Imagine a situation where you have a new 800V infrastructure already applied to cybertruck and decide to update the Model Y with just “minor” adjustments. Which means that both M3 and MY will get 800V/48V when? 2/3 years minimum.
It recalls me a Nokia moment.
Meanwhile China is running.
Change it to who?
Their price to earnings is like 100x. The entire market cap is built by Elon's non-stop hyping of FSD / Robo-Taxi / etc. We gunna resurrect Billy Mays here to do the marketing?
The entire executive office is just dumping their Tesla stock, they know the company has no value and if they get rid of Musk it's probably a nail in the coffin for the stock price.
Not a good long term strategy.
Maybe that‘s the reason for Musk‘s turn into politics.
Use his power as long as it exists
Market cap is defined by whatever stock buyers decide to justify their purchase. If people keep buying the stock to get it to the moon because of whatever hype, what else matters?
... and we would probably have been spared Trump
OK, what false claims did crypto make to justify its valuation? What false claims did tulips make?
What if a large part of the stock market is more people gambling or FOMO herd mentality rather than calculated choices? You don't have to justify stock valuations the same way you can't rationalize peoples' behavior and that's what stock values reflect. Just stay way from high risk meme stocks.
>Tesla’s stock price massively benefited
You mean the investors have benefited. Which is why they invested in Tesla stock to begin with.
You stop the seller from pumping up the stock price based on lies.
It's already significantly off its peak, and Musk is now so unpopular because of his political interventions that people are firebombing Tesla dealerships and vandalizing the cars. I can't really see how that's going to be good marketing.
The people who should worry about the marketing problem here are the Democrats. They're directly funding this violence and vandalism via their NGO network, don't seem to be condemning it and it's their inverted rhetoric claiming Republicans are Nazis that has now created a left-wing street army physically attacking anyone who supports the opposition: exactly the tactics used in the Weimar Republic. Irony is surely dead.
Also, a lot of the people getting vandalized or pressured to inconveniently sell their car at a loss are Democrats themselves, many of whom will certainly be wondering why they're supporting the team that would directly attack innocent people in such horrible ways.
It's unlikely Musk would care even if Tesla really suffered. His biographies make it clear enough. Getting rich has never been what motivated him, and he owns private companies that are basically terrorism-proof. They spin off enough money to sustain his often rather spartan lifestyle in any case. All these attacks will do is build sympathy for him, for the right, and radicalize them still further.
Also, not sure what the whole 800v hype is about. I rent EVs for roadtrips and Tesla's are basically the fastest charging ones with current architecture, haven't had a need for 800v since at the cell level the charging speed is already maxed out.
Re: the Y, even though they won't sell because some hand gestures and behaviors, they did almost every complaint people have about the old model Y.
And there exist countries outside Tesla‘s supercharger network.
It’s clearly better, but far from key factor. Efficiency usually dictates overall trip duration.