the rich will still pull it off.
And if you say the government should make a rule that the rich cannot move their money from one country to another, that is the beginning of a totalitarian regime. It is infringing on freedom. Hence, before that law gets passed, the money will start to move out in droves. Hence, the government can only make deals with the rich to keep their money in the system.
In some cases, the investment the rich have is so much that to move it is a big headache. That makes them do the next point.
6. The Rich Finance Political Candidates
To ensure that their interests are protected, the rich finance political candidates. Not that they bribe them with money to support their views. Instead, they look for people who naturally support their views and finance them as much as they can.
There have been several cases in history where the rich overturn political elections. This is especially when there is a candidate threatening to destroy the business they’ve spent their entire life building. They will fight with as much money as they can muster. And in many cases, they eventually have their way.
So, by supporting politicians that understand and support their interests, the rich avoid being targeted by the government. But sometimes, the government grows to have its own establishment that is more dangerous than the rich. The establishment is not the rich, instead, they are those who feed on the government. They are not business owners or business leaders like the rich. And they sometimes maneuver the people to fight the rich.
7. The Rich are not Individuals
The rich are not recognized by the tax system as individuals. This is why they have no income. And this is why they pay zero taxes. How do they do it?
This is a simplified explanation to make you understand. If a rich man has a company that generates revenue, he will not register himself as an employee of that company like everybody else. Every convenience of his will be part of company expenses. He positions himself to be an asset to the company. So, when the company is taxed, that is all the taxes he will pay. He is not an individual, he is an asset of the company.
Most taxes are taken from the company will be on the profits. And the profit is revenue minus expenses. Since the rich already enjoy all they want from life out of the company expenses, the tax on their profit will only affect the future of their business and not their own lifestyle. And of course, the government wants their companies to keep prospering.
There are taxes that are paid before profit is calculated. But the major taxes are after profits. And the living expenses of the rich is already deducted from the revenue before the profit is calculated.
This is considered fair because the rich are indeed a living asset to their companies. They are not individuals.
These are some of the ideas and fundamentals behind the rich not paying taxes. You could get angry about it (and that won’t change anything). Or you can take some bits from it and use it to make your life easier.
The specific rule of each tax loophole varies depending on the country. Speak to a certified tax attorney before making any move of your own.
I hope you have learned something.
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Tesla TSLA Is a Growth Story That’s Just Beginning & Some Long Term Retail Investors Are Already Becoming Millionaires
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is a success story, but not only for the company itself but also for its investors. An inconspicuous startup with a daring idea, believed in by hundreds, thousands, and then millions of people, brought them colossal profits, while short sellers of TSLA shares lost tens of billions of dollars. Over the past year and a half, they have lost more than $43 billion in their short positions, according to S3 Partners.
Tesla's retail investors have believed in the company's mission, and that it will reach it by producing great products that are capturing the hearts of millions. In the Tesla community, you can hear thousands of stories about how people became rich by owning shares of the company. The overwhelming majority of them constantly buy shares of the company, because they believe in the potential of Tesla and its brilliant leader, Elon Musk.
Brandon Smith's story has become popular with recent coverage in Bloomberg. The first time he bought Tesla shares was in 2017, and since then, he constantly bought them. Brandon is now a millionaire, fueled by a recent rally when the company's shares are up 730% YTD.
Tesla is the only public company that has not just accepted retail investors but respects them. Tesla CEO Elon Musk regularly communicates with the owners of the company's products, who very often turn out to be Tesla's investors. At the annual Investor Day and Battery Day, he allows investors to ask questions, the answers to which help them better understand the company and its future direction.
Besides Brandon, there are many other retail investors who have become millionaires thanks to their faith in Tesla. Jason DeBolt tweeted a post in which he attached a screenshot showing the 8-figure sum he earned thanks to Tesla. Jumping into this conversation, we can find a few other screenshots in which we see colossal amounts of income.
The Bloomberg article reminds us that Musk said that he believed retail investors had a deeper and more accurate understanding of the company than many institutional investors and analysts. In fact, this is the case.
