🚀 Tesla to Mars 🚀

Pesala

It is not all about Electric Cars

Green energy is an even bigger market, and Tesla is heavily invested in battery technology and solar panels.

Rethink Energy 2020-2030

Joe Biden already showed his intent by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline and rejoining the Paris agreement. Legacy auto and power is on its way down to being worthless.

At market close on 20th January Tesla stock had fallen back to $850.45
£2,208 invested on 16th November is now worth £4,363.12 (up 197.6%)

Pesala

@Pesala said in Tesla to Mars and the Moon:

I guess it must go down eventually, but it is still climbing like crazy.

The price finally dropped today after the Q4 2020 announcements, so I was able to invest in another ten shares @ $794.73.

Update: As expected, the price recovered after the weekend and closed at $872.79 on February 2nd.

Pesala

Texas Gigafactory Progress

Day 195 - 2nd Feb 2021. Music is Venkatesananda by Jesse Gallagher.

Not the most recent updated, but the most beautiful one from last week.

Compare to Day 201. Just six days later and the steel framework is approaching completion.

Pesala

Long Wheel-base Tesla

The Last Tesla you will ever Need

Pesala

S&P and Tesla Falling Fast

At first sight, it may seem that the Bubble has burst, but it is nothing to worry about. There are many factors combining to push the price down at the moment. It is a great buying opportunity if you do your homework.

I had to ask my supporter to sell the shares because he is returning to Sri Lanka, but it was all good, as another supporter bought them back again after two days at a lower price. I would have waited a few more days if my crystal ball was working properly, but it is a bit blurred.

Rob Maurer of Tesla Daily on Tesla Volatility.

Update: $653.20 at market close on 3rd March after another rough day for US stocks.

Pesala

Latest News

I now have one more share @ $576.40 on special offer. Total investment is currently down by about 12%, but I am sure it will recover before long.
India is negotiating with Tesla to build a car factory there, promising lower production costs than China
China is exporting the Model 3 to Japan, where sales are booming now due to the lower production and shipping costs being passed on to customers
The compact hatchback "Model 2" (not officially named yet) is due to start production in October
Tesla might build houses for the workers at Giga Texas, lending money to them to buy the houses
FSD Beta will be available to many more Tesla owners in a week or two. Elon Musk Tweet:

@elonmusk 6th Mar: Due to high levels of demand for FSD Beta, adding “Download Beta” button to Service section of car display in ~10 days. If you want the Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta downloaded to your car, let us know. Doubling beta program size now with 8.2 & probably 10X size with 8.3. Still be careful, but it’s getting mature.

Pesala

What Just Happened?

When I woke up from my afternoon nap, the price was $674 and my investment was worth £1,260 more in one day! That is 5% up in 16 weeks, when it was almost 11% down yesterday.

Update: Almost $700 two days later.

Cathie Wood expects it to continue climbing fast.

Pesala

Q1 Deliveries

The Q1 results for vehicles delivered this quarter are double those for the same period last year, at 184,800.

This stimulated a rapid rise in the stock price at the beginning of the week to over $700.

Just one day later, it is really taking off and was $762.32 at market close on April 13th. Was Elon talking about Doge coin, Starship, or the Tesla stock price?

@elonmusk 9th April

… going to moon very soon

Tesla Q1 Earnings call is scheduled for Monday 26th April

Pesala

Tesla Crash Fake News

No one was driving in Tesla crash that killed two men in Texas.

The MSBC report spreads the rumour that self-driving technology is not safe enough to be tested on public roads.

Auto-pilot as available in the 2019 Model S is not full self-driving technology. It is driver assistance with safety features.
Full Self Driving (FSD) software is currently Beta software, and requires that the driver should have hands on the wheel and be ready to take over control.
Autopilot was not engaged in the crashed vehicle.
There was no one in the driver's seat. One man was in the passenger's seat, and another was in the back seat. Both were of a mature age. Could this have been a car-jacking attempt that went wrong, and the driver ran off after the crash?
Autopilot is about ten times safer than a human driver if it is engaged. Since it was not engaged, it clearly has nothing to do with the crash.

Tesla stock price fell below $700 at the start of trading, but recovered to $729.40 by market close on Friday 23rd.

cannongray

Since it was sent into space in February 2018, Tesla has made its first approach to Mars within 7.5 million kilometers. In August 2019 it made the first complete revolution around the Sun and headed for Mars. You can track the position of the space car in real-time on a special website whereisroadster.com, which daily publishes up-to-date data on the location of the electric car.

stilgarwolf

@Pesala https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/cr-engineers-show-tesla-will-drive-with-no-one-in-drivers-seat/

Pesala

@cannongray I gave the link to whereisroadster in my first post.

