Tesla Motors

Morgan Stanley: “Tesla’s Call Was The Most Unusual I Have Experienced In 20 Years”

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– Morgan Stanley: “Tesla’s Call Was The Most Unusual I Have Experienced In 20 Years”:

“To be clear. Tonight’s conference call didn’t go very well. It made an odd turn ~37 minutes in…”
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World News (April 12, 2018 Edition): Putin Urges Israel Not To Take Action In Syria – New California Bill Would ELIMINATE Free Speech, Require ‘Online Fact Checkers’ – 11 Russian Warships Leave Syrian Port To Conduct Exercises – UK Moves Submarines Next To Syria, Strikes May Begin As Soon As Thursday

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– New California Bill Would ELIMINATE Free Speech, Require ‘Online Fact Checkers’

– UK Moves Submarines Next To Syria, Strikes May Begin As Soon As Thursday

– 11 Russian Warships Leave Syrian Port To Conduct Exercises

– Putin Urges Israel Not To Take Action In Syria

No chance, because TPTB have WW3 planned for us:

– Four-Star US General Warns “War Is On The Horizon” As Syria Situation Escalates

– ‘Treason May’: Theresa May Ready To Join Syria Strike Without Seeking Parliamentary Approval

– Syrian Army Discovers White Helmets’ Filming Site in Eastern Ghouta

– Tesla Blames Dead Driver For Fatal Crash, As Family Prepares To Sue

– First “Luxury Space Hotel” Set To Open In 2022 (NOT going to happen!)

– Doug Casey Warns “It’s Going To Get Very Unpleasant In The US At Some Point Soon”

– Trump Lawyer Raid: Bank Records, Taxes And Deals With Women Sought

– Facebook Has Dozens Of Former Obama And Hillary Staffers In Senior Positions

– Because we all know that it’s “Thank you Russia!!!” instead:

– The World’s Two Superpower Countries Are Walking On The Edge Of The Abyss In Syria

– 6 Simple Reasons Why Trump Is Going To War In Syria

– World War III Will Be An Economic War (No, it won’t. It will be the HOTTEST WAR ever!!!)

– After Months Of Stalling, DOJ Hands Over Memo That Helped Launch Russia Probe

– Russia Credit Risk Spikes Most In 5 Years As “Real Economic War” Escalates

Terrorists supported by the U.S. …

Is that Freemason and Illuminati puppet now playing 7D chess in the eyes of his followers,…

…or will Americans finally see the truth, that he is an elite puppet, just like Killary Rotten Clinton?

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– Insanity reaches another record high: LA Painting Streets White to Prevent Global Warming:

Los Angeles is spending $40,000 per mile painting asphalt streets white to try to prevent global warming.

– Australia: ‘It’s a disgrace’: Police officer who was pushed out of the force for investigating a pedophile priest molesting children in the 70s is now struggling to make ends meet

– Mexico: 14 murdered in 36 hours as tourist paradise is overrun by violence:

MEXICO’S most popular holiday hotspot has become overrun with drug gangs, as violence in the tourist party town escalates to unprecedented levels.

– Biologically inspired membrane purges coal-fired smoke of greenhouse gases

– Infografía: Cómo se reparten los cárteles mexicanos sus zonas de influencia en Estados Unidos

– Mexican drug cartels: ‘The most serious threat the US has faced from organized crime’

– PDF: UNCLASSIFIED (U) United States: Areas of Influence of Major Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations

– Sweden charges Tibetan resident with spying on fellow exiles for China

– Revealed: What kills more people in the United States than guns? Life and death in fascinating charts

– New Jersey investment banker who got cancer from talcum powder wins ANOTHER $80 MILLION in Johnson & Johnson case – bringing his total compensation to $117 million

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Elon Musk “Jokes” That Tesla Has Filed For Bankruptcy

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– Elon Musk “Jokes” That Tesla Has Filed For Bankruptcy:

In what we assume is a morbid April Fool’s joke, late on Sunday Elon Musk decided to have some “fun” with his 20 million Twitter followers and unknown number of investors, and after previewing earlier in the day that he will have “Important news in a few hours …”, the Tesla CEO tweeted that “Tesla Goes Bankrupt Palo Alto, California, April 1, 2018 — Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt. So bankrupt, you can’t believe it.”

