This article was inspired by a CleanTechnica commenter who dropped question #1 under a recent CleanTechnica article. For sure, the ~33 questions below should have been asked on the Tesla financials call last night — these are the really important ones. Alas, it was not a good day. Now that the commotion is over, perhaps Elon will find some time to answer some of them on Twitter.
The big news from Tesla in Q3 2018 is that the company was profitable for only the fourth time in its history. That was enough to send its share price higher in after-hour trading, but there was more good news.
Tesla has just published its Q3 shareholder letter, which is an absolute blowout. It is far better than even our supposedly “optimistic” forecast. The bullet-point highlights are as follows:
Despite intense media scrutiny around all things Tesla, Tesla’s Model 3 has maintained its status as the #1 best selling car in the US in terms of revenue. That goes for both September and all of Q3.
According to a government filing made today in Shanghai, Tesla intends to produce two models at its Chinese Gigafactory in the factory’s first phase — Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3.
Longtime Tesla short firm Citron Research has totally flipped on Tesla [TSLA]. It has gotten straight from its position shorting the stock all the way on over to a comfortable long position in the stock, according to a report issued by the firm today. The longtime shorter of Tesla’s stock issued a multi-page report to justify its change of heart, citing numerous charts from CleanTechnica in support of the change — well, four charts out of the 18 we published on Sunday.
Tesla is moving its earnings call from the beginning of November to Wednesday, October 24. This is going to be a historic earnings call for Tesla for multiple reasons. During last quarter’s earnings call, CleanTechnica got the chance to ask some questions as well. While there is no guarantee that we will get that chance again, we are hopeful and this time we have been preparing.
Sandy Munro and his team at Munro and Associates have been tearing cars down for decades. As legacy gas and diesel powertrains are being replaced by electrified versions and new electric car companies continue to sprout (seemingly every other day), Munro and Associates are putting their experience to work tearing down the latest and greatest electric cars.
Tesla rolled out version 9.0 of its in-car firmware a few days ago, which included the new Dashcam feature. Dashcam takes advantage of the built-in cameras that come with the car to allow drivers to actively record video onto a properly configured USB drive. As it’s not just plug and play, we will take you through the process of getting the new DashCam setup. Let’s get started!
Tesla gets its fair share of lumps for numerous automotive service and repair outages that have popped up as it has ramped up deliveries of the Model 3 in recent months, but it is worth remembering that Tesla has transformed service and continues to “wow” most of its service customers.
