TSLA Investor Discussions

[xhawk101]

As excited as I am about Friday's event. I believe the noticeable impact will come next week when the media put pen to paper. There will be a flurry of articles (covering Tesla and the event) on Monday and Tuesday, like we have never seen before. In the aftermath of those articles, we'll see positive stock movement (Tues. - Thurs.). For the rest of the automotive industry, the bar was just raised so high, they can't even see it. People will be going into dealerships saying "show me a car that doesn't use gas, and has a 160 mile range". Wish I could be a fly on the wall for that!

It'll be icing on the cake when they find out that Elon is the same guy whos' copany built a rocket that resupplied the International Space Station, then safely brought experiments back to earth. "Of course he can make the best EVs anyone has ever dreamed of".

Agreed!

when to my local mercedes dealer asking them about trade in value for my car he was trying to sell me a new 1 of my slk trying to figure out whywould want a tesla. I told him someday maybe I'll be back and it will be to buy an electric mercedes and oh yeah it will be powered by tesla !

[domenick]

Where did you get that from?

While researching Tesla Supercharger network to feature solar panels, battery swapping I asked Tesla about announcement timing and was told "We will be deploying the Supercharger Network in the future, but no timeline has been set."

...There is a handful of media that we've invited for a preview drive of Model S later this month....

Like I said, there may be some media test drives, but as they discuss in the Jalopnik piece, many journalists aren't so interested in a 10-minute drive, so while they might have invited some, it doesn't mean they will happen. In my own case, I am trying to decide myself whether I should spend a few hundred dollars and maybe take a day off work to fly to Miami for one myself. Even if I can swing it, Tesla customers have priority on the time slots so it's not even certain they can accommodate me.

[kenliles]

1000 Model Ss for Iceland? Maybe
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ken

[mulder1231]

Keep those news releases coming! Here's another one:
NVIDIA Powers Digital Dashboard in New Tesla Motors Electric Sedan

[Fr23shjive]

I'm really looking forward to all the reviews. Too bad that Fisker guy didn't pick up a Model S too. His reviews would have been great.

[onlinespending]

On the bright side, more smart money got in today with good volume.

Tomorrow should be hot since it's the last session before the big event. And talking about hot, we are dying out there, 35 degrees Celsius under the shade, it's so humid, you could drink the air.

The smart money (informed people) are getting back-in. Regular folks will start entering on Monday if the news is powerful enough. It'll be interesting to watch.

Apparently that heat is also making you delusional

[Uncle Ron]

EDIT,,

[Steph]

Today is

D DAY !

[Steph]

Today is the sucker rally.

I don't know who's selling but they are idiots.

[NigelM]

And so it begins:

Now that Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has become a real carmaker, albeit a young one, it faces entirely new challenges:

* Can it deliver a steady stream of Model S vehicles to the backlog of what it says are more than 10,000 buyers who've put down deposits?
* Will the Model S be reliable, and if early cars have any quality issues, can the company rectify them quickly and painlessly?
* Will the mix of orders skew sufficiently to high-end models that the Tesla Model S range overall provides a healthy profit margin?
* And, can sales of the Model S--5,000 this year, 20,000 next year, says CEO Musk--generate enough revenue to cover not only its costs but future model development?

Amazing how quickly a waiting list can turn into a "backlog".....

This wouldn't surprise me either:

Most analysts continue to believe that Tesla Motors won't remain independent, but will be purchased by one of the dozen or so largest global automakers.

The best time for a sale may be in the two years starting today, assuming that Tesla launches the Model S smoothly, racks up sales according to plan, and rolls out its 2013 Model X crossover on schedule.

And at least they finished with:

Many observers, analysts, and armchair critics said the company would never get this far.

So, let us toast Tesla today--and watch to see how this next phase of the electric-car company's life plays out.

Well done, Tesla!