Bloomberg Intelligence thinks that Volkswagen could sell more electric vehicles (EVs) than Tesla by 2024, but that even if this does happen, Tesla will still be a key leader in the industry. Volkswagen has been saying this for a while now, and one thing that is for sure is that … [continued]
A shortage of AdBlue is pushing prices up, and bringing the diesel trucking industry to a halt.
The average new car transaction price in the US continues to rise; in September 2020, it was $38,723. It’s no wonder that Teslas are holding their value over time.
With stability across multiple industries, Tesla shows how Brand Association is out and the Product Age is in.
Earlier this month, I shared my thoughts about a CNN article that stated that Tesla (TSLA) short sellers lost more than the entire US airline industry in 2020. In that piece, I also shared some thoughts from Jim Chanos, one of Tesla’s most notorious and outspoken short sellers, who happens to still believe that Tesla will fail.
Tesla has a goal to reach a total of 500,000 deliveries by the end of this year — in a couple of weeks. Wedbush’s Dan Ives points out that vehicle demand from China could help Tesla exceed that goal.
This title may have caught you off-guard and made you do a double-take. After all, Europe is having a record, blowout, tremendously inspiring year for electric vehicle sales.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That’s a maxim that I imagine could get you fired from Tesla. Tesla is obsessively focused on “fixing” what is working fine but not working as well as it could be. Tesla is obsessively trying to take products and systems apart, whittle them down to their core …
The overall content of the Tesla Battery Day presentation might have been overwhelming for those who do not have a technical background in battery development. The level of abstraction that Elon Musk and Drew Baglino presented relative to Tesla’s battery tech was surprisingly low, even though I’m sure they thought their presentation was just an overview.
After chatting with Tesla CEO Elon Musk about the breadth, depth, and size of Tesla’s Autopilot team, we slipped into another matter, “the machine that builds the machine.”
