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dr-alex-zarifis · 7 months

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Why is Tesla selling insurance and what does it mean for drivers?

Re-published under Creative Commons license, originally published in ‘The Conversation’: https://theconversation.com/why-is-tesla-selling-insurance-and-what-does-it-mean-for-drivers-130910

In the past year, Elon Musk and Tesla have fascinated the world with new innovations like the Tesla Cybertruck. There is excitement about most new Tesla products, but one hugely important one has been largely overlooked. With far less fanfare and no stage performance by Musk, Tesla started offering car insurance last September. In the long run, this is going to have a major impact on most of our lives – perhaps even greater than Tesla’s more eye-catching innovations.

Tesla Insurance is only available for Tesla vehicles in some states of the US at present. It will expand the number of territories gradually over time. But as with the Tesla Cybertruck, the company first wants to see how the business holds up to whatever is thrown at it and whether it cracks under pressure.

For those eligible for Tesla Insurance, the company claims to offer premiums 20% to 30% lower than rivals. Yet even if you are in an area where you can request a quote, Tesla won’t necessarily make you an offer. It sometimes still refers drivers to a traditional insurance partner instead. It may be that Tesla chooses the clearer, less risky cases and sends more complex ones to insurers with more experience and appetite to handle them.

So why is Tesla selling car insurance? For one thing, it has the real-time data from all its drivers’ behaviour and the performance of its vehicle technology, including camera recordings and sensor readings, so it can estimate the risk of accidents and repair costs accurately. This reliance on data may well mean it never branches into selling insurance to drivers of other manufacturers’ cars.

At the moment, Tesla is offering insurance premiums calculated with aggregated anonymous data. In future it could roll out more customised services, like the ones offered by insurers using telematic black boxes, to offer drivers (cheaper) quotes based on how they actually drive.

Every time there is an accident, Tesla has instant access to data about the driver behaviour that led to it. One attraction for the company is that it can evaluate how some of its technologies, like autopilot, stability control, anti-theft systems and bullet-resistant steel, can reduce risk.

Another motivation for Tesla is that some insurers charge a relatively high premium for Tesla cars. One reason is that they still don’t have much historic information about the cost of repairs of electric vehicles. By vertically integrating insurance into its offering, Tesla brings down the price of owning its products.

At the same time, insurance is a barrier to many innovations that Tesla is targeting for the future. With the insurance taken care of, it will be easier to sell self-driving vehicles or send people to Mars (with sister company SpaceX). Like many things Elon Musk does, this both solves a short-term problem and fits the longer-term strategy. It’s a little like how Tesla focused on producing luxury vehicles first to finance the infrastructure for selling cheaper cars like the Tesla Model 3.

How insurance is changing

Tesla has one more reason for offering insurance, which is that the sector is changing: a tech company disrupting it fits the zeitgeist perfectly. My research at Loughborough University has looked into this disruption. I evaluated 32 insurance providers around the world including Tesla and found that artificial intelligence, big data, the internet of things, blockchain and edge computing were all rewiring insurance, both literally and metaphorically.

Broadly speaking, the work of the insurer is shifting from local human expert underwriters to automation driven by big data and AI. The existing industry players that I evaluated essentially fell into three categories. Some had recognised they cannot compete with tech companies. They were focusing on interacting with customers, branding and marketing, while outsourcing everything else to companies with the relevant skills.

Other insurers were trying to add new technologies to their existing business model. For instance, some are using chatbots that apply machine learning and natural language processing to offer live customer support. Yet another group had more fully embraced the new technological capabilities. For example, life insurers like Vitality and Bupa now encourage customers to use wearable monitoring devices to offer them guidance on improving their health and avoiding accidents.

Alongside all these were the new breed of insurers, with Tesla perhaps the best example. Others include Chinese giants Alibaba and Tencent. Just like Apple and Google are making incursions into banking and finance, these are tech-savvy companies with many existing customers who are adding insurance to their portfolio of services. In every case, the capabilities of AI and big data-driven automation have acted as a catalyst.

What it means for drivers

In the short term, Tesla drivers can look forward to insurance that is arguably more seamless and convenient and may well be cheaper – particularly if they clock up fewer miles and drive safely. (Drivers should still compare prices with other insurers: the likes of Progressive and GEICO are among those that insure Tesla vehicles.)

In the longer term, this is a sign that insurance – like banking, road tax and many services – will be driven by real-time data. It will probably change our behaviour for the better. We will probably drive slower, eat healthier food and exercise more – even if libertarians will be uneasy.

This shift will challenge our attitudes towards personal information privacy. Some of us will value the benefits of being open and transparent with our personal information, while others might seek solutions that keep their data with them. Edge computing has potential here, since it allows some data processing to be done on your device so that your personal data doesn’t need to be sent to a central server.

So Tesla and Elon Musk have not just added another revenue stream to their many successful endeavours. They are also helping to fundamentally change the way that we interact with insurance providers. In the future, insurers will be more like a partner on our journey both by car and on foot – both on Earth and beyond.

#finance #sales #insurance #tesla

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sellmyelectricvehicle · 8 months

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dertaglichedan · 10 months

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No one except the state wants them. And who cares what consumers or shareholders want? Not Ford.

Back in March, I wrote that, “Ford reported that it’s going to lose $3 billion on electric cars in 2023. Unlike most automakers, Ford reports its electric vehicle numbers separately, but experts estimate that most car companies are losing similar amounts on the dead end business.”

“Ford plans to make 2 million electric cars every year by 2025. That would be impressive considering that Ford only sold 61,575 of them in 2022. It sold 3,624 electric vehicles in Feb 2023.”

And the numbers just keep getting worse. It’s now a loss of $4.5 billion.

Ford said the higher loss projection for Ford Model e reflected “the pricing environment, disciplined investments in new products and capacity, and other costs.” Ford also now expects to reach a 600,000-unit EV production run rate during 2024, instead of the end of this year, on the way to achieving a 2 million annual run rate.

The pricing environment is that prices keep rising. How exactly is that hurting Ford? The Biden administration and China and California have conspired to price real cars out of the reach of consumers. And yet Ford still can’t sell electric cars at a time when Tesla is moving them.

***Bud light hold my beer. Wait, does that work?

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jcmarchi · 7 months

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MIT startup has big plans to pull carbon from the air

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/mit-startup-has-big-plans-to-pull-carbon-from-the-air/

MIT startup has big plans to pull carbon from the air

In order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the United Nations has said we’ll need to not only reduce emissions but also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. One method for achieving carbon removal is direct air capture and storage. Such technologies are still in their infancy, but many efforts are underway to scale them up quickly in hopes of heading off the most catastrophic effects of climate change.

The startup Noya, founded by Josh Santos ’14, is working to accelerate direct-air carbon removal with a low-power, modular system that can be mass manufactured and deployed around the world. The company plans to power its system with renewable energy and build its facilities near injection wells to store carbon underground.