There was more “humor” – in a subsequent tweet, Musk tweeted that “There are many chapters of bankruptcy and, as critics so rightly pointed out, Tesla has them *all*, including Chapter 14 and a half (the worst one).”

Musk concluded joking that after the bankruptcy, he “was found passed out against a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by “Teslaquilla” bottles, the tracks of dried tears still visible on his cheeks. This is not a forward-looking statement, because, obviously, what’s the point? Happy New Month!”…

Read moreElon Musk “Jokes” That Tesla Has Filed For Bankruptcy

Why the Fire that Incinerated a Tesla Was Such a Nightmare to Put Out

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– Why the Fire that Incinerated a Tesla Was Such a Nightmare to Put Out:

On March 23, a 38-year-old man driving a Tesla Model X rammed headfirst into an unshielded highway median while traveling south on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, California. Two other vehicles subsequently rear-ended the SUV, which caught fire after the driver, who later died from his injuries, was pulled from the wreckage.

According to news reports, the car blaze shut the highway for 5 hours, firefighters required special suits for cleanup, and at one point had to call Tesla for help in containing the blaze. On Tuesday (March 27), the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced a field investigation into the incident.

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H/t reader kevin a.

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“Tesla, without any doubt, is on the verge of bankruptcy.”

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– “Tesla, without any doubt, is on the verge of bankruptcy.”:

Just a few days ago, shareholders of Tesla approved an almost comical pay package for their cult leader CEO Elon Musk that could potentially put $50 BILLION in his pocket over the next decade.

Let’s put this figure in perspective: at $5 billion per year, Musk would make more than every single CEO in the S&P 500. COMBINED.

In other words, if you add up the salaries of all the CEOs of the 500 largest companies in America, it would still be less than the $5 billion per year that Mr. Musk stands to earn.

That’s pretty astounding given that Tesla’s own 2017 4th quarter financial report (page 24) states that Elon “does not devote his full time and attention to Tesla”.

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Driver Of Tesla Model X Dies After Violent Crash Incinerates Car

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– Driver Of Tesla Model X Dies After Violent Crash Incinerates Car:

Only the charred rear half of a Tesla Model X remained intact Friday morning on a highway near Mountain View after the vehicle crashed into a carpool lane barrier and caught fire, with the trapped driver dying later from his injuries.

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The Tesla Model 3 Will Need to Improve Its Charge Time, Fast

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– The Tesla Model 3 Will Need to Improve Its Charge Time, Fast:

Tesla wants the upcoming Model 3 to be the first electric car for everyone, but to do so, it’ll need a seriously amount of infrastructure in place. Fast charging is critical to the electric car’s success — drivers need to be able to top up the car’s juice in an emergency — but Tesla’s network of fast chargers might not be adequate for the company’s production targets.

We don’t know for sure how long the Model 3 will take to charge, but we can reach an approximation based on Tesla’s current range. The 90kWh Model S, with a range of 294 miles as tested by the EPA, takes around 10 hours to charge from a NEMA 14-50 power outlet. From a wall connector, that can drop to as low as five hours and 30 minutes.

Read moreThe Tesla Model 3 Will Need to Improve Its Charge Time, Fast

Elon Musk Sells $3.5 Million Worth Of Flamethrowers In One Day

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– Elon Musk Sells $3.5 Million Worth Of Flamethrowers In One Day:

Elon Musk’s latest circus-like attempt to distract from the negative coverage surrounding Tesla’s production delays and his “The Boring Company’s” stalled LA tunnel project has been surprisingly lucrative.

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Japanese renewables firm takes on Tesla in solar panels tech, says it can replace building materials

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– Japanese renewables firm takes on Tesla in solar panels tech, says it can replace building materials:

A Japanese firm intends to give Tesla a run for its technology, by making solar cells in designs that can make it building material substitutes.

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H/t reader kevin a.

