I'm surprised it took this long. Did their building leases expire ..read more

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If the Rivian/VW joint venture works, good for them. All they have to do is make an operational profit on each EV sold. My understanding is Tesla and BYD are the only companies making an operational profit. Tesla to the tune of an 18% margin, ~3x better than BYD. So when Toyota and Mercedes bought and later sold Tesla stock, both were making profits and those shares helped Tesla survive. Just they could not adopt the Elon method of engineering and manufacturing management. Recently,... Rivian and VW ..read more

Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team! Barely two weeks after initiating layoffs for at least 14,000 staffers, Tesla is now reportedly laying off hundreds more — including senior executives and the majority of its Supercharging team. According to an email first reported by The Information and then Electrek, the automaker’s senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci is leaving the company on Tuesday, alongside most of the 500-person team she oversaw.... Tesla fires all Supercharger employees..500 ..read more

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The tree-house protests at the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Brandenburg are ongoing and will legally (ruled by a German court) continue at least until may. The tree-house camp is inside the pine tree & spruce mono-culture plantation, which the protestors want to prevent from being cleared by Tesla. There was significant police... Treehouse Protests & Water Concerns & Expansion of the Tesla Gigafactory - Berlin Grünheide ..read more

FSD now costs $8,000. I think the consensus is that it's worth $5,000. So still a ways to go ..read more

Okay, so a lot in that post title to take in. TLDR-What are people's experiences with putting a Tesla in long-term storage? What should I keep the battery capacity set to and how often should I drive it? Is there any potential for it to be a collector car given mass production? I have a 2017 Model S with ~100k miles that I absolutely love. The battery capacity has degraded some but it is still so much fun for my commute. Not so great to travel to see my family out of state, which I am... 'mothballing' a Tesla to keep as a 'collector' car ..read more

As recently at Mar 22, 2024, O'Dowd posted on Twitter/X: Human supervised FSD v12 is still far less safe than driving manually, it drives like a drunk teenager and can't pass a DMV driving test, which even the worst 16yr old driver passed.​ Then Elon e-mailed to the Tesla staff: The CEO wrote in an email to employees:...​ Dan O'Dowd on FSD ..read more

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