Using third-party auditors to verify the amount of carbon dioxide captured and stored, Noya is selling carbon credits to help organizations reach net-zero emissions targets.

“Think of our systems for direct air capture like solar panels for carbon negativity,” says Santos, who formerly played a role in Tesla’s much-publicized manufacturing scale-up for its Model 3 electric sedan. “We can stack these boxes in a LEGO-like fashion to achieve scale in the field.”

The three-year old company is currently building its first commercial pilot facility, and says its first full-scale commercial facility will have the capacity to pull millions of tons of carbon from the air each year. Noya has already secured millions of dollars in presales to help build its first facilities from organizations including Shopify, Watershed, and a university endowment.

Santos says the ambitious approach, which is driven by the urgent need to scale carbon removal solutions, was influenced by his time at MIT.

“I need to thank all of my MIT professors,” Santos says. “I don’t think any of this would be possible without the way in which MIT opened up my horizons by showing me what’s possible when you work really hard.”

Finding a purpose

Growing up in the southeastern U.S., Santos says he first recognized climate change as an issue by experiencing the increasing intensity of hurricanes in his neighborhood. One year a hurricane forced his family to evacuate their town. When they returned, their church was gone.

“The storm left a really big mark on me and how I thought about the world,” Santos says. “I realized how much climate change can impact people.”

When Santos came to MIT as an undergraduate, he took coursework related to climate change and energy systems, eventually majoring in chemical engineering. He also learned about startups through courses he took at the MIT Sloan School of Management and by taking part in MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), which exposed him to researchers in the early stages of commercializing research from MIT labs.

More than the coursework, though, Santos says MIT instilled in him a desire to make a positive impact on the world, in part through a four-day development workshop called LeaderShape that he took one January during the Institute’s Independent Activities Period (IAP).

“LeaderShape teaches students how to lead with integrity, and the core lesson is that any privilege you have you should try to leverage to improve the lives of other people,” Santos says. “That really stuck with me. Going to MIT is a huge privilege, and it makes me feel like I have a responsibility to put that privilege to work to the betterment of society. It shaped a lot of how I view my career.”

After graduation, Santos worked at Tesla, then at Harley Davidson, where he worked on electric powertrains. Eventually he decided electric vehicle technology couldn’t solve climate change on its own, so in the spring of 2020 he founded Noya with friend Daniel Cavaro.

The initial idea for Noya was to attach carbon capture devices to cooling towers to keep equipment costs low. The founders pivoted in response to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 because their machines weren’t big enough to qualify for the new tax credits in the law, which required each system to capture at least 1,000 tons of CO2 per year.

Noya’s new systems will combine thousands of its modular units to create massive facilities that can capture millions of tons of CO2 right next to existing injection wells.

Each of Noya’s units is about the size of a solar panel at about 6 feet wide, 4.5 feet tall, and 1 foot thick. A fan blows air through tiny channels in each unit that contain Noya’s carbon capture material. The company’s material solution consists of an activated carbon monolith and a proprietary chemical feedstock that binds to the carbon in the air. When the material becomes saturated with carbon, electricity is applied to the material and a light vacuum collects a pure stream of carbon.

The goal is for each of Noya’s modules to remove about 60 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year.

“Other direct air capture companies need a big hot piece of equipment — like an oven, steam generator, or kiln — that takes electricity and converts it to get heat to the material,” Santos says. “Any lost heat into the surrounding environment is excess cost. We skip the need for the excess equipment and their inefficiencies by adding the electricity directly to the material itself.”

Scaling with urgency

From its office in Oakland, California, Noya is putting an experimental module through tests to optimize its design. Noya will launch its first testing facility, which should remove about 350 tons of CO2 per year, in 2024. It has already secured renewable energy and injection storage partners for that facility. Over the next few years Noya plans to capture and remove thousands of tons of CO2, and the company’s first commercial-scale facility will aim to remove about 3 million tons of carbon annually.

“That design is what we’ll replicate across the world to grow our planetary impact,” Santos says. “We’re trying to scale up as fast as possible.”

Noya has already sold all of the carbon credits it expects to generate in its first five years, and the founders believe the growing demand from companies and governments to purchase high-quality carbon credits will outstrip supply for at least the next 10 years in the nascent carbon removal industry, which also includes approaches like enhanced rock weathering, biomass carbon storage, and ocean alkalinity enhancement.

“We’re going to need something like 30 companies the size of Shell to achieve the scale we need,” Santos says. “I think there will be large companies in each of those verticals. We’re in the early innings here.”

Santos believes the carbon removal market can scale without government mandates, but he also sees increasing government and public support for carbon removal technologies around the world.

“Carbon removal is a waste management problem,” Santos says. “You can’t just throw trash in the middle of the street. The way we currently deal with trash is polluters pay to clean up their waste. Carbon removal should be like that. CO2 is a waste product, and we should have regulations in place that are requiring polluters, like businesses, to clean up their waste emissions. It’s a public good to provide cleaner air.”

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kylie1976 · 8 months

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Everything There is To Know About Tesla Price Cuts

In the end of 2022, Tesla started cutting prices and basically never stopped. Except for $250 price hike in May of 2023.

Price of a car is very important, considering that buying it just a day late might mean savings of thousands of dollars. So in this article I want to explore Tesla’s price policy, and even if it’s impossible to predict what they will do next, we can at least discuss the trend itself and try to guess direction of prices in the future.

Price cuts to Model 3 and Model Y

While it is normal for previous years’ models to go on sale, Tesla did something they’ve never done before. They cut prices on Model 3 and Model Y by as much as $5000. This is the difference between initial higher price and current price of the Model 3. Sometimes prices go up, sometimes they go down, but the trend seems that Tesla is slashing prices on its two most popular cars.

One possible explanation is that the manufacturer is looking to offload existing stock before 2024 Model 3 and Model Y hit the market. We still don't know about Tesla Model Y 2024 release date, but it should be sometime in late 2024.

Still, steep price cuts suggest that Tesla is trying to move as many cars as possible, possibly to leverage economies of scale (as well as some tweaks to the design) to minimize manufacturing costs and still make profit.

At one point, Standard 2023 RWD Model 3 was down to $39,990. This is very affordable, considering the range, speed, and overall quality of the car. Additional $7500 tax credit meant that customers could get new Model 3 for nearly the same price as new Camry.

Price cutting seems to be an universal policy across different regions. In China, Tesla cut prices on Model Y and Model 3 by as much as $2000 (or equivalent in Yuan).

After several price cuts, Tesla increased prices by insignificant amounts to give the illusion of volatility of prices. However, I remain convinced that the EV automaker intends to cut prices as much as they can to move more units.

September 2023 price cuts to Model S and Model X

Few days ago, Tesla took a drastic step and cut prices on their Model S and Model X cars by tens of thousands of dollars. You read that right, they cut prices by 10s of thousands of dollars.

