Tesla Model 3 Is #1 Top Selling American Car In USA
October 9th, 2018Via: CleanTechnica:
Tesla’s production and sales growth is stunning. It is one of the most dramatic manufacturing stories in US history, let alone 2018. The sales records and eye-warping bar charts are in multiple important categories, not just in the electric vehicle space.
However, one story I haven’t seen highlighted yet is that the Tesla Model 3 was the #1 top selling American car in September.
The only three cars that sold more than this American success story were the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, and Honda Civic.
Related: Tesla Model 3 Achieves Lowest Probability of Injury of Any Vehicle Ever Tested by NHTSA
Musk may have risen to the level of a threat to the psychopathic financial oligarchs who use as their personal avatars big banks, hedge funds, media corporations, politicians etc, as he appears to have some genuine motivation to make the world a better place and which is probably combined with the fact that a proper control file on him does not exist.
Has all the short selling of Tesla been legitimate, or has some been of the illegal, weaponized, naked variety? With the 2007 lawsuit by Overstock.com and its founder Dr Patrick Byrne, Goldman Sachs payed an undisclosed amount to Overstock 8 years later for creating/facilitating naked short selling against that firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/case-sheds-light-on-goldmans-role-as-lender-in-short-sales.html
Dr Patrick Byrne is an exceptional human being from everything I’ve seen. In addition to its main online furniture business, Overstock has been a pioneer in blockchain technology and one of their subsidiaries, TZERO, intends to place normal company stocks on the blockchain. In the following video, he explains that after spending 30 million on the lawsuit and somehow having the company survive the illegal onslaught, an amazing fact came to light: 75% OF GOLDMAN SACHS’ PRIME BROKERAGE REVENUE COMES FROM SECURITIES LENDING, i.e short selling–How much of that has been naked shorting? Putting stock on the blockchain would eliminate the fraud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQvMsbb-Cw
Byrne from 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdBe5_8z53A
The coordinated PSYOP against Tesla is very strong. Also, Musk’s own personality is as much of a threat to Tesla as Tesla’s numerous enemies.
I’m less inclined to believe the naked shorts theory on Tesla, but nothing would surprise me. The fact is that Tesla remains an extremely expensive stock relative to other car manufacturers.
The long argument, of course, is that Tesla is different. Is it?
Yep. I think so. In my opinion, the correct past analogy is Apple and the initial release of the iPhone. What Tesla is doing is “iPhone” level in terms of EVs and energy storage.
I can’t personally speak to the quality of Tesla’s vehicles, but I’ve had a Powerwall 2 at home since the end of June and, as a working professional in the solar + storage industry, I can assure you that the Powerwall 2 lives up to the hype. From the physical build quality to the performance to the app integration, everything else looks stupid. My criticisms of the product (there are a few) are noise level relative to what it’s doing for us.
The media doesn’t focus much on storage, but Tesla could do vastly more business in that area if they had the cells to spare. It took me six months after making my deposit for me to get my Powerwall. Others are reporting a year or more in the queue. Residential is more of an annoyance to Tesla than anything else at this point. I feel thankful that they will even sell these systems to individuals. Tesla could easily focus on MW/H and up deals and skip the red tape with residential.
Maybe they offer the Powerwall as a sort of “gateway drug” to Tesla’s other offerings. In other words, maybe the plan is to convert Powerwall owners into Tesla vehicle owners. I don’t know.
I noticed that it was hard to get answers from Tesla before I paid my deposit. After paying the deposit, though, I could get quick responses. Tesla basically doesn’t care about talking to people who haven’t plonked down money to get in the queue! I don’t think the shorts understand this. There are so many people who want to throw money at those products that Tesla is hardly interested in talking to people who haven’t paid a deposit.
Also very interesting was the Daimler quip that the Tesla Semi specs were impossible. Then Musk responded by saying that the shipping product will have even higher specs for the same money.
https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=52399
Tesla is booking hundreds of preorders for the Semi and this is just companies testing the waters.
Mercedes also gave up on their home energy storage system because it was impossible to compete with the Powerwall.
Anyway…
Short a company that’s making Mercedes look dumb?
Man oh man, not worth the risk if you ask me.
One other thing: The Germans are now coming for Tesla in force. The real impact is still a couple of years out, but they are definitely coming.
And now…
Tesla increases the price of the Powerwall as demand greatly outpaces production
https://electrek.co/2018/10/12/tesla-powerwall-price-increase/