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Originally posted by Eggchaser View PostNo, it's not. It's pumping out shitloads of cars for a company that only started making them in any vaguely serious volumes about a decade ago, making a profit on every one it sells.However, the balance sheet is shit because it's also burned a shit ton of cash to get there.
What's more, the make-or-break 'mass market' car has so far proven unbuildable in the required numbers.
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Hubris, meet nemesis. This will be the most wonderful defamation payout. He’ll surely be shunted aside soon if the board can, especially if he is just the ego maniac front end with no tech savvy.
I blame unchecked cult of Jobs for this worship at the feet of evil sociopath bastards that are more branding than substance.
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Tesla sounds like a situation ripe for a buyout and stripping away of the valuable asset to just leave the debts, or an administration and pre-pack. Turn the debts to junk, keep manufacturing the thing you can sell for more than it costs to build.
And one hopes that Musk is forced to properly apologise as well as paying this bloke a shedload of money. But it won't be. "I mis-typed"
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Originally posted by Eggchaser View PostNo, it's not. It's pumping out shitloads of cars for a company that only started making them in any vaguely serious volumes about a decade ago, making a profit on every one it sells. However, the balance sheet is shit because it's also burned a shit ton of cash to get there.
It's just a weird company, if a Tesla employee farts it's huge news, they are subject to a spotlight like no other car maker, probably because of the way vested interests have been poked - witness the absolute torrent of horseshit pumped out by the Koch brothers' guns for hire, using the same playbook as climate change denial.
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God Emperor of red dust. Overthrown by folk who actually have the skills needed to survive to make his Space x private colony bollocks a reality, yep I’m with you on this one Bruno. Just take away his oxygen when he suffers his Banishment.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostHow do you reconcile the two statements above? They're pumping out a decent number of cars in a very specific, narrow segment. And doing so at their retail price. But I don't see how that's making a profit on every one if the company is not only not profitable, but chewing through money at an astounding pace.
What's more, the make-or-break 'mass market' car has so far proven unbuildable in the required numbers.
Tesla produce a serious number of cars for the position the company is in, and if you want to complain about EV production numbers, I direct you to the utterly pathetic attempts by every other manufacturer bar Nissan - which has no thermal management on the batteries, and Renault, which had its brainless battery lease nonsense. Anyone who believes anything Musk says about delivery times or numbers needs their head examining.
I have little time for Musk beyond the remarkable impact he has had in starting the transition away from ICE, I am no fan of most of his nuttery, but to try and pretend Tesla the company hasn't been a game changer is wrong.
And the serious push back against EVs had started, with Koch brothers lies flooding every channel, straight out of the climate change denial playbook, shit like Toyota's "self-charging hybrids" strapline etc alLast edited by Eggchaser; 17-07-2018, 07:44.
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Originally posted by WOM View PostIt would be impossible to 'rubbish' Tesla's achievements if they could simply build the cars they've designed, promised, and sold. Simply doing what he says he's going to do would go a very long way.
This is the inevitable downside of being the Public Face of a company, in the world of twitter, when there's no-one in a position to tell you to shut up and stop being a dickhead. He really needs to get a grip of himself.
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I love that his "off the record" email stays within the bounds of euphemism for approximately several words: "there's no caves there, so there must be some other reason for this middle-aged man to visit and later move to such parts of the world, if you know what I mean? *wink wink* (I'm talking about child sex-trafficking)".
Fucking weird-lipped, hair-plugged, John DeLorean-speedrun freak. Did we even do the Azealia Banks stuff?
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