The stock absolutely has relevance on the company itself in this case. Why?

Tesla is bleeding tons of cash. Unless they fix that ASAP (and who in their right mind really believes their talk of being cashflow positive this year?), they’re going to need more cash. They’ll end up having to turn to the market for another…

Yeah - except those gross profit margins have been dropping significantly and are only so high by accounting shenanigans.

They’ve launched everything they promised. They’ve missed wildly on time and cost though.

There is no way the model 3 will be an entry luxury sedan at that price point. And we’re assuming they even get to that price point, because Tesla doesn’t have a good track record of meeting their price targets.

Thanks for pointing out something there - GM’s list price for a replacement Volt battery is already below the per kWh price Tesla says they’ll be able to get to with their Gigafactory. So either Tesla is overestimating their cost, or they’re building a massively expensive factory that will be less efficient than the…

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

And the banks and auto finance arms aren’t bundling up these loans and putting them out on the market with incorrect bond ratings and implicit government backing, either. The ones making the loans are holding the loans.

That is true - they do last longer. I suspect that’s part of the reason behind the drop in the linear fit, with a partial offset because the number of cars per household has increased. When I was a kid (I won’t say how close to the beginning of that period (or earlier) that was), most families had 1 or 2 cars. Kids…

That’s beyond absurd.

1) Car loans at 0% interest are generally at inflated prices, so no different than a lower sales price and higher interest. The car companies are paying higher interest rates than 0% and they aren’t in the business of giving things away.

2) Car loans are built around the concept that the collateral…

Probably higher than that.

I took the SAAR per fed data divided by the US population. Since 1976, we’ve averaged 55.96 vehicles sold per 1000 residents per year. Last year we hit 55.53 (Note: SAAR data averaged over the course of the year isn’t a perfect match for annual sales, but a decent approximation).

Now, we’ve…

A few distinct advantages of streetcars over Buses:

1) They generally carry more passengers per meter in length than buses. This means that on very busy streets they don’t bring as much congestion. My hometown nearly bought a bunch of streetcars for this very reason - they had already jammed the streets so full of…

“Those who were laid off were told they would need to reapply for other jobs at Toyota”

Gotta love it when employees are treated as disposable objects.

To build on earlier comments, every LED has a current v. intensity curve that smart designers will use. On a recent project I did for home use, the red LEDs I had maxed out at 20 milliamps and were almost exactly as bright at 10 milliamps. With every LED, you have to limit current to prevent burnout, so I designed the…

According to the EPA’s estimators, our household has a carbon footprint roughly just 1/3 the average for american households.

I’ll charge my phone in my car if I damn well please. :)

Is it really that hard when you hire people that have done all of it before, just while employed for said industry behemoths?

2nd:

The only problem there is that Mazda doesn’t have anywhere near enough spare capacity currently. They dumped what little they had when they sold out of their stake in the Flat Rock plant, and their current expansion plans only relieve their capacity crunch, not make enough room for supplying FCA with any…

Clearly what we need here is for Elon Musk to start a defense company. Then when the ships are delivered years late at much higher prices than promised, instead of people blasting the inefficient defense industry, they’ll talk about what a visionary he is and how everything will be even better once he gets another…

Good luck to them.

But they’ve never hit their targets for production date or vehicle price... or really even come that close to them. I’ll be shocked if that changes here. Similarly, I’ll be shocked if they can turn around their massive losses anytime soon.

And all of those investments in facilities are capital investments, so they affect cash flow but not profitability - they only hit profits when they’re depreciated, not while they’re being built. But don’t expect the fan boys to understand that.

Have you looked at the Transit Connect Wagon? Odd looking, but it really fits the budget minivan slot....

It also won’t get anywhere near 53 mpg when subjected to the US test method. Euro tests always end up with higher ratings than US tests.