Hey TMC gang,
So we've got this guy, Bill K, on Twitter. He's your typical bear with one major exception. He's a total Kripkean dogmatist, meaning he's somehow unable to look at any data beyond the very few data points he has. He keeps harping on Tesla for using Taiwanese "Fukuta" as a supplier, which is apparently a problem in his mind. He's convinced Tesla buys full motors from them and does not make their own motors. It would be fine if he held those beliefs and had rational discussion about it all, but he's now trolling all kinds of journalists and others who mention $TSLA. He's obsessed with this notion that Tesla's Taiwanese motor supplier can't scale, and now (with the Consumer Reports thing), they obviously also make ****** motors that fail.
After ranting on Twitter about this forever, he's now put this idiotic post out on the web:
Elon Musk and Tesla Motors secret motor supplier. | Bridging Money, Finance, and Technology
A run down on Bill-thinking:
1) Fukuta makes motors. They have a whole catalog of motors!
2) Tesla used to buy motors from them for the Roadster
3) Therefore, Tesla continues to buy full motors from them in the Model S
4) Tesla's 10K from 2010 says they moved motor production to California, but that must be a lie because ... you know ... Fukuta has a catalog!
5) Elon even tweeted about this saying Fukuta is a sub-component supplier, but he's lying! It's impossible. Fukuta has a catalog!
6) China Steel Corp is an investor in Fukuta, and they say "Fukuta is the only supplier of motor iron cores for TESLA Motors". But that's a lie too! They've got a catalog! They MUST sell full motors! (Side note: I'm not sure the wording on the China Steel website is correct, but that's what they say here: CSC Corporate Social Responsibility)
7) There is documentary video footage of Tesla putting these motors together in California. It's horse crap! Fukuta makes entire motors as clearly seen in their catalog!
Need I go on?
Go have fun. His Twitter handle is Bi11k.
BillK (@Bi11K) | Twitter
So we've got this guy, Bill K, on Twitter. He's your typical bear with one major exception. He's a total Kripkean dogmatist, meaning he's somehow unable to look at any data beyond the very few data points he has. He keeps harping on Tesla for using Taiwanese "Fukuta" as a supplier, which is apparently a problem in his mind. He's convinced Tesla buys full motors from them and does not make their own motors. It would be fine if he held those beliefs and had rational discussion about it all, but he's now trolling all kinds of journalists and others who mention $TSLA. He's obsessed with this notion that Tesla's Taiwanese motor supplier can't scale, and now (with the Consumer Reports thing), they obviously also make ****** motors that fail.
After ranting on Twitter about this forever, he's now put this idiotic post out on the web:
Elon Musk and Tesla Motors secret motor supplier. | Bridging Money, Finance, and Technology
A run down on Bill-thinking:
1) Fukuta makes motors. They have a whole catalog of motors!
2) Tesla used to buy motors from them for the Roadster
3) Therefore, Tesla continues to buy full motors from them in the Model S
4) Tesla's 10K from 2010 says they moved motor production to California, but that must be a lie because ... you know ... Fukuta has a catalog!
5) Elon even tweeted about this saying Fukuta is a sub-component supplier, but he's lying! It's impossible. Fukuta has a catalog!
6) China Steel Corp is an investor in Fukuta, and they say "Fukuta is the only supplier of motor iron cores for TESLA Motors". But that's a lie too! They've got a catalog! They MUST sell full motors! (Side note: I'm not sure the wording on the China Steel website is correct, but that's what they say here: CSC Corporate Social Responsibility)
7) There is documentary video footage of Tesla putting these motors together in California. It's horse crap! Fukuta makes entire motors as clearly seen in their catalog!
Need I go on?
Go have fun. His Twitter handle is Bi11k.
BillK (@Bi11K) | Twitter