Needless to say, this angered a lot of Tesla fans who had recently bought a Model S or Model X. Once again, price cuts were universal to both Chinese and North American markets. Price on Model S was cut by as much as %14 and Model X price was cut by 21%. Price on the Model X is actually down 41% since September of 2022.

What’s even more impressive is that current price of Model X makes the car available for $7500 federal tax credit. All things considered, customers could get the Model X for thirty to forty thousand dollars cheaper than they could last year. This type of discount is not normal, and suggests that Tesla may be up to something.

My guess is that Tesla plans to retire S and X, perhaps to make room for the Cybertruck. It should be noted that the 2024 Model 3 looks a lot like Tesla Model S, both inside and out. These changes suggest that Tesla plans to absorb Model S into the Model 3, and focus on making new cars.

Are price cuts a sign of trouble?

Price cuts have sparked a debate in the community of Tesla shareholders and enthusiasts about whether price cuts are a sign of trouble. One justification was that Tesla only cut prices because it couldn’t sell Models X and S otherwise. That may be true, but they could sell it at steadier pace, or cut prices by few percent. Huge discounts are more likely to be caused by changes in strategy. I still think Tesla is planning to move on from these two cars and wants to get rid of its inventory so it can focus on new beginnings.

Price cuts are also a sign that the automaker is looking to streamline its production. Whether Tesla keeps going with these two models remains to be seen, but they’ve repeatedly confirmed their commitment to streamlining and efficient design.

Possible results of price cuts

Whether they intend or not, reducing prices to increase demand is a good strategy for everyone involved. Tesla gets to sell more cars, make more money and further improve the cars’ efficiency and design. Customers get better electric vehicles for a reduced prices, and every EV purchase means one less ICE car on the road.

In the end, cutting prices is probably beneficial for the environment. However, we still need to keep tesla accountable Tesla for its work environment, sourcing of materials, and overall efficiency of their production.

Tesla claimed Model Y was the best selling car of 2022. That may be an exaggeration, but it shows that company is geared towards moving more electric vehicles to consumers.

Conclusion

More than anything, Tesla price cuts are an indicator of the direction the company is heading. Tesla faces steep competition in markets like China and needs to drive costs to a minimum to be profitable. Tesla brand is still incredibly valuable, despite Elon’s PR nightmare in recent months. People love Tesla brand and want to buy these cars, especially for an affordable price. However, Tesla must get their act together in regards to full self driving and meeting deadlines for building certain cars.

If you like news about EVs, read my review of Black vs white interior in Tesla cars.

#tesla

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ecodweeb · 1 year

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Dudley the Cat: An Electric Rescue Transport Tale

People who do transports for rescue pets are a special kind of people. We are gritty, resourceful, resilient, and above all patient. What we thought would be a fun day that started with an IKEA trip and ended with a happy adopter turned into an experience that I won’t soon forget. Buckle up, this story’s about one of the more mentally challenging transports I’ve done, but let me preface with: none of my stress came from locating or using charging stations, at least not until the home stretch...

Dudley’s original route had me picking him up in Charlotte (164mi from home), which is where our local IKEA is. We are in need of a Lack floating shelf, and I’m always slowly replacing all the plastic food containers with IKEA glassware ones. My bestie Brad decided to tag along, and he was considering a small desk if it’d fit in the car with the carrier. Unfortunately, as we rolled out the door just after 9:30 in the morning on Saturday the 11th, we had no idea that we were not going to go anywhere near IKEA today...

About 20 minutes before we reached the Siler City Smithfield Chicken-n-BBQ, a location with a ChargePoint 62kW Charging station, my phone rang. I answered and it was Joan, the transporter ahead of the guy I was to meet in Charlotte. She tells me that the transport is already running a half hour late because the shelter staff were late opening up today and that the driver who was meeting her in Hickory to drive the cat to Charlotte has had a family emergency and cannot continue the trip. She asks me if we could meet somewhere between Asheville and Charlotte, and she happened to suggest Statesville. I said let me do some gameplanning and I’ll call you back.

I cancelled the nav and told Google to take me to the Electrify America in Statesville. We were just under 2 hours away from there, with ample range. We glanced at the EA app, all 4 stations show as working and available (being a Saturday, I worried about stations filling up - what a silly worry that was in retrospect). I called Joan and told her we were headed to Statesville and that I’d text her an address and the name of the restaurant we were headed to. We arrived to one station in use, and a Polestar plugging into the other 150kW station. A 350kW it is, and I said a small prayer that no eGMP platform Hyundai or Kia shows up and wants to say something about a slow car using their charger... The Polestar was either unhappy with the charging speed, or maybe they had a problem, but they got out of the car as I pulled up and moved to the other 350kW stall to charge.

We placed a to-go order online with the restaurant, it was ready and waiting when we arrived. We had about a half hour between our arrival and when Joan would arrive with Dudley - which was about the time the car said it’d take to reach 80%. The cat hit 80% right as Joan pulled up, we got Dudley situated in my car and she asked a few questions about my car. She said that when I told her we were plugged in an eating, she expected to see a Tesla, and the all-to-commonly heard “I didn’t even know Hyundai made a fully electric car.” I told her they make three, but only two are actively available as the third just started production, and that Kia sells three models, and Genesis has one model. She was very surprised to find this out, and I suspect she might have gone home to go some Googling about the cars after she got home.

We chatted long enough to add 3% more to the battery, and I said we needed to get going as we knew we had rain we were going to encounter, and I didn’t want to add to my already super-long day by getting caught in an accident backup. Did I mention that I was wearing shorts and flip flops? I didn’t catch that the temp was going to be dropping with the rain in the forecast, and this was going to prove to be my biggest mistake yet.

The drive to Columbia was painless with the Lane Keep Assist and Active Cruise Control. Dudley was rather quiet, he’d wake up and chatter for a few minutes and then settle back down and sleep. We called Joan, and Kim who arranged this whole thing, to let them know what’s going on. We made it to Columbia right on time and charged for 35m to 80% and took off. It had started to rain when we arrived in Columbia, and the dark skies were a mere omen of what was to come. This was the only stop where my tried-and-true start the charger from Android Auto didn’t work. I had to plug in first, then the station responded to the app request to start a charge. Usually it will switch to a “Plug in here” screen, but today it wasn’t wanting to cooperate that way.

Dudley was, in hindsight, a good luck charm. By the time we reached Pooler - which the GPS took me to the middle of town and not the Walmart where the chargers are like I’d asked it - we were below 10% state of charge. It’s only 160-miles from Columbia to Pooler, but our efficiency had dropped from 4.1mi/kWh to 3.8mi/kWh. We plugged in and handed Dudley off to Ronda, who was taking him on the next leg to his adopters. Brad decided this was the stop that he was going to go into the Walmart and walk around because we had a solid 45 minutes before we would be charged up enough to go to Lumberton. Inside we bought a car towel (a towel that stays in the car), a hot dog for me, some waters, and he bought a hoodie. Neither of us had brought cold weather clothes because... it was 72F yesterday. We forgot it was false spring in the south!

