They actually report both in their SEC filings.

I agree. I could see Tesla becoming another major automaker in a decade or so but for now it is very much a niche player and it does well in that niche. Despite my comment on their financial statements they are capable of being profitable, they have just chosen growth over profit for now.

Yep, both by GM for what they think its costing Tesla to build and by Tesla for what they hope it will cost.

Conclusively ending the argument:

Considering they use a “Grown up” Ford Modular V8 maybe they’ll produce compatable heads...

Yes but look at the weight to get that range. A far larger percentage of an electric vehicles weight is fuel compared to a gas powered vehicle with the same range. Last I recall the best Li battery has 1/30th the energy density of gasoline. That is going to hamstring electric cars for the foreseable future (unless…

For the love of all thats holy, stay away from K&N Filters! They are the absolute cheapest construction on the market people by them because of the name. Go with your OEM those seem to be uniformly high quality and NAPA as well.

The driving range and performance are going to be liabilities for electric short of a revolution in battery technology.

They may be assuming the production line there will allow them that low of a production cost, I am not convinced. This isn’t like Space-X were they were competing in an industry that had never had much competition. Car manufacturers would sacrifice their firstborn to shave an extra 1% of manufacturing costs and its…

Going by your own source 1/3 of the country your better off in an ICE. Thats just for operating emissions. Factoring in manufacturing emissions (which they very much handwaved) I suspect a much larger portion of the country would make more sense for ICE.

GAAP-ish. They aren’t accounting for guaranteed vehicle by back which would make those sales actually be leases and raises their earnings.

On this one he is questioning how the finished product is within $30 of its materials cost which is a valid eyebrow raiser.

Slow your roll. While the complaints about the model 3 coming from a competitor will be suspect there are reasons to be concerned about their business model.

Mustang II was a superior handling car to its predecessor. It had a double wishbone suspension and rack and pinion steering vs the solid front and steering box it replaced.

Ford use to do this. You could only buy the 93 and 95 Cobra Rs if you had a NASA or SCCA license. They should have done this with the current one, its winding up more of a museum car than the 2000.

Mustangs didn't gain one until 2005. Im sure there are still vehicles relying on good ol mechanical advantage.

The “counter measure” was a smaller rocket that the RPG 30 fired first to set off the APS early. This was addressed with a simple software upgrade for Trophy. I don’t think the software update was all that necesary as the initial rocket would disrupt the launchers aim on an already inaccurate system not to mention the…

Actually it makes armor more necessary. Previously you could argue that heavy armor was pointless in a world full of ATGMs. With Trophy the only reliable way to kill a tank is a kinetic energy based round, which is possible to stop with lots of armor.

X2 The wave died when they started making the unlimited and every soccer mom and broski had to have one.

Chrysler needs to make this happen. I’ll go pick up the AMC engineer from the retirement home now.