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To be fair, the union transport minister offered to give support if Tesla chooses to manufacture locally. Tesla chose China over India for obvious reasons.

You must worry more about the air quality rather than autopilot.

You are forgetting the first mover advantage and the IP portfolio they might carry. Elon might volunteer the battery/EV tech for faster adaptation but FSD may be not.

A little old industry leading numbers are close to 1TOPS/W and Nvidia/Google are the worst performers in terms of TOPS/W at close to 0.5. It's not just about cost or power but about the controllability in terms of HW and SW basically vertical integration of FSD things

Very low number of people use kerosene as alternate fuel to petrol(less than .1%) which is distributed at subsidy for poor and is colored in blue to avoid black market sale. I did not find them in recent times at all at least in southern parts. This usage can be identified easily with high noise...

Actually car ownership is even lesser because car is owned mostly in cities/towns. Its no longer apt to say that the rich only have cars but the middle class in cities is buying more. Per capita numbers look small because of huge population. As per recent govt. report it is at 22 per 1000 and is...

One question I have regarding evaluating a factory value from experts. Is it per annum output value of its product or per annum operation cost or the build cost or something else? For the first two which are almost same minus profit, I dont see a problem matching the cap ex spend vs the progress...

While you get the fun at the track only, I get it at every signal beating the "cooler" car.

Sure. Why not if the profit margin is better with Model3 and if its feasible!!

So is the fuel of choice for sun too and it never stopped exploding. I just want my car to go on the road and not explode like a spaceship when there is an accident. You know, its better to be late(charging) than never(explode)!! and I want my car maintenance to be like a car and not like a...

Well, you can use multiple connectors and achieve the similar charge times and I guess you cannot do the same with gas i.e insert multiple nozzles into one tank!! Though battery cost is high you save on the fuel costs so it works out well when they break even.

My guess is that the cancellations will come when the incentives are gone not because they expected the top end model will be available at 35k. Few reservations were made expecting that incentive. If they don't get it they might cancel and go for a car costing 20-25k. JMO

Charger prototype finding its way to Model S - YouTube Same as in the second post but uploaded by Tesla Motors!!

This looks like this car almost from every angle except the nose cone and the doors. Not that it is bad in anyway but just something that reminded me when I see the design. Honda All New City

From what I understand, he is concerned about the environment damage that causes because of fracking which can be stopped by making cheaper EVs that reduces oil usage and thus reduces the need for fracking.

I dont now about the US taxes on gas, but here in India its taxed some % of price per litre which will reduce if the oil price is reduced and govt. will get less tax income from gas sales and they will increase the tax % to keep their income at projected levels. Can you brief how govt. will get...

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Today, I had a chance to attend a talk by Reva(Indian Electric Car Maker and have presence in EU too and now owned by Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) an ICE car maker)'s Founder&CEO Mr. Chetan Maini. He has a BS degree from Michigan Univ. and an MS degree from Stanford and is a member of solar car...

Unsafe car in whose view? the public or the govt.? We do care about noise levels when inside a car and at least individual car buyers in metros(those who spend good amounts on cars) consider this in their purchase decision. For the public on road, drivers sound horn more frequently than you...

I think the range depends on the amount of electrolyte you add to the batteries. If you add more than you use, its a waste the chemical process inside is still going on whether you use it or not.

Its from Reva now acquired by Mahindra not Tata. The car they have is all electric and looks like a toy car that you see in cartoons with two doors and a 100km range. Range is not a problem for city driving. It costs double than the entry level cars(which are like hot sellers here) obviously...

Thanks Sid for the article. I don't have an account with SA and not planning to open one, but the the chart on first page gave me an idea of what you are talking.

My guess is lower than your lower value. So far they delivered ~23k cars in 2014 and their estimate for 2014 is 33k. Assuming 1k cars will be shipped to SC/stores they need to make ~11k cars in 12 weeks(1 week for holidays!!) and that makes ~920 per week to meet their estimates.

They would have given the average over a month time. When you leave those lose ends FUDs tie to the wrong end and weave a story out of that.

Pardon my ignorance but I've heard about this model for the first time and I'm guessing it still has more parts to assemble than MS!! We are talking about the making of it not how fast it can go!! My point is, don't over promise and disappoint later. Give may be 40%(evaluate from the recent...

Whatttt? A century ago numbers when the automation was no where near to the current one. Give me something more realistic and comparable!! - - - Updated - - - Yes it is. But, how does anyone believe that when you did't deliver what you have promised a while ago!!

From the bears point of view, they did not meet the Q3 guidance(minimal effect considering it a marginal miss), poor guidance for Q4 and for 2014(lesser by 2k cars which is 6% compared to previous guidance and the total revenue will be less by ~200M), not able to meet the previous guidance so...

The same 90% of the people think that range is more important in an EV and even for those 10% of trips lot of people don't want to maintain/rent another car!! So, ultimately demand will decide which is the best one and where to stop. With the current rules, why does any one want to build a long...

When someone does such a great job of adding more miles per charge, shouldn't they be rewarded well like double credits for double range and 4 times credits for tripe range etc. That will be more exciting and challenging for the manufacturers and they will be rewarded for their innovations and...

They can use cisco spin-in technique if they want to avoid the share holders wrath and the new company can have its own way of doing things!!

From the above article While others need to wait for the approvals, Tesla already selling them and update the software to enable them with out visiting the SC. When other manufacturers will adapt to such techniques?

CEO Faceoff Finals: It's down to Musk and Chambers I have no idea about this site but I found the share on twitter and sharing it here. Vote for your favorite CEO Business Pulse Poll: CEO Faceoff Finals: It's down to Musk and Chambers - Silicon Valley Business Journal

I bought my first ever TSLA shares. It was a scheduled purchase @ 230 and happy for this price and thanks to the forum for the articles and news.

100 kmpl translates to 230mpg. Prius killer? Though a concept, the numbers are quite high!! Renault Eolab concept revealed| ZigWheels.com

Thanks DaveT for the articles and insights. I understand the demand is high at 800/week but can we expect the same level of demand at 2000/week too because its not an affordable car(s) for lot of people. I know Elon is saying that demand is there but how much we can rely on his words and is...

Check the hydrogen production wiki page Hydrogen production - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cost per unit of hydrogen is what decides the market not just the government intentions/funding. Few years back, solar was costly. Even with govt. intentions of encouraging clean solar energy market...

Isn't 10% too much for the number of jobs it creates? I don't know the usual numbers but for 6k jobs(around 4k local jobs with avg salary at 100k again another guess), 500m incentives seems high to me!!

These tanks have to be cylindrical as that is the most stable form for storage.

Your posts made me to consider investing in TSLA from India and I don't even trade Indian stocks. May be I did not find such detailed articles on any Indian company.

Tesla Motors - The Future of Electric Cars (National Geographic) - YouTube In the Discovery Mega Factories Tesla documentary, it was mentioned that Tesla can do indoor testing because they are emission free vehicles at around 41:45 in the above video. So, I do believe that there might a...

Engadget quotes an article about a breakthrough in Hydrogen production. Quote from the articles