Once we hit 80% we unplugged and headed north. It was between Pooler and Florence that I realized we had a very strong headwind (15-20mph sustained based on Windy app’s historical data, with gusts up to 40mph). We were not going to make it to Lumberton, as our efficiency had further dropped to 3.5 since we’d left Pooler. Ok, no worries, we’ll stop in Florence and top off and then make it home -- it’s only 155 miles. Yeah, well, best laid plans...

We left with a 31 mile buffer and by the time we’d passed our last exit with a charging station on I-95, we had a 5 mile or less buffer. Once we hit I-40 I killed the climate control to add 3 more miles and re-routed from home to the EVgo off Highway 64 that’s about 4 miles from my house. Plugshare showed it was in use, but I figured by the time we got there in an hour it would be free. Unless it’s broken and reporting in use, so I asked Google to show me charging stations neaby and that was less than helpful as I hadn’t picked the plugs in my preferences so it was showing me lots of Tesla stuff that I can’t use.

As the range estimate drops to within 1 mile of the miles to destination counter, I opened EVgos app to see the status of that station. Much to my surprise, despite having written about it in the state of charge report, the app showed two stations in Garner as available. Fantastic, they’re only 18 miles away vs the 28 miles to the other one and we’re at 27 miles of range left. As soon as I exited I-40 and got onto 70, I defrosted the windows and then turned the heat back off. At 8% we got the low battery warning (which, to me, is really really really low to be giving a first warning), but the cruise control didn’t disengage. At 5% the car went into turtle mode, and I was being very gentle with the throttle. Did I mention the temp had plunged from 41F to 36F? Oh, and the rain had picked up too. It was miserable outside -- and I’ve got flipflops on, remember.

I pulled into the parking lot, I can’t find the chargers. I pulled up plugshare and tapped the pin to get GPS coordinates. We go to the other side of the parking lot. I still see no chargers. This parking lot is also exceptionally dark with no lightning whatsoever. It was about this time that Brad woke up, he’d been asleep since 10pm and it was now almost 2am, and he assisted me in trying to figure out where in the parking lot these chargers were before the car ran out of charge entirely. Keep in mind, first long trip with this car so while I expected something like this, I didn’t expect these exact circumstances.

Thankfully Plugshare users took lots of photos and I was able to see the stores in the background of the stations. I asked google to take me to Sally Beauty, it wanted to send me to one 7 miles away. I asked about another business, again it was 4 miles away. Finally I said “where is gamestop?” and it said 300ft away! YES. Ok. Turns out the stations were on the other side of the Ford we’d stopped next to. The lot was so dark, the rain was so intense, that we couldn’t see them. I pulled up and plugged in, having taken my keys with me so I can use my ChargePoint RFID card to start the machine. Except this is a new Delta charger I’ve never seen before, and none of the locations that look like they’d accept a phone or card tap are working. I open the EVgo app, I don’t have a payment method attached to my account and the only option is a credit card - no Google Pay, No PayPal, just manually enter a credit card. At this point I cursed outloud and the guy who was smoking leaning against the door of one of the stores in this strip mall looked up then went back to his deadscrolling.

I opened the ChargePoint app, and it immediately had the named charger I was plugged into pulled up. I tap start charge, and I hear the machine make a thunk sound as a relay opened. The screen moved from how to pay to initializing. I said a thank you prayer, hopped back in the car, and cranked the heat to 78 to thaw my poor feet. I wasn’t taking any chances, even though we were only 9.6 miles from my driveway I charged until it estimated 40 miles and then we left. We pulled into the driveway at 2:32am. Exhausted. Frustrated. But also thankful that we didn’t have a flat tire, we didn’t end up needing a tow truck, and that really everything worked out -- I also know what the limitations of the car are in some of the worst possible conditions.

After sleeping a solid 8 hours, and eating some food and watching Transport Evolved’s News Roundup program, and lamenting the EVgo experience ... my husband pointed out all the good things about this trip. We were not one of the many vehicles we saw spin off the road and need a tow truck. We didn’t get a flat. We didn’t end up getting stranded, and honestly 4% isn’t as low as I’ve rolled up to a charger before. So all in all, a win. Especially when I got this photo of Dudley with his new dad.

Final Thoughts

I think about what could I have done different to have made this better. One of the thing is letting the car take the additional 20 minutes to get to 90%. If we’d waited to 90% in Florence, the storm would have been a little farther ahead of us and perhaps the wind wouldn’t have been as bad. At a minimum the panic of finding a last minute charging station (and, hey, what a miracle one was there that I needed that wasn’t there 6 months ago) would have been avoided. So I will now rethink my trip strategy with the Kona, and I also realized that because it’s “so slow” to charge that I’m not limited to Electrify America’s network -- we’d intended to start this trip off using a ChargePoint. However, I partake in a lot of consumer surveys and put all the visa gift card balances into my Electrify America wallet. I haven’t actually paid for a charge with them since October of 2022, and I have over $50 left in my account wallet after this trip.

Speaking of cost, the total cost in DC charging on this trip came to $55.46 with an additional $6.97 to refill the battery from my home charger. Over 793 miles we had 6 charging stops: Statesville (43m, 33kWh, $10.39), Columbia (36m, 32kWh, $10.61), Pooler (51m, 53kWh, $6.61 - this location billed by time), Walterboro (33m, 27kWh, $9.04), Florence (43m, 40kWh, $13.39), and Garner (EVgo, 14m, 13kWh, $5.42). Every single station we plugged into worked on the first plug in attempt, and only two (Columbia and Garner) deviated from the normal/quick procedure to start a charge - but they started nonetheless.

It was a long day for a good cause, and even with the headaches at the end of the route I was smiling about having been part of another rescue effort. I have greatly missed doing this as most of the groups I worked with folded during Covid, and this is probably the first transport I’ve done in over two years. Here’s hoping the next one is a lot shorter, something more like 400 miles round trip...

Someone is going to read this and think “man this would have been much faster in a gas car,” and that’s probably true. It also would have cost a lot more, and frankly I needed a day with my best friend cracking jokes and smiling as only we can do on a long road trip. Despite the panic towards the end, for the most part this trip was enjoyable and rejuvenated my soul. I’ve come to expect that nothing in my life is going to go smooth or according to plan, being a Memphian I was born with the grit, tenacity, and agility to see these situations through. Besides, this was a transport for a cat -- taking it from North Carolina to Georgia -- nothing about this would seem right, normal, or sane to anyone who considers themselves any of those adjectives.

