Paul Fosse A Software engineer for over 30 years, first developing EDI software, then developing data warehouse systems. Along the way, I've also had the chance to help start a software consulting firm and do portfolio management. In 2010, I took an interest in electric cars because gas was getting expensive. In 2015, I started reading CleanTechnica and took an interest in solar, mainly because it was a threat to my oil and gas investments. Follow me on Twitter @atj721 Tesla investor. Tesla referral code: https://ts.la/paul92237
August 20th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
For those of you who have followed the Norway Tesla registration statistics this quarter, it has been very slow since the end of quarter flurry in June. Tesla delivered most of its shipments in June and the country has been waiting for a ship since then
August 17th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Tesla had made several pricing changes to the Model 3 since the Model Y was unveiled, and the company hadn't updated the pricing and configurations in the Model Y Design Studio to reflect that until yesterday
August 7th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
First, the bad news. Negative headlines are everywhere today, as the NHTSA has sent a letter to Tesla to stop claiming that the Tesla Model 3 has the lowest probability of injury of any car tested by
August 4th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
This story is inspired by a friend from my day job who is a successful Technical Project Manager. I'm known at work as the "Tesla Guy" since I rave about the car if given the slightest opportunity, so when my friend Raquel Aluisy approached me for information on the car, I was more than happy to give her a test ride and explain what makes the Model 3 so special
July 27th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Elon Musk recently tweeted some exciting news to those who own Tesla cars and those considering buying them. Although all Tesla cars have had a web browser for a while, that browser didn't support Netflix or YouTube. Elon tweeted that Tesla will soon be rolling out both YouTube and Netflix capability to cars!
July 27th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
This article was inspired by a tweet by a popular YouTuber who commented that his driveway is going to look like a Tesla dealership. I replied that although I have only one Tesla now, everyone in my family wants a Tesla, even though none of them had any interest in the car during the 2 years I was talking about it but they hadn't yet seen it. Once they got to spend some time in the car, they all came to love it
July 24th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Right after the market close today, Tesla released its Q2 2019 earnings letter, and it was a mixed bag. Clearly, [&hellip
July 14th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Here at CleanTechnica, we’ve published a lot about Norway’s smashing EV success. It makes us wonder, who’s next? One possible [&hellip
July 13th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Last holiday weekend, my brother in law (who also loves to test drive cars) suggested I drive 6 cars and get $265 in gift cards. I thought, "I get to drive cars, I get gift cards, and its a great story idea" (well, I guess you the reader will be the judge of that). What is the downside? Well, dealers calling me for the next month and asking if I want to buy the car I drove
July 6th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
In Max Holland’s excellent article on BMW last week, Max did an excellent job refuting BMW’s claims that batteries will [&hellip
July 3rd, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
After the recent announcement of Tesla's record breaking Q2 production and deliveries, the bears on Tesla can no longer say that Tesla can't build or sell or deliver cars in Q2, but they can repeat the same for Q3. That's fine with me. I'm ready to meet them. So, with everyone talking about the Q2 numbers today, I'm happy to shift the conversation to the third quarter. Let's talk about what we know about Q3. (Full Disclosure: I'm long Tesla [TSLA] stock, but don't expect this to be only good news.)
June 30th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
The purpose of this article is to challenge the narrative that is commonly heard on mainstream news sites that Tesla has sold a few cars to a few people who just care about the climate, but that Tesla doesn't know what it is doing. The second part of that is often that Tesla's leader, Elon Musk, is a great fraud, someone who can get his faithful excited but never delivers on his promises
June 22nd, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
This article is my reminder that the federal tax credit will go down from $3,750 to $1,875 for Tesla buyers in about a week — you must take delivery by Sunday, June 30th, to get the larger tax credit. Just a week ago, I wrote an article giving 5 reasons to buy before July 1st. Briefly, they are
June 17th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Subaru sales are down 66% in 2019, Mazda sales are down 45% in the last 3 years, and Ford sales are down 50% in the last 10 years
June 15th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'll go over the 4 real reasons to buy a Tesla now. The fifth one is just that they are fun to drive and who wants to wait? In summary, those 4 reasons are
June 15th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
TL;DR: It depends. Used Model 3's are either a great deal or a horrible one and I will present both cases and they are both potentially true. I depends on your situation
June 14th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
As reported here and here, there was a lot of information presented at the 2019 Tesla annual shareholder meeting. And although there were a lot of small details covered and hints given about the future, there wasn't any earth-shattering news. In my summary, I noted they didn't "let the cat out of the bag." But I didn't really know what the cat was, so I didn't comment
June 12th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
In one sense, it is ridiculous to write about Tesla Model 3 maintenance, because there is so little to do, [&hellip
June 11th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Tesla just completed its annual shareholder meeting. Like in meetings past, it was fairly long and covered almost every Tesla topic under the sun. To make it easier for people who couldn't watch, wouldn't watch, or simply want to go back to some of the topics in the meeting, below is a timestamped summary from Paul, who kindly stayed up late in Florida (just not as late as me here in Poland) to put this together for the world
June 8th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Last week, I was browsing Twitter and I noticed that one of my friends got his post liked by Elon Musk! It was even the top #tesla post for a while. In case you missed it, I thought I'd share his story with you and maybe it will inspire you as it did me to promote Tesla to more people
June 2nd, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
The Tesla community was excited when they heard that Ryan McCaffrey had scored an interview with Elon Musk for his 200th episode of the "Ride The Lightning" podcast, and he did not disappoint!
June 1st, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
I have been taking a lot of long drives in my Tesla Model 3 lately while getting my son set up in his first job across the state of Florida. I was returning from Melbourne to Tampa one evening after moving him into his apartment and I discovered something about the Model 3 that I didn't like
May 29th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
Most of the attention the Tesla Model 3 has gotten over the last few years has been from male auto enthusiasts, and that makes sense to me. But no matter who you are, the acceleration and handling of the car forever alters your expectations of cars after you drive it once. That’s why I loved this Model 3 video, it gives a new perspective that we haven’t heard 100 times before
May 28th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
John Rougeux recently ordered and took delivery of a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range with 570 miles on the odometer. He was charged $35,400 (there was a $400 price increase recently), but he got $1,250 off since the car had 570 miles