Most analysts are too limited in their assessment of Tesla, considering it only as an automaker. At the same time, retail investors are constantly monitoring what Musk is saying and doing and the company's roadmap. This gives them a glimpse of Tesla's direction, and what's coming down the pike for the company, as well as of the enormous revenue opportunity now for investors and far into the future.
Here’s Why Tesla (TSLA) Stock Could be ‘Undervalued’ in Today’s Market
Here’s Why Tesla (TSLA) Stock Could be ‘Undervalued’ in Today’s Market
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Worm Capital recently released its Q3 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. Year-to-date through Q3 2020, the long/short equity strategy fund returned 171.64%, and the long-only strategy fund returned 125.43%, net of fees. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 Index returned 5.58% over the same period. You should check out Worm Capital's top 5 stock picks for investors to buy right now, which could be the biggest winners this year.
In the said letter, Worm Capital highlighted a few stocks and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) is one of them. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) is an electric car company. Year-to-date, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock gained 451.4% and on October 14th it had a closing price of $461.30. Here is what Worm Capital said:
"A good example of riding our winners this year is Tesla, which we have studied down to the cellchemistry level since 2015. In August, for instance, the bid for Tesla increased some 70%. Was this increase in bid itself a reason to sell our ownership, or even to trim? No. Tesla continues to be dramatically undervalued relative to its long-term, multi-year intrinsic value, in our view. As I have discussed in previous letters, I believe Tesla is perhaps the single best investment opportunity in the market today: It is a true disruptor competing in vast end markets (transportation, trucking, energy storage) that are each worth trillions of dollars of potential market cap.
By 2025, I expect Tesla to be trading at multiples of where it’s currently priced today. Of course, month-to-month or even quarter-to-quarter we may see the prices bounce around, but we don’t attempt to time the market. As a rule, industry juggernauts in their early stages tend to be more volatile. That’s why we think in terms of years and not days: It gives us the flexibility of opportunity to make multiples on our invested capital."
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Last week, we published an article revealing that Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) missed Q3 2020 deliveries guidance.
In Q2 2020, the number of bullish hedge fund positions on Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock increased by about 3% from the previous quarter (see the chart here), so a number of other hedge fund managers seem to agree with Tesla's growth potential. Our calculations showed that Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) isn't ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
The top 10 stocks among hedge funds returned 185% since the end of 2014 and outperformed the S&P 500 Index ETFs by more than 109 percentage points. We know it sounds unbelievable. You have been dismissing our articles about top hedge fund stocks mostly because you were fed biased information by other media outlets about hedge funds' poor performance. You could have doubled the size of your nest egg by investing in the top hedge fund stocks instead of dumb S&P 500 ETFs. Below you can watch our video about the top 5 hedge fund stocks right now. All of these stocks had positive returns in 2020.
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Fighting Tesla’s rally is ‘like fighting the Fed,’ trader says after S&P 500 inclusion
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/17/fighting-tesla-is-like-fighting-the-fed-trader-says-after-sp-add.html
Tesla shares are taking off.
The electric-auto maker’s stock closed more than 8% higher at $441.61 a share on Tuesday following S&P Dow Jones Indices’ announcement that the cult stock would be added to the S&P 500 index.
At a $411.5 billion market cap and a 111-times forward price-to-earnings multiple, Tesla would be larger than 97% of the index’s components and one of its most expensive large-cap stocks.
It would also be one of the most volatile — Tesla’s average daily stock move is far higher than that of the S&P’s 10 biggest companies, a CNBC analysis found.
Nevertheless, betting against Tesla may not be in investors’ best interests, TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday.
“This is sort of a hero’s story,” he said, pointing to the stock’s consolidation after the May 30 SpaceX launch. “The same kind of triangle pattern may be happening here on the back of a successful launch.”
Another major driver has been Tesla’s sale of environmental regulatory credits to traditional automakers, an incentive program that has been a steady revenue stream for the company, raking in $428 million in the second quarter and $397 million in the third.
“They’re selling these credits to the traditional gas-guzzlers,” Gordon said. “I kind of view it ... like fighting the Fed. It’s like saying the stock market rally isn’t going to continue because the Fed’s behind it. You’re sort of fighting the same force that won’t be defeated. So, I like it. I’m long. I’ll continue to stay long.”
