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Sure you can. That's the exact definition of "refinancing".
You may be paying off the note and it shows up as a different line item on the balance sheet, but it's not paying the debt.
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I'm curious. How is what was flippantly suggested related to securities fraud?
SEC regulates crypto currency issuances now.
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It can take 30 years to break even. It's attached to a house , which will be around at least that long. When you sell that house in the future, it's STILL worth $2500 a year off the electricity bill. The house buyer will be willing to pay more for the house for that; if they keep the house for five years, they will have spent $12500 less on electricity, and they'll still have an electric roof to sell to the next buye…
What will the power generation capacity of that roof be after so much time? Don't solar panels wear out?
Let's talk about Solar City. Their product is intended to be a solar roof, indistinguishable from a typical roof from street level. Costs look to be in the $50,000+ range. The marketing is that homeowners will not only drive electric vehicles, but go completely off grid by storing the energy collected into Tesla batteries. In order for this to make financial sense, there needs to be an ROI for the homeowner. So... ho…
Solar doesn't make sense for me in other ways too... when I average my electricity usage over the year, it is around $98 per month for a family of 4, 2300 sqft home, in Arizona. If I go with solar city my bill would be $120 and I would be in a lease for 20 years. Nah...
Forget about buying the equipment myself as well due to the reasons above. The time that would be required to recoup the "investment" just isn't worth the hassle.
Let's talk about Solar City. Their product is intended to be a solar roof, indistinguishable from a typical roof from street level. Costs look to be in the $50,000+ range. The marketing is that homeowners will not only drive electric vehicles, but go completely off grid by storing the energy collected into Tesla batteries. In order for this to make financial sense, there needs to be an ROI for the homeowner. So... ho…
Let's talk about Solar City. Their product is intended to be a solar roof, indistinguishable from a typical roof from street level. Costs look to be in the $50,000+ range. The marketing is that homeowners will not only drive electric vehicles, but go completely off grid by storing the energy collected into Tesla batteries. In order for this to make financial sense, there needs to be an ROI for the homeowner. So... ho…
Homeowners often pay extra for aesthetics that appeal to them. But lets pretend they don't. How quickly does a normal roof recoup its costs? For at least the beginnings of a fair comparison, you should look at recouping the surplus over the normal cost of a roof. Also, how are you spending $25k on batteries? This sort of comment seems to attempt to try to take the most negative reasonable possible look on the situati…
If tesla can get 500,000 cars out there, ICE cars are toast. Enough of legacy cars and makers.
If Tesla can pump out 500K globally, that's respectable, but hardly a death knell to the 80 million unit industry.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-auto-sales-20...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/200002/international-car...
Tesla sold $1.8 billion of eight-year unsecured bonds at a yield of 5.30 percent. That's considered junk bond level today. Historically, it's not a bad interest rate. It's an OK deal for Tesla.
Shorts take note: Tesla has access to dumb capital that you haven't necessarily factored into your models.
If there are any college student hackers interested in pushing boundaries MHacks is going to allow you to hack a Tesla this September in Ann Arbor.
The mhacks.org site could use some work though:
- no password reset
- you lose your profile after saving it and re-navigating