#2023

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nityarawal · 1 year

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12/7/22

To Boys Club (Selling Data)

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doing notes for my full media project for this week <3

Here's the playlist I'm listening to while I do this work ! the rest of the project will most likely be posted to here as well :)

RESEARCH

What is tesla ?

Tesla is the pioneer electric car company

Originally founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 03, the company merged with Elon Musk and JB Straubel when problems arose preventing them from creating cars which run off renewable resources

Their objective, after making these electric cars, was to demonstrate their ability to compete with elite sports cars

Tesla have managed to overtake many other companies from their marketing strategies

Why choose electric cars ?

As the state of the planet we live on becomes more unstable, it has become more globally apparent that climate change is real and affecting our lives

This means that many consumers are looking to change their behaviour in order to be more eco-friendly, this is due to them wanting to help save the planet

As a reaction to this many brands have also started to change how they make their products

This is especially the case when it comes to electric cars, a category in which tesla have established themselves as an ideal luxury product which many aspire to have

Tesla's Marketing Strategy

Tesla were able to sell themselves as a fashionable product in the emerging market of electric cars, from the very start

Tesla have managed to become a desire of consumers via the association of positive values with their company; which include taking risks, doing the best, constant learning, and environmental consciousness

Though Tesla doesn't pay for social media advertising campaigns, it is a company which has the best engagement in social networks (according to BrandTotal)

AD Example 1

The advertisement is about the tesla model 3. It consists of the front half of a Tesla Model 3, which goes near enough all the way across the middle third of the advertisement. This draws the consumers eye to the car in turn making it the focus of the image, which leads the consumer to be more likely to remember the product and therefore more likely to purchase the product.

The phrase ‘one for all’ is present in the top left third of the image. This is due to the Tesla Model 3 being one of the cheaper Tesla models on the market, meaning that the company can live up to this phrase to a certain extent. This is of course despite the Tesla company usually marketing to a richer demographic, which is done to make the company's product be classified as luxury products. However, with the Tesla Model 3 is a more affordable luxury for those with less money. This in itself could be seen as a marketing tactic as it develops a larger customer base – especially as the cheaper model/range was introduced after the company had already set up their status as a luxury company.

Some elements of this advert could be improved, such as having less of a focus on the wheels of the car. This would be done by moving the car further left in order to move the wheel and reflection of the wheel from the centre of the image as this is the focal point of any image that doesn’t use any extra photographical techniques in order to purposefully shift the focus of the image.

From the image you can read undertones of meaning through the use of colour. Red has been used as it is the colour of passion, and the company wants to appeal to those who are passionate about cars. However, it could also be to show that they themselves are passionate about their products, or that they are looking to instil passion about their products into the consumer. They also use the colour black which connotes having a strong character – this could be in order to reflect the values that Tesla have integrated into their company. I am to continue the use of these colours and their meanings in my own project.

#januariblues #media #media projects #Spotify #januaritp

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Some Ideas on Hot, New Electric Cars That Are Coming Soon You Need To Know

This tale is part of Plugged In, CNET's center for all points EV and the future of electrified wheelchair. Plugged In is a cost-free solution produced for plug-in crossbreeds. Please take into consideration an affiliate to always keep plug-in combinations and power cars connected to us via my e-commerce stations at eCoins.com. From car assessments to handy pointers and the newest industry updates, we've acquired you dealt with. For an in-depth appeal at our crucial field articles and industry bargain, follow me on Twitter (@JedSimpson. In simple fact, I might even produce a brand new publication. Keep tuned.). And before you go: We possess an great, helpful, and complete review of our new Ford Focus. You can easily download it below. Our upcoming message is coming quickly. Around 150 new autos along with a plug are coming to US display rooms between right now and the end of 2026. The brand new models may include the most sophisticated plug-in electricity powertrain ever established. The Model 3 will drive one of the world's second-topiest luxurious SUVs and will certainly complete straight with General Motors' Ford Focus and Chrysler Grand Prix. But is it actually the most advanced design we've ever before observed? That may be a record growth for the field -- and a record opportunity for you to either discover the ideal EV or acquire fully overloaded. Either way, if it works for you, provide it a try. Thus let's get started. You could have saw the best 12 electric cars and trucks in the US made a lot less than 20,000 miles in 2014. This is because EVs are practically being changed by what helps make the auto more reliable -- a much smarter electricity automobile through itself. Beneath are the 18 plug-in autos that I'm most appearing onward to in 2023, because they're most likely to make a smudge on the electric automobile garden. 1. Nissan LEAF SE Coming from the manufacturer: This is the Nissan LEAF SE, a luxurious car SUV, with a mid-sized drivetrain, a new roof-mounted steering wheel and an enclosed hardtop that has been improved for 20 years to give a much-needed hold in the desert. This listing consists of natural electrics and hybrids, but does not acquire in to the pots on variety, as that's coming to be much less different between pure electricity cars at roughly 225-300 miles, enough for the common driver to ask for once every few days the majority of of the opportunity. When speaking energy economic condition, there's simply no need to go over the velocity limitation to be surprised that these crossbreeds are significantly extra dependable than their fuel equivalents. And be cautious along with the old assumption that you can cut any costs I state with a tax advantage, as the complex new government tax obligation credit scores technique require some opportunity to restore the market. It seems we've begun to see the trickle-down impact that the Liberals have had. They've been caught getting Canadian inventories for months, at that point being forced to market them once the first $100 of a $1-trillion Canadian buck Canadian dollar sell has been provided.

Allow's start with GM, because it will certainly perhaps take the very most new EV spotlight in 2023. Also though Tesla is already going to steer off the street along with a best 8 automobile this year. Of course, if Tesla was to take all these brand new high rates (coming from the EV cars sold by its drivers as well as other components) and take new autos to the market before the end of the year, Tesla would have to put in a whole lot of funds to create additional like the existing development model. Cadillac Lyriq The Cadillac Lyriq sort of creeps onto my listing since it lightly hit the market in late 2022, but will actually produce its visibility understood in 2023. Currently in its 3rd month, it's obtained a incredibly solid complying with by being a excellent technique to have a good opportunity. It's a pleasant, economical, electric, and strongly reliable automobile for the daily citizen. This is most likely the very most interesting component of the whole entire assessment. This midsize SUV are going to be GM's very first motor vehicle located on the new Ultium electric battery platform, which uses exciting bag tissues in a mobile skateboard agreement somewhat than the traditional cylindrical tissues that dominate the EV field. Check For Updates vows brand-new cost aspects that can quickly be set up for charging a selection of 745 miles (1,734 kilometres). The brand-new battery is a "really powerful battery" helped make feasible through a battery-cooled lithium-ion electric battery pack. GM points out that and various other information will certainly allow Ultium to size up and down its collections. When talking about Ultium's future, Koei Tecmo is accurately centering more on the franchise at hands-down. In Japan, which was the very most highly booming country in the world for Ultium, the company's advancement method has been going on for some opportunity, and it is expected that that development will definitely carry on with the purchase of Nexon.