On the other side of the trade was Mark Tepper, president and CEO of Strategic Wealth Partners, who admitted his had been the wrong side for quite a while.
“For this company, fundamentals just don’t matter at all,” he said in the same “Trading Nation” interview. “We are a ‘growth at a reasonable price’ firm, and the issue with Tesla, in my opinion, is there’s nothing reasonable about the valuation.”
“Now, that doesn’t mean that the stock can’t go higher,” Tepper said. “That doesn’t mean the stock won’t go higher. It just doesn’t fit our strategy.”
He warned that profits from the regulatory credits could “dwindle over time” as legacy automakers roll out their own electric vehicles in earnest, adding that Tesla is “still losing money if you’re just looking at vehicle sales.”
“It’s trading at 10 times [enterprise value] to sales and that’s crazy expensive for a software company,” Tepper said. “Ford and GM are at way less than 1 times. This is still an automaker at the end of the day. It’s a very capital-intensive business, and I just think it’s very expensive right here.”
Tesla shares have climbed a stunning 428% year to date. The company’s price-to-earnings multiple was 875 as of Tuesday’s close.
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Elon Musk says Tesla's Full Self-Driving subscription arrives in early 2021
Tesla is narrowing the time frame for the Full Self-Driving subscription rollout. Elon Musk told Twitter followers that the pay-per-month package is now due to arrive “early next year.” In theory, you could add the autonomous (currently semi-autonomous) features without a steep up-front cost in a matter of months.
You might not want to plan your schedule around that timetable. Tesla previously hoped to offer a Full Self-Driving subscription by the end of 2020, and that’s clearly not happening.
Whenever the monthly plan arrives, it could be key to boosting adoption. If you lease your Tesla, you might not have to pay as much to use Full Self-Driving for the useful life of your EV. It could also give you an opportunity to try the features as long as you like without committing to a full purchase. It’s safe to say the usual $10,000 price (as of this writing) is daunting if you’re not completely sold on the technology.
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Elon Musk Predicts Tesla Will Manufacture 20 Million Cars a Year by 2030
The number, 50 times the current output, would rely on "consistently excellent execution."
Tesla will "probably" produce 20 million electric vehicles a year before 2030, the company's CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter.
Musk's comment was in response to another post highlighting his previous assertion that the electric vehicle market would produce more than 30 million new vehicles annually within the same time frame.
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'Consistently excellent execution'
In his tweet, Musk did pose one caveat: reaching a 20 million electric vehicle a year production capacity would require "consistently excellent execution."
As Business Insider points out, that figure is more than 50 times the 365,000 electric vehicles Tesla made in 2019. The company sold 367,500 vehicles in the same year, which was a 50 percent increase over the previous year.
In the quarter finishing in December 2019, Tesla also achieved record production of almost 105,000 vehicles.
Musk's predictions come amidst plans from governments worldwide to boost electric vehicle uptake and to increase charging infrastructures. The Tesla CEO also said that his prediction could come true in five years instead of in seven, though that was "possible, but unlikely."
A rallying call to Tesla employees
As Business Insider reports, Elon Musk emailed a rallying call to all of the electric vehicle company's staff last week explaining that they were on course to post a record quarter for the three months to September.
Tesla's sales were predictably hit by the pandemic as they dropped 15% in the first half of 2020 compared to the second half of 2019. The company will have to increase its sales by more than 20,000 over the previous quarter in order to set a new record.
Tesla's much-hyped "Battery Day" also took place last week. At the event, Elon Musk unveiled battery improvements that will make manufacturing cheaper and will also provide more power. A new, fully autonomous, cheaper Tesla car priced at $25,000 was also unveiled at the show.
Elon Musk: Tesla Will Have Level 5 Self-Driving Cars This Year !
Tesla will have essentially fully autonomous self-driving vehicles this year, CEO Elon Musk said in a video recorded for a Chinese AI conference. And it can be achieved with the existing technology inside Teslas shipping today.
“I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year,” he said. “I think there are no fundamental challenges remaining for level five autonomy.”
