Musk had it coming - the man already has an uncanny tendency to avoid trouble despite being an utter unhinged a**hole to everyone, from short sellers, parts suppliers, government, his own staff etc.

Chinese car manufacturers are almost bypassing ICE vehicles and heading straight towards EV, an area Ford is surprisingly weak. It also helps some of the world’s largest battery factories are located in China - and the government is only too happy to help out local business.

Autopilot is a fancy name Tesla trademarked for adaptive cruise control - something the e-Golf and i3 both have. Even the mundane Camry has radar adaptive cruise.

The best car to drive in rush hour traffic is a hybrid or a small city hatch. An e-Golf or i3 makes for better commuters period & they don’t break like a Tesla does, and even if they did, cost less money & time to fix.

Tesla is such a shitshow of a company & supported by hoards of devoted cult-like fanbase completely turns me off this car. Even in isolation, I think the Model 3 is disgusting - cheap materials, horrid build quality, no interior design to speak of & service/warranty work in mercy of Tesla themselves.

Everything is fine at Tesla...just fine...

You know what, keep talking about these obviously twisted/botched figures. I’ll try not to gloat when Tesla collapses in the next 3 quarters...if they make it that far.

Because that’s the only thing they can keep the narrative. Tesla increasing production even in the light of worsening cash flows is the only lifeline Tesla has left to give any investors (if any) to keep the lights on at Fremont for another quarter, possibly two.

How much longer are you going to harp on about this lie? Tesla LOSES MONEY on each unit they sell period. Even if tomorrow R&D + SG&A (misc. costs) were to be 0, Tesla would still be firmly in the red.

I cannot +1 this enough. Too much uneducated fools (perhaps fanboys) who still think Tesla has a future when all their financials says otherwise.

Why the heck is the ILX still using the last gen Civic’s platform when the current 10th gen Civic is already highly praised & out for almost 2 years already?

The only thing you’ll see about the Model Y is a single mockup or 1 handbuilt prototype for 2019. Want to get one on the road? With Tesla’s timing, wait until 2020 probably, 2022 definitely.

Stop spreading false info - even if you remove all of Tesla’s R&D as well as SG&A, their profits from selling cars is still firmly in the negative. Amazon loses money from investments & rapid growth, but their core business, selling things as an online merchant, is hugely profitable.

We are at a cross-roads between traditional ICE, transitional hybrid such as PHEVs and upcoming new propulsion technologies; the Chinese market has the best term to describe this; New Energy vehicles, such as BEV or Hydrogen.

That’s engineering for the sake of engineering. Sure I’m 90% confident that Mercedes could have shoved a 120 kWh battery into the EQC, used larger 300hp motors & even embarrassed Tesla with Lubricious mode down the drag strip.

It’s not hard to create a $90 item, advertise it at $70 and sell it at $80 (or $85 with options). Then cry when investors, critics and “haters” call you out on it. That’s Tesla’s modus operandi in a nutshell.

Exactly - bigger battery = more weight & lower efficiency. It is a trade-off no matter how you splice it.

The EQC dimension are not out yet...but still I honestly don’t mind comparing car sizes next to pretty ladies if that is a valid measurement :)

The height for the Bolt, Kona & GLC (which the EQC is based on) are all about the same. The GLC/EQC is a significantly larger vehicle however - the other two are almost sub-compact in length.

I don’t understand, but ~200mi is the gold standard of “enough” range for most EV right? After all as more and more EV appear, a public charging network would be the key factor in keeping them running on the road, and the EQC 400 has 110 kW DC fast charging which is just as quick as Tesla’s Supercharger.