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August 1 Energy News — geoharvey

Opinion: ¶ “Is The Tesla Model Y The World’s Best Selling Vehicle Right Now?” • My answer is “maybe,” depending on how you measure sales and how sales of last year’s best sellers have increased or decreased. Since sales figures lag 3 to 6 months, we won’t know for sure until next year, but I’ll […]August 1 Energy News — geoharvey

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BMW i4 review: better than expected

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On the road, the 2022 BMW i4 eDrive40 looks like any other 4 Series. There’s a reason the four-door sedan with its gigantic kidney grilles and sleek roofline commands is one of the automaker’s best-selling vehicles. It looks the part of a German sedan, and the EV version of the vehicle is the fruit of the automaker’s desire to build a platform that can accept any powertrain. Except, this is the best 4 Series.

While the push for electric SUVs continues, not every driver wants to sit above cars and haul all that extra weight around. There are real competitors for the BMW sedan — namely, the Tesla Model 3, Mercedes EQE, and Polestar 2. All of these vehicles are courting the midlevel luxury buyer who’s likely looking for either something a bit more sporty than an SUV or at least something different.

Unlike its competitors, the i4 doesn’t telegraph its electric underpinnings on the road

Unlike its competitors, the i4 doesn’t telegraph its electric underpinnings on the road. Without close-up inspection of the badging, it’s just another 4 Series. Yes, the superfluous kidney grille nearly swallows the front of the sedan. But, once you get past that (both physically and mentally), the i4 is a sleek sedan with a coupe roofline that looks magnificent and defies its own specs.

Evolving platforms

The i4 — along with the more futuristic iX electric SUV — is part of the second generation of BMW EVs. After years of promising to deliver an architecture that would accept multiple powertrains, BMW has handily pulled it off. While there’s the tendency to think that this means the i4 is a compromised EV, the German automaker did something slightly amazing. The i4 drives like a proper BMW sport sedan while delivering impressive efficiency. They did all this in a package that, at the factory, could have easily been outfitted with a gas engine.

The automaker is already planning for the next stage in its EV evolution. The third phase is called the Neue Klasse. The first vehicle of the dedicated EV platform should arrive in 2025. Ahead of that, the automaker plans to have a dozen fully electric vehicles on the road globally by 2023, including EV versions of the 5 Series and X1 compact SUV.

Specs be damned touring EV

On the road, the i4 presents itself as a grand tourer. Fortunately, it has the range for most road trips. On 18-inch wheels, the EPA reports that the sedan will cover 301 miles before depleting its battery. The review vehicle offered by the automaker was sporting the larger 19-inch wheels, which the EPA states bring the range down to 282 miles. Larger wheels typically reduce a vehicle’s range.

The i4 delivered a range of 303 miles

In my real-world range test that included 50 miles of highway driving at 70 miles per hour and 50 miles of backroad and suburban driving, the i4 delivered a range of 303 miles. That’s a 21-mile increase over the EPA’s estimated range.

The battery pack itself has 83.9kWh of capacity gross and 81.5kWh of capacity that the vehicle can tap into on a daily basis.

While the vehicle is sitting on a 400-volt platform, it still manages to accept up to 200kW of power via DC fast charging, according to BMW. In our test, the i4 bested that number, charging at 210kW — again defying expectations.

It’s not as quick at replenishing its battery as the Tesla Model 3, which tops off at 250kW. But it is speedier than the Polestar 2 and Mercedes EQE, with 155kW and 170kW charge rates, respectively. Sitting solidly in the center of the pack, the i4 doesn’t wow with charging rates like the Tesla and offerings from Kia and Hyundai; however, it does combine better than anticipated range and charge rates that should squelch any road trip anxieties.

At home, the onboard charger supports level 2 AC charging at up to 11kW. BMW states that charging time from zero to 100 percent will take about 8.25 hours — more than enough time for the i4 to be ready to go in the morning.

Smart sports sedan

BMW prides itself on building the “ultimate driving machine” — a luxury German brand that puts the experience of drivers front and center. It takes the “sports” portion of sports sedan seriously, and the i4 is proof that, even as an EV, BMW wants you to be engaged. Available in two flavors, I called in the i4 eDrive40 over the more performance-driven i4 M50, the second being the first M-branded EV from the automaker.

I’ve driven the dual-motor, all-wheel-drive M50, and it definitely lives up to the M pedigree with 536 horsepower and a zero to 60 time of 3.7 seconds. But for most, the eDrive40 delivers a great driving experience without the extra oomph of a second motor.

The eDrive40 delivers a great driving experience without the extra oomph of a second motor

The rear-wheel-drive i4 has 335 horsepower and can get up to 60 miles per hour in 5.5 seconds — not record-breaking but enough to handle around 95 percent of driving scenarios. The eDrive40 starts at $55,400 while the M50 variant starts at $65,900.

On the road, the i4 eDrive40 might have the raw power of the M50, but it’s a blast on backroads in Sport mode. The rear-wheel-drive setup does offer up oversteer, especially if the traction control has been turned off. Steering is tight and focused while the suspension diminishes most road imperfections. The weight of the battery pack is notable while really pushing the vehicle into corners, but BMW engineers have done a stellar job reducing its effect on handling.

On the highway and in the city in normal mode, the ride is more composed and suitable for day-to-day driving. It’s not as smooth as what’s available on the Mercedes EQE, but it does remind the driver that this is a midlevel luxury sports sedan.

I’m a fan of the Hans Zimmer-created acceleration noises. It’s a mix of a spaceship with bassy V8 undertones, like if ET was picked up by his parents in a BMW M8. If you’d rather not be blasted with fake motor noises, drivers can turn it off and enjoy the quiet that you can only get from an EV.

Braking is mostly a hit. In regular recuperative braking mode, the i4 never suffered from brake fade, even after multiple high-speed stops. Brake feel is solid without some of the feedback weirdness I’ve encountered on the Mercedes EQS. It’s solid feedback the entire time you have your foot on the pedal. The system will even recoup up to 116kW back to the battery while slowing down, which helps with that over 300-mile range.

Where things get weird is the “Adaptive Energy Recuperation”

Where things get weird is the “Adaptive Energy Recuperation.” In addition to the regular levels of recuperative braking, BMW has introduced a new system. It works essentially like adaptive cruise control in that it determines the level of recuperative braking based on what’s happening on the road.

If you’re driving alone on a stretch of road, the recuperative braking is set to one of its light to medium settings. If you happen to be behind another vehicle, the recuperation increases. The system also uses navigation data to adjust braking so that tighter turns result in more recuperation. In theory, it seems like a smart way to have on-the-fly regenerative braking adjustments that make sense for myriad scenarios. In reality, I found it to be unpredictable.