There are many small problems, Musk acknowledged, and there’s the challenge of not just solving them but putting the whole system together. And even when almost complete, there could be challenges.
“You’re able to handle the vast majority of situations,” he told the World AI Conference in Shanghai. “But then there will be something very odd.”
Level zero self-driving is complete human control. Level five is completely autonomous is any situation: no human driver is required. Currently shipping systems are typically thought to be level two or three. Level four is self-driving, but generally only in select conditions and on certain roads.
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Of course, having level five autonomy in the lab is not the same as delivering it to customers. And there’s the whole matter of regulatory approval as well. So Musk’s declaration that Tesla has is extremely close to solving full autonomy and self-driving for cars should not necessarily be taken as a commitment to delivering that capability to customers in 2020.
However, as I’ve argued in the past, Tesla is the car maker most capable of both quickly learning from an incomparable amount of data and rapidly releasing those learnings to its customers. The company’s self-driving technology is the best currently shipping in the world, and improving at a faster rate than any other automotive manufacturer. (Friends of mine have used the company’s Autopilot technology for tens of thousands of miles. One let his Tesla drive him from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, using a fruit wedged in the steering wheel to simulate a human touch.)
While not perfect — and while Musk has probably been too aggressive in promoting it — Tesla’s Autopilot technology is simply learning faster from more miles driven than any other competitor.
Those real-world situations that its millions of cars face every day are critical, Musk says.
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“You need a kind of a real-world situation,” Musk said. “Nothing is more complex and weird than the real world. Any simulation we create is necessarily a subset of the complexity of the real world.”
Musk has said that Autopilot technology was basically the “entire expense structure” at Tesla, highlighting that it’s a core driver of Tesla’s value proposition. That’s why the company charges thousands of dollars for Autopilot technology — and has since 2016 — that cannot yet be fully used by customers.
But customers of Teslas today won’t need technology upgrades to use full autonomy when it ships, Musk said.
“I’m absolutely confident that this can be accomplished with the hardware that is in the Tesla today,” he told attendees. “And simply by making software improvements we can achieve level five autonomy.”
Tesla could be worth $6 trillion in four years if it can land autonomous driving
Tesla’s share price surge over the past few days, and the past year, has stunned the financial markets and the automotive industry.
But some analysts believe that we’ve seen nothing yet, and if Tesla can land its “full self driving” technology, and lead the switch to autonomous vehicles, the stock could be worth up to $A6 trillion by 2024.
The stock’s recent gyrations have been attributed mostly to the actions of short-sellers trying to cover their positions. But to focus on that only ignores the optimism and enthusiasm for Tesla products, and its prime position in what now seems to be the inevitable, and rapid, transition to electric vehicles.
As we have reported, the recent surge has attracted some big forecasts from major investors and analysts. Investor Ron Baron predicts the company could draw in revenues of more than $US1 trillion,and Ark Invest predicts the shares – currently around $US720 – could jump another ten-fold to around $US7,000 within five years.
But there is more to that analysis. The $US7,000 prediction is just the Ark Invest “base case”.
Its “bull case” puts the stock at $US15,000 a share, but it actually sees a potential share price of $US22,000 by 2024 if Tesla can deliver autonomous driving at a fraction of the current cost per mile of the likes of Uber and Lyft.
That translates into a market capitalisation of $US4 trillion, or $A6 trillion, compared to just $US131 billion at the close of trade on Wednesday in the US.
Ark Invest’s reasoning is published in a blog on its website. It makes fascinating reading and gives some insight into why so many big companies, Google’s Waymo, GM’s Cruise, and the Mike Cannon-Brookes backed Zoox included – are spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to land autonomous driving technology
That is not as easy task, and it should be noted that even Ark Invest is not convinced that Tesla can get it right, or win that race. In fact, it only gives it a 30 per cent chance. But it says if Tesla does get it right, and can launch an autonomous taxi services (what Elon Musk calls robo-taxis) then the value add could be huge.
Tesla: Demand for Powerwall, Megapack continues to outstrip supply
Tesla said that it more than doubled production volumes of grid-scale energy storage solution Megapack in the third quarter of 2020 as the company continues to ramp up production to “match unprecedented demand across the globe”.
