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:biggrin: Now that's a great piece of journalism ...

Fantastic, beautiful - great job! Let's give Gangnam Style a run for its clicks ...

Given that Tesla is very inspired by Apple, I believe it is some form av annual conference, which they will also use as a channel for new announcements. Probably they will host it at their factory and broadcast it live on the Internet as well. What will be announced this summer? A final model X...

That's one butt ugly car. How can they even put a Mercedes logo on it?

Great calculation. However, for comparison purposes, you can actually reduce the own business assumption. Since the extra income per mile you get is the same, and the number of miles driven is also the same, it will add the same amount to both sheets - right?

It seems Tesla is spending on - of all things - search ads ... These are Google's targeted ads. The reason you see all EV ads is that their targeting has decided you are an EV-interested consumer. If I was selling, say, organic oranges, I could also choose to target EV-interested consumers...

Are you guys sure they're not just moderating the forums like here - moving posts to other threads? Because there is no lack of complaints on the Tesla Motors forums. If I had been an evil marketer wishing to remove content, I'd start with "Problems with Car", "Floor Mats stink", "Door opens by...

Got it - thanks for two easy to understand replies

http://www.edmunds.com/bmw/activehybrid-7/2013/ "Compared to other luxury flagship hybrid sedans like the 2013 Lexus LS 600h L, 2013 Mercedes S400 Hybrid and 2013 Porsche Panamera Hybrid, the BMW does fare pretty well. It's quicker and more efficient than the Mercedes and less expensive than...

But why does the Model S have a lower max speed? I don't think it matters much in practice, just curious if it is by design or if ICEs still have an advantage in delivering higher max speeds?

My suggestion would be to do a fully crowdsourced campaign - ask Tesla buyers to send videos of themselves and their families on the road, then just mix it with some great music (cause without the auto noise, it'll be awfully quiet). Show how people love the cars they have, how they name them...

Your car won't be "outdated" because new batteries come along. It's a great car today, it'll be a great car then too. But of course you won't recoup what you paid for your car. That's the way it is with cars. I think Tesla is doing the right thing. If they can't promise it can be upgraded, they...

Does that mean there aren't significant issues in your Volt's firmware? Or that GM decided it'd be too hard to distribute the update?

I think it's entirely reasonable, but just as TD1, I think it's the wrong way to go. It undermines the value of the recommendation, and it might also create weird incentives. Multi-Level-Marketing Schemes have to do it, but I don't think Tesla has to. Better to spend that money on making the...

I think the way Tesla are able to update their cars wirelessly is pure genius (except for the occasional half-baked-release). Is this unique, or are there other cars out there with this functionality?

Is anyone here as surprised as I am about how Tesla's stock is trading? Not the price level, but the volatility. Given that Tesla is an extremely ambitious startup in a crowded market, with a large short interest and small free float, its share price should swing like crazy. Especially as new...

I don't get the comparison with Model S. The ELR is a 2-seater, which is great as a "toy car", but it's not very practical (which the Model S is). You still need another car for giving people a ride, bringing home your shopping and so forth. They are just two very different beasts - which is...

So what's up today? Pretty hard sell-off, followed by bounce back.

Yes, but that combination could be very hard to determine. And it could be down to extreme details. And as you say, once it's started, the errors tend to cascade until you reboot. Just to give you an example I worked a while with mobile phone testing. I remember this one bug where if I sent a...

Without calling myself an expert, what most of you are describing sounds like a memory leak issue, in which some piece of Tesla software goes out of control, and starts causing crashes of other applications. Because it's not an "intentional error", where your software does what you told it to...

In Northern Europe, wagons are still extremely popular (more so than SUVs). There could be enough market opportunity for Tesla in this. The "Model ST" rendering looks awesome to me.

This has obviously been answered in a thread somewhere, but it's really hard to find since all threads tend to contain the word VIN, so: VIN numbers are assigned sequentially, increasing by one for each Model S produced - right? Then how come VIN #3XXX can be delivered at the same time as e.g...

I think it might be related to the SolarCity IPO - people selling Tesla shares to take advantage of the low price on SolarCity. As mentioned, volume isn't very high and the decline has been very gradual.

As I understand it, the official target is 2,500-3,000 cars delivered in Q4. Is there someone here who'd like to make an educated guess as to what the actual number will be? I can't really make sense of the Model-S deliveries thread, but maybe someone else can?