While it always increased the braking power behind vehicles, sometimes it would do so while turning a corner in a tight residential area where a vehicle was parked alongside the road. It was also tough to determine how much braking would be applied while driving on winding roads. After a few days, I switched to regular regenerative braking.

This might be a great system in the future as the software matures, but for now, it just created a sense of uncertainty behind the wheel that never felt dangerous but mostly was annoying.

On the highway, though, BMW’s driver assistance suite continues to impress. The lane-keeping assistant kept the vehicle centered and handled right-lane driving next to off-ramps without veering off the highway. Adaptive cruise control kept the i4 on pace with vehicles ahead of it. When another car would cut into the lane, the BMW slowed down without any panic braking, and if the tracked vehicle pulled into the next lane, the i4 slowly sped up to set speed in relation to the traffic around it. In other words, it didn’t stomp on the accelerator trying to get back up to the speed limit.

The hands-free Traffic Jam Assistant function comes close to what GM is offering with Super Cruise

For gridlock, the hands-free Traffic Jam Assistant function comes close to what GM is offering with Super Cruise. The BMW system is geofenced to divided highways and allows hands-free driving up to speeds of 40mph. The driver still needs to maintain control and responsibility, and an in-car monitoring system tracks the person behind the wheel’s head and eyes to make sure they’re looking at the road. That camera is no joke, and if you think you can take this time to play around with the infotainment system, get ready to be scolded by the vehicle.

Same on the inside

Like the exterior, inside the i4, there’s very little in the way that indicates that the vehicle is electric. Again, this has to do with BMW’s modular architecture. This could have been a gas-powered car. In fact, there are indications of that platform with the center tunnel still present. That would typically be where the transmission and driveshaft would reside. In an EV, it’s not really needed, but it’s still there.

That weirdness aside, the lack of any real special EV design flourishes means BMW didn’t try to integrate technology for the sake of technology. It’s best when features work as expected without a new and fascinating way to accomplish a trivial task. I’m thinking of the extra button on the Volkswagen ID 4 that has to be pushed to control the rear windows.

Front and center is the 14.9-inch touchscreen that houses iDrive 8, BMW’s latest infotainment system. Interface-wise, there have been some tweaks, with more panels available on the homescreen. Swiping left and right and launching features were met with little to no latency. Everything launched quickly without any fuss.

For those who would rather keep their hands on the wheel, BMW has also upgraded its voice assistant. Queries were, for the most part, met with the correct information. Directions, launching features, adjusting the climate controls, and navigating to radio stations were all taken care of with fewer errors than some other systems on the market. For fun, you can also change the wake word to something of your choosing in case you’re not in the mood to say “BMW” every time you want to plug in an address with your voice.

BMW now supports Android Auto in addition to Apple CarPlay

For those who would rather use their smartphones, there’s good news out of Germany. BMW now supports Android Auto in addition to Apple CarPlay. Android Auto support has long been left out of the automaker’s infotainment system, but now, it’s ready to accept your Android living ways. Wireless connections are supported on both smartphone platforms.

Coming this year, Apple Maps will surface charging stations if the destination is beyond the capacity of the battery’s state of charge. For Android owners, Google Maps directions will show up in the vehicle’s displays as if they were the native navigation system’s turn-by-turn directions.

As for the rest of the interior, the materials are exactly what you would expect from BMW: top-notch but not overly garish. The seats were comfortable both in the front and the back. The front seats have the appropriate amount of side bolster to keep you in your chair during aggressive driving without squeezing your sides too tightly. Head and legroom shouldn’t be an issue for anyone sitting up front. In the back, it’s going to be a bit tougher for taller passengers to get comfortable.

When you need to haul stuff, the coupe design resulted in a hatchback for the trunk. This is always an upgrade because the larger hatch means it’s easier to get large items into the vehicle. The trunk has 10 cubic feet of space. That’s less than the available cargo area in the Tesla Model 3 and Polestar 2. Still, it’s more than enough for a long weekend for two to three people or a weekly trip to a grocery store. But those looking for more space are likely also looking at an SUV.

Better than expected

Everyone loves a surprise. Well, most people love a surprise. The i3 was a fun little vehicle that was more about getting a proof of concept on the road than delivering the ultimate driving machine promise. I loved it, but others absolutely despised it.

For its next act, I expected BMW to improve upon its tiny urban EV. It did so in a way that immediately impressed and blew past my expectations as a sports sedan. The i4 only continued to beat expectations by exceeding its range estimates and charging quicker than advertised.

The German automaker built the midlevel sports sedan EV version of the ultimate driving machine that also beats the regular gas-powered 4 Series. If you can look past the enormous kidney grille and turn off the adaptive regenerative braking, the i4 is a great peek into the future of BMW.

Photography by Roberto Baldwin for The Verge

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Elon Musk Knows That Tesla Is "The Next Netflix"; Here Is What Happens Next