In reporting its financial results for Q3 2020, Tesla noted a significant uptick in energy storage installations, which reached 759MWh during the quarter. This was up 81% sequentially and 59% year-on-year, with Tesla indicating it had more demand than supply for energy storage throughout 2021. Coupled with a doubling of solar energy installs quarter-on-quarter, the company’s total energy generation and storage revenue for Q3 2020 stood at US$579 million, up 44% year-on-year.
In a quarterly earnings call with Tesla leadership, company global head of commercial energy RJ Johnson said it had been a strong quarter for the Energy Business division with energy storage and solar poised for strong growth.
Johnson said Megapack “is going to be a large growth segment for the business,” with deployments expected to continue expanding rapidly. There is more demand than supply booked for 2021 and production will continue to ramp to match this “unprecedented demand across the globe through 2023 and beyond”.
Tesla’s order book is “rapidly filling up through 2023 in a multiple gigawatt-hour scale,” Johnson said, and large-scale solar-plus-storage is more cost-effective than traditional fossil fuel generation in “many locations across the globe”. As costs continue to decline, existing and new fossil fuel generation will be further displaced.
Tesla customers are also able to follow this trend with standalone energy storage projects too, according to the head of commercial energy. Johnson talked up how Tesla’s market optimisation software platform AutoBidder is being used for its customers to “outperform the market” with “advanced real-time bidding strategies”.
In the residential segment too, RJ Johnson said, customers are increasingly seeking reliability and backup power in their home generation, describing the backlog for Powerwall orders as “very large”. Tesla continues to invest to increase production capacity to fulfil customers’ orders, Johnson said.
In a Q&A session with analysts that followed a presentation, Phillippe Houchois, industrial goods analyst with investment bank Jefferies asked executives to share their views on where the stationary storage business “is probably going” and for clarity on the business model Tesla is using for that segment.
Houchois said that in Australia, the successful use of Tesla battery storage systems to help stabilise the grid suggested that, “given the savings that are achieved, your hardware could have been sold at a higher price”.
CEO Elon Musk said the analyst was “probably right about that,” while RJ Johnson explained that the use of aggregated behind-the-meter systems in Australia to provide services back to the grid “effectively reduces the price to the customer and reduces the prices for the grid operator”.
This trend is likely to continue to spread across the globe from early adopter markets such as Australia, Johnson said, while Drew Baglino, Tesla senior VP for powertrain and energy engineering clarified that energy storage systems installed alongside renewable energy, such as the 150MW Hornsdale Power Reserve project in South Australia can continue to serve their primary purpose as power plants while also helping to balance the grid.
Late last month Tesla hosted its Battery Day where it detailed plans to reduce manufacturing costs for energy storage through various means. It expects the changes to be transformational for Tesla’s energy business as a whole, and CEO Elon Musk continues to back the division to be just as big, if not larger than its automotive arm in the future.
Additional reporting by Liam Stoker. Visit PV Tech to read Liam's coverage of Tesla's financial results from a solar energy perspective.
Transcription of Tesla earnings call by The Motley Fool.
Elon Musk predicts Tesla energy could be ‘bigger’ than its EV business
Tesla CEO Elon Musk forecast that the company’s energy business will eventually be the same size as — or even bigger than — its automotive sector, the latest sign that the company plans to put more time and resources to scaling up its solar and storage products.
“It could be bigger, but it will certainly be of a similar magnitude,” Musk said during an earnings call Wednesday. The company surprised Wall Street by reporting a return to profitability in the third quarter.
The bulk of Tesla’s revenue is generated from sales of its Model S, Model X and Model 3 electric vehicles. In the third quarter, automotive revenues were $5.35 billion. The company doesn’t break out revenue generated from solar, energy storage or other products and services. However, the total revenue in the third quarter was $6.3 billion, which gives some indication of the size of automotive compared to its other businesses.
Tesla’s energy and solar businesses languished for nearly two years as attention and resources were directed to the Model 3. That diversion of resources included redirecting to the car battery cell production lines meant for its home Powerwall and commercial Powerpack energy storage products because the company didn’t have enough cells.
