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When you exceed your sales target, the thing you did was set your target incorrectly. It's great that they're selling lots of cars, but "exceeded the target" is a wholly artificial accomplishment.
I love how this readership is spending all of its cycles discussing whether or not the software hack which will allow Tesla to ship a car they aren't going to build. Rather than the fact that they actually surpassed their production goals and have, for the moment, proven a lot of people wrong. People who were held up as the experts in what it takes to create a new car that people will buy and what won't cut it. So th…
Hacker News is more focused on the technical hacks than on the business side? Well, I never!
I love how this readership is spending all of its cycles discussing whether or not the software hack which will allow Tesla to ship a car they aren't going to build. Rather than the fact that they actually surpassed their production goals and have, for the moment, proven a lot of people wrong. People who were held up as the experts in what it takes to create a new car that people will buy and what won't cut it. So th…
If I goes lower, say mid thirties, I will buy more.. We might be seeing the car company of the next decade or 2 in the makeing, and right now, its not really selling at a premium. (The stock, not the cars..)
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Have Tesla deliveries to Norway started? Have you seen a Model S in Oslo yet?
European production in June, and deliveries in July: http://www.teslamotors.com/fr_FR/about/press/releases/tesla-...
1) Does "production in June" probably mean that the factories become operational in June?
2) If so, is 1-2 months a normal amount of time for producing a car? How does it compare to the amount of time needed for other types of cars?
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Maybe the other way round. I consider it good engineering (why waste an entirely separate production process to make a lower-grade version, when most of it can be shared?), but people are irrationally led to believe they are entitled to the full thing, just because it's potentially there. Proof of this is that if no one told you, you would not even suspect anything at all. If you want to "unlock" your car to get that…
This is not about entitlement, and destroying value is not a wise thing to do for short term economic gains. I think it's pretty obvious and intuitive that even in CPUs, this kind of design is a failure of imagination and exploitative to the market, both supply and demand. I couldn't say that it's something to make illegal in this exact execution, but the same actions could be a huge negative PR hit in different circ…
So... are you legally allowed to have root on a $60k car you paid for? Can we replace "cell phones" with "cars" in this whitehouse statement? [1] The White House agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that consumers should be able to unlock their cell phones without risking criminal or other penalties. ps. it's ironic that a software limited battery like that is going to last a lot longer than unrestricted deple…
(The FAA says no.)
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Isn't that shorter range what they pre-ordered/paid for?
It is. While the pricing model makes sense from a rational perspective, it just doesn't fit well with most people's emotions about fairness. When you get to the end of the charge on your 40kwh model, you know that the car is capable of 50% more - but you are not allowed to because you haven't paid Tesla an extra $10k. It's similar to airline pricing. It makes rational sense to sell early seats at lower cost, and incr…
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This is not about entitlement, and destroying value is not a wise thing to do for short term economic gains. I think it's pretty obvious and intuitive that even in CPUs, this kind of design is a failure of imagination and exploitative to the market, both supply and demand. I couldn't say that it's something to make illegal in this exact execution, but the same actions could be a huge negative PR hit in different circ…
It would have not cost anyone more ink or paper to make this 1$ bill into a 100$ bill, and I would have been happier if that were the case, oh why is everyone in the world so against me? In other words, the process that leads to the production of a good or service is not what you pay for, what you pay for is the end product: if you pay for a battery with a capacity of 40kWh, that's what you get, and if you have the o…