The latest on Tesla... In May Business Insider published a heretofore unknown story about Elon Musk paying $250,000 to settle a sexual harassment case brought by a flight attendant on one of his “global warming-fighting” private jets. Yes, the same Musk who soon after the story broke tweeted this: In fact, following that story’s publication Musk had a complete “Twitter legal meltdown”: What’s behind THAT??? Could it be that there’s rarely “just one cockroach”??? My comment to any investor who still owns this bubble fraud with that guy in charge: Have fun staying long! More “fundamentally” we remain short Tesla, the biggest bubble stock in modern market history, because: - It has a flat-to-sliding share of the world’s EV market and a share of the overall auto market that’s only around 1.5%, yet a market cap roughly equal to the next 9 largest automakers combined despite selling fewer than 3% of the cars they do. - It has no “moat” of any kind; i.e., nothing meaningfully proprietary in terms of its electric car technology (which has now been equaled or surpassed by numerous competitors), while existing automakers—unlike Tesla—have a decades-long “experience moat” of knowing how to mass-produce, distribute and service high-quality cars consistently and profitably. Meanwhile, its previously proprietary Superchargers are being opened to everyone. - Excluding working capital benefits and sunsetting emission credit sales, Tesla generates only minimal free cash flow. - Growth in sequential unit demand for Tesla’s cars is at a crawl relative to expectations. - Elon Musk is a pathological liar. Tesla Is Netflix For years I’ve said “Tesla is Blackberry”—the maker of a first-generation version of a product that—once the market was proven—would be supplanted into niche obscurity by newer, better versions; now I can provide a much more recent analogy: Tesla is Netflix. For years Netflix had an absurd valuation based on its pioneering position in streaming media, but once it proved that such a market existed myriad competitors swarmed all over it, and in April the stock collapsed when we learned that not only is Netflix no longer in “hypergrowth” mode but for the first time since 2011 (when it transitioned from physical DVDs) it actually lost subscribers. I believe Musk knows that Tesla is “the next Netflix” (hence his recent “Twitter buying distraction”), with VW, Hyundai/Kia, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes, BYD & other Chinese competitors and, in a few years, Toyota & Honda, being the Disney, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Hulu, Paramount +, etc., of the electric car market, stealing Tesla’s share and eventually pounding its stock price down 95% or so from today’s, into the valuation of “just another car company.” In fact, Tesla’s Q1 deliveries were sequentially nearly flat (just 1398 additional cars, a gain of just 0.45%) vs. the previous quarter and even that was only “achieved” by a sneaky redefinition by Tesla of what “a delivery” is. Yes, the company is chip-constrained, but its competitors (who, unlike Tesla, are unwilling to delete safety equipment or use untested chips to maintain production) are even more constrained, and in fact waiting times are longer for Tesla’s direct EV competitors than they are for a Tesla; for instance, Ford’s Mustang Mach-E is so in demand that it has even halted additional orders for the 2022 model year. (Current annual Mach-E production capacity is around 65,000 for the U.S. & Europe and tens of thousands more for China but in 2023 U.S. & European capacity will expand to 200,000.) The worst thing that can possibly happen to “the Tesla story” will be when its German and Texas plants are fully operational and the subsequent excess capacity stares the world right in the face, thereby ending its myth of “unlimited demand” (especially at current, drastically-raised prices, where the cheapest Model 3 now starts at $47,000 and the cheapest Model Y begins at $63,000); in fact, look for margin-destroying price cuts by late this year or early 2023. Meanwhile, the “record” profits that accompanied Q1’s nearly flat delivery number were obtained via myriad one-time items, including $679 million of emission credit sales that will disappear over the next year or two as every automaker ramps up its EV sales, a mysterious $502 million reduction in SG&A expense (of which only $140 million was due to reduced stock comp) despite opening new factories in Germany and Texas (what is Tesla capitalizing instead of expensing???) and a combination of FIFO accounting and multiple sticker price increases that allowed Tesla to expense rapidly rising raw materials costs at older, lower prices while selling cars built from those materials at new, considerably higher prices. Adjusting for these factors, Tesla had GAAP earnings for the quarter that were at least $1/share lower than the posted $2.86, and annualizing that realistic $1.86/share to $7.44 means that at May’s closing price Tesla (on a no-growth quarter) had a PE ratio of around 102 vs. an industry-wide figure of less than 10. Meanwhile, excluding growth in net payables and $993 million in sunsetting emission credit sales, Tesla’s free cash for Q1 2022 and Q4 2021 combined was just $950 million, which annualizes to only around $1.9 billion*. A 15x multiple on this (roughly a 100% premium to BMW’s multiple) would make TSLA stock worth only around $28/share! *And I’m not even backing out Tesla’s massively dilutive stock comp And for those of you who think that Tesla is “really an energy company,” in Q1 “Tesla Energy” had revenue of just $616 million (down 10.5% sequentially) and a cost of revenue of $688 million, meaning it had a negative gross margin. So if Tesla is “really an energy company,” it’s even more screwed than if it’s just a car company! Meanwhile, many Tesla bulls sincerely believe that ten years from now the company will be twice the size of Volkswagen or Toyota, thereby selling around 20 million cars a year (up from the current run-rate of around 1.3 million); in fact, in March Musk himself even raised this as a possibility. To illustrate how utterly absurd this is, going from 1.3 million cars a year today to 20 million in ten years means that in addition to one million cars a year of eventual production from the new German and Texas factories, Tesla would have to add 35 more brand new 500,000 car/year factories with sold-out production; i.e., a new factory nearly every single quarter for ten years! And what then? Well, then you’d have a car company approximately twice the size of Toyota (current market cap: $229 billion) or Volkswagen (current market cap: $111 billion). If that would make Tesla worth, say, $500 billion in 10 years, discounting that back at 15%/year and allowing for enough share dilution to pay for all those factories, Tesla—in that absurdly optimistic scenario—would be worth just $100/share today, down almost 90% from its current price. (To be clear, I think it’s going much lower than that!) Original Article Here: Read the full article

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Tesla Entry into the U.S. auto industry

Hello, my name is Astrid Sandoval, I study international business at the tecmilenio university, today I will talk about Tesla's entry into the U.S. automotive industry.

Tesla is an American company led by Elon Musk that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars, components for the propulsion of electric vehicles and domestic batteries, its mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Today Tesla not only builds all-electric vehicles, but also manufactures clean energy storage and generation products that can be scaled up indefinitely. Tesla believes the world will be better off the sooner we move away from reliance on fossil fuels and towards a zero-emission future.

The industrial sector is supported with aid and financing; with the main objective of creating fast charging infrastructures on the main highways of Europe, necessary to meet the level of demand in the future and ensure the electrification of mobility and transport. ***

There are some political agreements, for example, the European Union applies many laws to encourage the development of alternative technologies in which there are lower emissions in transportation.

Tesla's manufacturing in the Netherlands is excellent news for future Tesla car buyers in Europe. In addition to shortening delivery times, taxes associated with tariffs are eliminated, since thanks to the free market we have in the European Union, barriers to exports are removed, facilitating the sale of foreign European products in Spain.

With respect to the financial frameworks we can note that in the second quarter of 2018, the compan posted a net loss of $743 million on revenues of $4 billion. Analysts estimated that the company needed to produce at least 5,000 units a week to turn a profit in 2018. Musk was closely monitoring production of the Model 3. He described Tesla as in a state of "production hell."

On the demographic segmentation of the Tesla Model 3 is oriented to a family audience, families who can afford to pay around 40,000 euros for a vehicle.

In general, Tesla car sales are aimed at any man or woman of adult age who has a driver's license.

While it is true that Tesla cars are Tesla are luxury products with a high price, we could say that they are more oriented to middle-aged people with a high purchasing power, necessary to be able to afford the payment of around 100,00 euros in the case of the Model S or X.

The countries that can receive its product are those that have the necessary infrastructure to be able to sell vehicles, so any country where there is a network of vehicle dealerships and commercial routes in good condition is a potential customer for Tesla.

These parameters may exclude third world areas, such as countries in South America or Africa, where the sale of vehicles is an illogical task since transportation and distribution costs would be outside the minimum limits for a product to be profitable; in addition to the fact that in these countries the electrical facilities they have are not suitable for charging electric cars.

I believe that Elon Musk has achieved his goal of stimulating innovation in the automotive sector by introducing sustainable energy and hybrid cars with all their components, putting a grain of sand in the world very large and this is only the beginning with the manufacture of its most economical car so far, Tesla continues to put affordable products within reach of more and more people, which ultimately will accelerate the arrival of clean transportation and energy production. Electric cars, batteries and renewable energy generation and storage already exist independently, but when combined, their potential is even greater, and that's the future we want.

Thank you .

#TESLA

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