“We had to do it because if we didn’t solve the Model 3, Tesla wouldn’t survived,” he said. “So, unfortunately that shorted other parts of the company.”
Now, the company is committed to scaling up energy storage and solar. Kunal Girotra, who initially joined Tesla in 2015 as a senior product manager for Powerwall, was promoted to senior director of the company’s energy operations.
In the third quarter, Tesla deployed 43 megawatts of solar, a 48% increase from the previous quarter. Solar installations are still 54% lower than the same period last year.
Energy storage deployments have continued to grow, reaching an all-time high of 477 MWh in the third quarter, according to earnings posted Wednesday.
Part of this new effort includes its solar roof tile product, which was originally unveiled in 2016. Musk said that a new, third iteration of its solar roof tile will debut Thursday afternoon.
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Why Tesla is Not a Car Company and What You Can Learn From Elon Musk
TWEET THIS
if you truly want to understand a company’s direction and build an investment strategy that aligns with it, then you’ll want to connect the company’s ‘trade’ to the value it delivers to its customers.
if you had invested 1 dollar in Tesla when it went public in 2010, your investment would now be worth 11 times that.
When I was in business school, I learned that most companies were often not in the “business” they appeared to be. It is indeed comfortable to categorize a company’s business by its industry: transportation, financial services, manufacturing...etc.
But, if you truly want to understand a company’s direction and build an investment strategy that aligns with it, then you’ll want to connect the company’s ‘trade’ to the value it delivers to its customers.
You might have invested in Uber (NYSE: UBER) or Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) recently. Would you have been better off if you had bought some Tesla stock (NASDAQ: TSLA) instead?
You might argue these companies are not in the same industry: Uber and Lyft don’t own cars, they compete with taxi cabs. Tesla is a car manufacturer. It competes with the likes of Ford, Volvo...etc.
Or do they?!
Why is Uber’s momentum not Lyfting your spirits...yet
It is too early to tell if Uber, Lyft or similar ride-hailing companies will become investment successes…?
Lyft has had nothing but a bumpy ride since its April IPO: as of this writing, the company has lost close to 20% of its value and, this past Friday, it got sued by investors who claimed that the company misled them.
Uber, which was hailed “one of the biggest technology IPOs ever”, went public last week and lost 16% of its value within days. Dara Khosrowshahi, the company’s CEO, sent employees a memo to remind them that “sentiment does not change overnight” and that the company will be judged long-term for its performance, rather than its start.
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There is a lot to say about Khosrowshahi’s statement. The industry is going through a massive transformation and a short-term market view is not a good way to assess the future of an industry.
Case in point: if you had invested 1 dollar in Tesla when it went public in 2010, your investment would now be worth 11 times that.
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Rewriting The Rules of The Road
Back in early 2015, I wrote in this very column about the end of driving. I argued then that driving would evolve “from an art mechanically operated by humans, to a science programmed by machine learning algorithms”
I explained that it was a good thing. For the first time in the history of the automobile, we have a chance at making individual transportation more reliable, more convenient and more safe (if you’re not convinced about safety, listen to Chris Urmson’s TED talk)
Many of those who contacted me were skeptical of the reality of this trend or its timing. Well, time for the skeptics to reconsider!
As Uber and Lyft went public on the promise of delivering more convenient and personal transportation to all of us, here came Tesla’s emblematic CEO, Elon Musk, to announce how his company would introduce “Robo-Taxis” by 2021...
Listen to his short speech here. It’s well worth it. Why? Because it’s a great showcase of the irrelevance of the term “industry” when categorizing a company’s playing field.
When Tesla went public almost 10 years ago now, many of us thought of it as a car manufacturer with a “twist”. Tesla’s approach then appeared to be driven by its belief in a high-end all-electric vehicle which challenged the idea that “driving electric” meant driving an uglier and inferior car.
As Tesla matured and developed its charging network, we saw in Tesla a utility player who had to build strong batteries and an electric charging network to support its growing number of drivers and fans. Many asked at the time: did Tesla have to go into the power business because it was its ultimate goal, or did the company do so because it was the only way to support its growth?