@stilgarwolf Just more FUD. The data from the actual crash proves that Autopilot was not engaged, and if it could be tricked into being engaged on a road without lines, it would not exceed the speed limit on that road, which it did apparently do before it crashed. Ipso facto it was not engaged, it is not unsafe, and the incident is still unexplained.

I dismiss the chance of it being a stunt as too improbable due to the mature age of the deceased occupants. A car-jacking seems more likely, but we should wait and see before jumping to any conclusions. Reality is often stranger than fiction.

The mainstream media does not care about the truth — their job is just to make money by keeping their viewer figures high. It is just click-bait and sensationalism, not journalism.

Pesala

@stilgarwolf If you want to know why Consumer Reports did this test, Tom Nash did some digging and discovered that the two top executives of Consumer Reports used to work for the Ford Foundation. Ford and GM use inferior Cruise Control autonomous driving with a camera looking to see if the driver is paying attention.

By market close on 28th April the Tesla stock price had fallen to $694.40 due, in part, no doubt to this latest FUD. The crash had nothing to do with Autopilot; it was not engaged and could not have been engaged as the road has no lane lines.

Pesala

Australien Government

They need to improve their policies on Electric Vehicles.

Pesala

Look Mum! No hands!

After crashing: Look mum! No teeth!

Another fatal crash most likely involving the misuse of autopilot. The media continues the narrative that Auto-pilot is at fault, and not the driver, even though the instructions clearly state that the driver must remain attentive and ready to take over at any time.

Full Self-driving cannot come soon enough.

World Record

Tesla Model S Plaid sets a new world record of 9.23 seconds for a Quarter Mile for a production car.

Pesala

Tesla in Write-off

Lorry Load of Blocks converts Tesla into a write-off. The driver and his wife walked away with minor injuries.

In tomorrow's fake news: “Autopilot Fails to Prevent Write-off.”

Dr.Flay

This weeks Tesla stories from my feeds

Tesla owners win legal fight after software update crippled older Model S batteries
https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/24/tesla_software_norway/

Russian hacker who failed in attempt to steal company secrets from Elon Musk’s Tesla electric battery plant to be deported from US
https://www.rt.com/russia/524750-hacker-tesla-us-deported/

German police probe Tesla factory fire as possible arson attack after blaze claimed by ‘left-wing extremists’
https://www.rt.com/news/524882-police-investigate-germany-tesla-factory-fire/

Tesla agrees to follow Beijing's rules and build a data centre in China
https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/27/tesla_announced_china_data_center/

Tesla cameras will monitor driver awareness
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57283479

SpaceX
Is SpaceX reliable? Company goes for 100th successful flight in a row today
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1767674

Competitor fears Musk's SpaceX could 'monopolise' space
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-competitor-musk-spacex-monopolise-space.html

SpaceX CRS-22 mission to space station launches water bears, squid, solar panels
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-spacex-crs-mission-space-station.html

Pesala

Model S Delivery Day

Today is the delivery day for the refreshed Model S.

Tesla Model S Delivery Event Expectations.

The event is scheduled to begin at 8:30pm Pacific Time.

Pesala

Model S Specs

0-60 in in 1.99 seconds
Standing quarter mile in 9.23 seconds
Top speed 200 mph, 1020 HP
Lowest drag coefficient of any car: 0.208
Range 390-412 miles
Charging 187 miles in 15 minutes
Carbon-sleeved motor 20,000+ rpm delivers full 1000 HP right up to 200 mph
Improved heat pump 30% more efficient. No doubt this helps the Model S to maintain full power even when repeatedly driven hard.
Yoke steering with no stalks, smart gear-shift, back-seat PS5 level entertainment and 36 watt wireless charging, three zone air-conditioning, double glazed acoustic glass, 22 speakers 920 watts!, new UI on main 17" landscape screen, waypoints on route-planning.

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Pike’s Peak 2021

Model S Plaid Qualifies 1st ahead of the race day on Sunday 27th. The siren has to be on to warn that the car is coming because there is no engine noise.

Winning Run on Race Day

The Unplugged Performance customised Model S Plaid in action on this annual mountain race. Last year their team crashed, so the race was won by a production Tesla Model 3 Performance sponsored by Tesla fans without corporate finance.