I’d be shocked if the NYPD isn’t the most funded law enforcement agency, aside from the FBI. Its budget is larger than the entire city budgets of Boston and Chicago combined. It has no reason to be performing functions that the NSA, FBI and CIA already do. None.

However, the CIA and the NYPD have a strong…

NYPD doesn’t have a nicer plane lying around.

Easy way to buy a cheap Humongous SUV is to find one with 300K miles that is less than 5 Years old and drop in a fresh GM Crate motor.

“Passenger miles per gallon” in large SUVs and full size vans can make a Prius look like a gas-guzzler.

Europeans don’t buy the type of cars that we make because Europeans hate freedom; clearly.

So to get a balanced view, the solution is to read both Jalopnik AND Electrek!

Thank you for clearly summing up your balanced views of Tesla.

I dig what they’re doing, technology wise, but vilifying American union labor while building $70k cars in a tent is enough for me to become disinterested in what they have going on out there. 

This “House of cards”, is unsustainable. Sure the Model 3 is a cool car and you can buy it way below cost. Don’t bother with an extended warranty, there won’t be a company to honor it.

Search for photos of BMW’s South Carolina plant and get back to me.  It’s their largest plant in the world.  Every BMW SUV comes out of that plant.  They build 800,000 vehicles a year there.  And it’s spotless.  As is Toyota’s largest plant in the world in Kentucky.  Spotless.  It can and is done by manufacturers who…

Like what exactly?

No kidding.  This is what immediately popped into my head when Musk starting hinting that they would hit their mark last week.

The attitude that installed equipment can just be pushed harder is moronic and shows extreme short sighted.

Ok, so they met their 5000 goal, but what they are not saying is that they did it by adding extra shifts on the original assembly line and by buying enough equipment to make a sperate Assembly Line under a tent. The production volume news sounds great for investors but I bet a look under the sheets shows a large drop…

5,000th car comes off the line. . . 

That’s why we pay attention to GAAP, not non-GAAP.  They’ve pulled this before to show a non-GAAP profit (briefly).  GAAP principles will let you recognize the deposit, but insist on creating a liability of equal value.  Non-GAAP methods let you get away with murder by comparison.  They’ve really gotten away with…

This deserves FAR more stars... :)

Since they hit the number, do the workers get the full raise?

That was a cute accounting trick Tesla pulled last week. It’s going to make big headlines when they have a profitable quarter because of it. But what happens after when they’ve already recognized all the margin associated with the revenue from their next two years worth of production?

“In a very tangible sense, Tesla views its production line as a laboratory for untested techniques. In recent weeks, company executives concluded they could produce Model 3 underbodies with fewer spot welds than they had been using. The car is still held together by about 5,000 welds, but engineers concluded that some…