It turns out that none of this debate was relevant. Tesla is a software company. And it believes that software can unlock new opportunities in the “end of driving” business. When you listen to Elon’s speech, you’ll get a view into his brilliant thinking.
He exposes the issue with how we evaluate industries in the age of big data and analytics: “we are used to extrapolating on a linear basis” but “the software is getting better at an exponential rate”.
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So, while it’s hard for us to imagine that a car manufacturer like Tesla could be competing with companies that don’t manufacture cars like Uber and Lyft, it become easier to understand their similarities in trying to bring the same value to customers: convenient, reliable and safer transportation.
When looking at investing in disrupting companies, I invite you to think about the above examples and broaden your views beyond industries. Think about customers’ problems first and work backwards to the way those problems are being resolved.
Tesla, just like Uber and Lyft, is in the business of “Ending Driving As We Know It” business. And that’s a very good thing.
Tesla extends record winning streak after Evercore capitulates
Tesla Inc. rose for an 11th day Friday, its longest winning streak, after Evercore ISI removed a sell rating on the stock for the first time in a year.
Shares rose as much as 8.4 per cent to a fresh record after analyst Chris McNally upgraded the stock to the equivalent of a hold, telling clients in a note that “whether we call it valuation confusion or valuation rotation, we have been on the considerably wrong side of Tesla for over a year now.” That came a day after RBC Capital Markets’ Joseph Spak said he got the stock “completely wrong.”
McNally raised his price target on Tesla to US$650 from US$225, which is still well below the US$880 range it hit on Friday.
He said investors view Tesla as two separate technology companies -- one that’s a market leader in electric vehicles and another that has several potential businesses, from full self-driving cars to a battery and powertrain developer. While one part of the Elon Musk-led company’s value comes from the revenue it generates, McNally said there are two other components that are more market driven and are a “bet on an uncertain future and a bet on Elon himself.”
The market is currently ascribing a US$100 billion value to Tesla’s self-driving initiatives, and about US$80 billion to the potential of it becoming a battery and powertrain supplier, he said, with about US$25 billion to US$75 billion to a possible energy-storage business that some think could become larger than the car business.
The electric-vehicle maker’s stock has been on a relentless surge over the past year, recording an incredible 743 per cent gain in 2020 and a further 24 per cent in the first few trading days of the new year. Its market valuation, now standing at US$829 billion, only lags behind a handful of technology behemoths on the S&P 500 Index -- Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc.
And while the rally in the stock may have been a hard one to predict, Tesla has also had a good year operationally. The company reported a fifth straight quarter of profit in October, laid out plans to halve battery costs over the next three years and started delivering cars made in its factory in China.
Investor enthusiasm for the stock also got a big boost as analysts and market watchers started predicting its addition to the S&P 500 Index around mid-2020.
The stock’s gravity-defying rise has made Musk the richest person in the world earlier this week, surpassing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and also turned the limelight to Ark Investment Management, a shareholder in the stock and one of the most vocal and ardent Tesla bulls. Musk holds an 18 per cent stake in the company, and Ark has 0.36 per cent.
Shares of other electric-vehicle companies also jumped Friday, after Hyundai said it has been contacted by a number of potential partners for the development of autonomous EVs.
Elon Mask, Tesla Alien Technology, Tesla’s Unique Business Model — Top CleanTechnica Stories in 2020
It may feel like 2020 just grew a tumor, but we are indeed in a new year. That means it’s time to look back and reflect on the big stories of 2020. Well, the big cleantech stories … sort of. Admittedly, CleanTechnica stretched a bit beyond cleantech several times in 2020, and that was reflected in some of the top 20 articles of 2020. Have a scroll below to see them all.
In addition to the top 20 stories of 2020, below that list are the top 20 stories of December and the top 20 stories of the past week. Enjoy!
