Jalopnik’s slant on Tesla isn’t nearly as bad as it should be. At the end of 2020, Tesla’s market cap was more than all other American, Japanese, and German automakers COMBINED, more than double all Chinese automakers COMBINED, and 25 times more than their primary battery partner (Panasonic).

Tesla’s market cap is more than all other American, Japanese and German automakers combined. It’s more than double all Chinese automakers combined.

I saw one of the new name suggestions from the linked article is the “Jeep Eagle,” which is painful to anyone alive in the ‘90s.  It’s like a Simpsons joke.  New Simpsons.

Isn’t this what wheelie bars were invented for? Why aren’t they required equipment for this kind of event?

Given that Jeep has essentially become the luxury badge of Old Mopar, they can move to the same ridiculous naming scheme the rest of the luxury brands use. Goodbye Jeep Cherokee/Grand Cherokee/Wrangler, hello Jeep CHJ/GCJ/WRJ!

It’s never not true:

Timeline review:
1) You claim you “can’t find any justification for calling Elon Musk an idiot”
2) I provide several justifications for calling him an idiot
3) You insist that I’m performing whataboutism by providing the justification you said you were unable to find

How about Musk calling a rescue worker a “pedo” because said individual called out his useless rescue theater? Or maybe when Musk was fined $20 million for manipulating his stock price with an obviously bogus claim of Tesla going private?

Much like fleet sales, Tesla has a right to determine what trim/spec of vehicles they sell to whom. If they feel that the base model is either a) not sufficiently profitable; or b) would harm the brand’s reputation due to subpar range then what’s the beef?

So an Escalade doesn’t qualify as luxury, then?

“Luxury” is not interchangeable with “performance.” A WRX STI is not a “luxury” vehicle, no matter how fast it is.

There are slightly more changes to the battery and power system than “here’s an extra motor.”

How big of a team do you need to say “stiffer suspension and a blower”?

There will still be 800HP cars.  They just won’t use combustion engines.

“Mindshare” is indistinguishable from “hype,” which is what drives every bubble of irrationally overvalued assets.

If you use the numbers for other solar panel and battery companies, Tesla is still wildly overvalued. That’s the point: even if you’re extremely bullish on every industry Tesla has their fingers in (EVs, batteries, solar), Tesla is worth FAR more than all of the leaders of all of those industries (including industry co…

For the sake of argument, let’s suppose Tesla’s solar business does rebound, and Tesla becomes one of the largest solar panel manufacturers. Excluding Tesla, if you add the market cap of:

The last picture that you showed is fully fictional. It is a house that does not exist, not even as a model house.

And a pony.

You’re talking about net metering, where your meter runs in reverse when you are sending energy back to the grid. Net metering is currently mandated in 34 states (plus DC and all territories). And yeah, net metering is a lot more beneficial than selling excess energy back to the utility.