Featured Tesla hits back and some media are having vapors

i love it.

 

Has everyone actually heard the Prius Noise Maker? My hearing is really bad and I don't know what noise I am suppose to hear.

I'm sure Henry Ford had similar issues back in his early days as Elon Musk.

 

open the drivers window and you'll hear it in your garage, or near a wall in a parking garage.

 

When you can no longer adequately refute the message, attack the messenger.

IMO, Elon is really beginning to feel the pressure and his recent actions have become questionable. Reducing workforce through contractor firings, several high level positions leaving voluntarily (or not), doubling the price of the Model 3, rushing production, botched factory planning (too many robots), etc. Even a person of his talents, skills, and abilities can succumb to such pressures. Production hell indeed.

 

seems like they are turning out great cars at an ever increasing rate, but some of the press are continually smelling blood where it doesn't exist.

 

There's so much blood the smell gets everywhere.

The Model 3 price has not doubled. A version with a different and expensive option package has been placed in production. I'm sure that if Tesla lasts long enough the $35000 stripper will be offered to the original reservation holders.

 

i notice a lot of articles with bloody headlines, but factual reporting.

 

hmm.

The reason toyota hires contractors is so they can get rid of them, without firing its workforce. They didn't really have a large firing of employees until they closed NUMMI, but they did get rid of a lot of contractors over the years. Anyway, if you are mad at tesla for hiring temporary workers then getting rid of many of the mediocre to bad ones as they try to hire permanent employees, you must be mad at every auto company, and most manufacturers.

How did they double the price of the model 3? They are requiring 2 options - premium package ($5K) and long range pack ($9K) to get your car. The last I checked 40% more is a lot less than double ;-) Once production comes up and the tax credits expire, I fully expect them to drop the requirement. When the prius was in high demand in 2007, dealers upped the price with options. I don't like the practice, but lets not exaggerate.

Top executive turnover is another matter. I would expect a fair amount of turnover given the stress, and the great deal of wealth many leaving have accumulated. We will know in a few years when tesla has a lot more employees if its a big problem or a little one.

Tesla does promises near impossible deadlines, then misses them. Lexus would have planned the model 3 for a 2020 model, and had great manufacturing going the end of next year, with lots of time to test and retest. Tesla seemed to push things past the limit, then has had to retool and have people work crazy hours. I expect the story to repeat again on the Y, roadster, and Semi, but there will be less moaning by shorts and the press.

I'd say the biggest thing tesla has hyped is autopilot and self driving. This has gotten a lot of competitors to offer part of the system. There has been massive turnover of talent leading the project mainly because musk doesn't appear to understand how difficult the problems are. I think they will get it right, but that cross country trip keeps getting delayed, and they probably need another year to get autopilot working the way it should, and maybe 5 to get self driving (perhaps requiring new hardware.

 

elon was back on twitter over the weekend. i agree with some of his complaints, but he is sounding a bit trumpish.

 

and you mean that in a good way . . . .

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if that's possible, yes. we all hate fake news, but sometimes it's the eye of the beholder.

 

Bias?

IN THE MEDIA?!?!?!?!

heh-heh-heh....
Welcome to the fight.