Top 20 CleanTechnica Stories in 2020
Elon Musk: Should Have 1000 Ventilators Next Week, + 250,000 N95 Masks For Hospitals Tomorrow — CleanTechnica Exclusive
Elon Musk: “Alien Technology” Is Coming
Tesla Introduced A Business Model The World Has Not Seen Before
Australian Police Pulled Over A Tesla — Watch What Happened Next
17 Things A Tesla Model Y Owner Learned In 12 Hours
10 Worst Things About Owning A Tesla Model 3
The 2020 Chevy Bolt — GM Changes The Game, Again
Tesla Model X With 409,000 Miles — What Went Wrong? Not Much
Why Norway Is “Not Buying Teslas Anymore”
Is It True That A Tesla Creates More Pollution Than A Conventional Car? No!
This Stunning Chart Shows Why Battery Electric Vehicles Win
The Electric Car Cost Tipping Point
GM EVs May Someday Have Million-Mile Batteries & 600 Mile Ranges
The Copenhagen Wheel — An Honest Follow-Up
Michigan’s New House Bill 6233 Wants To Ban EV Automakers From Doing Business
Transition One Will Convert Your Old Gasmobile To Electric Power In About 4 Hours
How Does The Tesla Solar Roof Stack Up To A Traditional Solar System After 6 Months?
Tesla Model Y Market Explosion Going So Differently From Tesla Model 3 Explosion
Feedback On Tesla Ventilators From A Nurse
Tesla’s Latest Moves In Solar Indicates It Is Either Crazy Or Has Made A Breakthrough
Top 20 CleanTechnica Stories in December
Honda Has Been Making Boneheaded Moves Lately
My 2018 Nissan LEAF Is Falling Apart At 66,000 Miles
Honda Fumbles The Ball With The 2022 Acura MDX
Real Friends Interrupt You When You Are Making A Mistake
21 Best E-Bikes & Electric Motorcycles You Can Buy in 2021
Department of Energy Puts $33 Million More into Green Hydrogen
Myth vs. Reality On Texas As Elon Musk & Tesla “Move” There
Record Electric Vehicle Sales in China
Solid State Batteries — They’re Everywhere! They’re Everywhere!
Tesla Model Y May Account For ~70% Of US Tesla Sales
Aptera Is Getting A Lot of Orders For Its “Never Charge” EV
Volkswagen ID.4 vs. Hyundai Tucson — 5 Year Cost of Ownership
Aptera Announces First “Never Charge” Electric Vehicle
Nuclear Fusion — Coming Soon To An Electrical Grid Near You?
Re-powering — It’s The New, New Thing For Existing Wind Farms
Largest Renewable Energy Project In World Will Be 30 Gigawatt Solar–Wind Project In India
New Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Fast Chargers Announced
US Offshore Wind Turbine Switcheroo Outsmarts The Smarty Pants
Possible That Tesla Would Acquire A Legacy Automaker
US Energy Dept. Hearts New Silicon EV Batteries
Top 20 CleanTechnica Stories of Past Week (or So)
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21 Best E-Bikes & Electric Motorcycles You Can Buy in 2021
Order For 2500 Nikola Electric Garbage Trucks Cancelled
Op-Ed: The New Harley-Davidson Serial 1 E-Bike Is Bullsh*t
Panasonic About To Start Producing Tesla’s 4680 Battery Cells
Cobalt Banished From New Lithium-Ion Electric Vehicle Batteries
A Sustainable Alternative To Portable Power Generators
499,550 Tesla Sales In 2020 (CleanTechnica Charts)
U.S. Renewable Energy Consumption Surpasses Coal For 1st Time In Over 130 Years
CATL & LG Chem Are World’s Biggest EV Battery Producers
Georgia Sends Renewable Energy Love Letter To Rust Belt State
France Hits Record 19.2% EV Share In December — Up Almost 6× Year On Year
What Nissan Should Have Done With The 2021 LEAF
DJI: 500 People Saved by Small Drones So Far
Comparison: 2021 Tesla Model Y vs. 2021 Range Rover
CityHawk eVTOL Gets Off The Ground Following Initial Orders
Scotland Banks On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trains For Zero Emission Railway By 2035
1st Look At The Made-In-China Tesla Model Y
Go Solar In 2021: A Convenient & Easy Way To Produce Your Own Electricity
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