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Germany Ends Tesla Model S Subsidies In Massive Blow To Company’s Government Funded Business Plan

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– Germany Ends Tesla Model S Subsidies In Massive Blow To Company’s Government Funded Business Plan:

Apparently German government officials have finally woken up to the realization that it’s utterly ridiculous to use tax revenue generated primarily from middle and low-income households to fund subsidy payments to rich people buying $100,000 luxury sports cars.  As Business Standard notes this morning, the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Controls announced that it will no longer subsidize the Tesla Model S as it can not be delivered in a configuration that meets the 60,000 euro price limit.

A German government agency has removed Tesla’s Model S from the list of electric cars eligible for subsidies because it is not available in a version that falls within a 60,000 euro ($71,448) price limit.

Tesla customers could not order the Model S without extra features that pushed the price of the car above the limit, a spokesman for the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Controls (BAFA) said on Friday.

German magazine Auto Bild had reported that BAFA was looking into the issue and could take Tesla off the eligibility list.

According to Reuters, Germany launched their incentive scheme, worth about 1 billion euros, last year.  The funding requirements were shared by the German car industry to boost electric car usage. A price cap was included to exempt premium models.  Under the subsidy scheme, buyers get 4,000 euros off their all-electric vehicle purchase and 3,000 euros off plug-in hybrids.

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Is This The Tesla Killer?

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– Is This The Tesla Killer?:

We all know the story behind Fisker, it was one of the world’s first plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in 2008, and even had a legal spat between Tesla, but shortly after in 2012 the company crashed and burned in bankruptcy. Last year, Henrik Fisker decided to relaunch his brand. He thought that one failure wasn’t enough—-just like Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets. During Fisker’s relaunch, he made a shocking comment that caught the attention of Musk and it was on the claims of a new breakthrough in battery technology using graphene-based hybrid material that would revolutionize battery storage and make Musk’s batteries appear obsolete.

Thirteen months passed, and Musk wrote off Fisker’s claims, as Musk decided to focus on other things like his Boring company. That might of been Musk’s fatal flaw, because Fisker just came out and dropped a bombshell on the electric vehicle (EV) industry: ‘New Fisker Batteries 2.5x Density, 500 Miles Per Charge & Charging in 1 Minute’..

Musk will shortly developed uncontrollable convulsions with the understanding his Gigafactory producing thin-film lithium batteries could be obsolete.

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Amid Management Exodus, Tesla Fires Hundreds Of Workers

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– Amid Management Exodus, Tesla Fires Hundreds Of Workers:

In an absurd demonstration of Musk’s bizarre management style, the company said the mass terminations have “generally boosted worker morale”, as high-performing employees have been rewarded; it was unclear what the up to 700 layoffs, pardon, exit events did to worker morale.

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Elon Musk Magically Extends the Battery Life of Tesla Vehicles Fleeing Hurricane Irma

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Magic!

– Elon Musk Magically Extends Battery Life Of Teslas Fleeing Irma:

In what is either a generous act of charity or an unnerving example of the control Tesla exercises over the vehicles it producers, or perhaps both, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has magically unlocked the batteries of every Tesla in Florida to maximize the distance that people fleeing from Hurricane Irma can travel before stopping to refuel at one of the company’s “superstation” charging centers.

Typically, these types of over-the-air upgrades can cost thousands – if not tens of thousands – of dollars.

Read moreElon Musk Magically Extends the Battery Life of Tesla Vehicles Fleeing Hurricane Irma

Tesla Ignores Q2 Record Cash Burn And Slashes Its Model X And Model S Prices

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– Tesla Ignores Q2 Record Cash Burn And Slashes Its Model X And Model S Prices:

So what do you do when you’ve just burned through a record $1.2 billion of cash in one quarter, expect to burn an additional $2 billion in capex in the second half of the year and haven’t a prayer of generating positive earnings at any point in the near future?  Well, you slash your product prices, of course.

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Government “Flabbergasted” After Elon Musk’s Most Bizarre Claim Yet

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– Government “Flabbergasted” After Elon Musk’s Most Bizarre Claim Yet:

Musk:  “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.”NYC:  “This is news to City Hall.”

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