What are the track times?

lol, what? Are you joking? Henry Ford treated his workers quite terribly. So much so that even despite the higher salaries, people still ended up leaving the company. I quote:

Uhm, both are smart moves. And it isn’t a “mental gymnastic”, it is simply a matter of pros and cons. Offering free unlimited superchargers means less profit margins on the cars, but it also helps dictate demand. So instead of making unlimited supercharging default to making it a promotion to help drive demand is a…

It is perfectly sustainable. It just simply hurts their profit margins slightly but that is about it.

To be fair, is there anything that doesn’t kill people?

What kind of nonsense are you talking about? If you noticed, SpaceX was the CHEAPEST one while offering the most services. That is also why they conquered 60% of the global commercial launch market in 2018. By being cheaper and better.

My guess is the purpose of the drivers is to keep the taxi unions happy. I hear the vegas taxi unions are quite powerful.

“U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010"

I’m guessing they showed up cause they want funding to help with their medical expenses. As you know, Trump is known for being petty, if they didn’t show, I wouldn’t be surprise if he repealed their benefits.

That is a bit odd. I wonder if maybe they got the address wrong? By that I mean there are places where people offer up their charging for free for EVs. Maybe they mixed up the place?

Gross profit margin is part of GAAP accounting, if you think it isn’t you either don’t know GAAP accounting or are on purpose playing word games to focus on the “per unit” aspect. But even then you are still wrong, because the average of per unit profit is essentially still the gross profit margin.

You are just ignoring facts just cause you don’t like them. (Trying to use personal accusations to try to undermine the argument is a sign that you know what I said is right and have no counter argument)

They’ve already shown they can with Q3 and Q4. Now it is a matter of building local factories so they can deliver the cars with minimum time spent in inventory(travel/customs and etc)

Ah, yes, because Q3 and Q4 was sold in US, with short delivery times. In Q1 and Q2, they started international deliveries which increased delivery times.

It’s not per unit, it’s on average, but it amounts to about that per unit.

They actually made 18.9% GAAP gross profit on each one they sold according to the financial data.

Are you on purpose pretending that economies of scale don’t exist?

Ah, weren’t we talking about profitability of EVs? Since when did we get into inverstors and all?

Tesla’s stock has always been volatile, so not sure where you are getting.. But if you really want to use investors are your benchmarking stick. Then Tesla has a market cap of 46.82B, that is more than Fiat Chrysler and Ford.

But they aren’t losing more money as they build more cars. They are losing less money and are making more and more profit margin per car.