@ElonMusk and I own Tesla (along with several other people).
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🚨 Tesla surpasses 11B FSD miles tonight, a huge FSD milestone, extending its real-world data dominance powering driverless made-in-Texas Robotaxis: the nation's most cost efficient and first SAE Level 4 system legally certified for paid rides without radar or lidar.
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I’m old enough to remember when debates questioned Reagan’s mental fitness… talk about ‘sharp as a tack’!
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All I want for my birthday is the abolishment of Daylight Savings Time.
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Hey, @elonmusk : will Teslas ever be able to automatically adjust the side mirror settings for new drivers? 🤔
(based on 3D position of the driver’s eyes + comparing against the fleet’s internal camera data & side mirror settings)
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I hope somebody figures out who decided to start calling child rapists “groomers”.
Make “groomers” people who shampoo dogs again.
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@DOGE will cut spending in Washington, and the squeals will be deafening.
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The Tesla Model 3 is the #1 selling luxury sedan in the U.S.
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"Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever."
—Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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My Halloween costume is Inflation.
Too bad nobody will see it because Inflation Tax is invisible.
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To reach any of the 12 tranches in his proposed 2025 CEO stock compensation package, @elonmusk would need to grow $TSLA market cap by $0.6T… literally an order of magnitude more than any other Auto CEO has in 50 years.
Tesla is worth more than all other automotive companies combined. Which of those CEOs would you like to run Tesla?
It won’t be me.
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Largest single-day drops in $TSLA history (adjusted for splits):
9/8/2020 21.1%, to $110.07
1/13/2012 19.1%, to $1.52
3/16/2020 18.6%, to $29.67
2/5/2020 17.2%, to $48.98
7/6/2010 16.4%, $1.07
3/18/2020 16.0%, to $24.08
3/10/2025 15.4%, to $222.15
12/27/2010 15.4%, to $1.70
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Tesla's Q3 deliveries were a record for any quarter ever, but here's how they compare against all prior Q3's:
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… and then Twitter suppressed the thread where you denied all of the allegations. 🤔
Why would Twitter suppress @TaraBull808 ‘s original tweet that @elonmusk replied to, denying the Business Insider hit piece based on a story they heard from a flight attendant’s actress friend??
As of midnight, it had about 10K likes and 1K retweets. 🤔
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Hey, @elonmusk :
Is the plan to assign dangerous/boring/repetitive motion tasks at Tesla factories or SpaceX facilities to production release candidate bots to test and make improvements before being sold to anyone else?
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Careful, Elon, if they change their name to Dickipedia for 30 seconds and then change it right back, a Delaware judge might rule that you have to give them the money! 😬
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
—Margaret Thatcher
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I voted Yes because if Elon can create $7T more value at Tesla, 6x’ing $TSLA, I’m good with selling him 423M more shares at $334 per share, which is the same price anyone could have bought them on September 5.
If you haven’t voted yet, please do!
If you own $TSLA shares in multiple Fidelity accounts and voted by clicking an email link from Fidelity, DON’T ASSUME the shares in all of your accounts have been voted; double check your Status column now (as shown below)— because you probably haven’t! 🧵
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Tesla has just reported 462,890 deliveries; their best ever for a Q3. Here's how that compares to all prior Q3s:
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Most people don't know how much they could reduce their risk of being in a traffic accident just by driving a Tesla and using Autopilot.
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An estimated 10 million U.S. households are “very likely or extremely likely to purchase” a Tesla as their next vehicle.
-Eddie Yoon
$TSLA @elonmusk cnbc.com/2020/01/24/tesla-to…
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One of @elonmusk ‘s favorite writers once wrote:
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
—Douglas Adams
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Hey, @elonmusk : who’s your favorite retail Tesla analyst?
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… to making fun of @MoodysInvSvc and @SPGlobalRatings for rating $TSLA speculative??
Graphic courtesy: @MmeAlexandraS
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Congratulations to @elonmusk and everyone at Tesla on passing 2,000,000 cumulative deliveries!
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Hey @elonmusk -
I love my Model 3, but...
a coworker made a solid point just now: you can probably come up with a less divisive marketing tagline than
“[buying anything else] is like buying a horse”
He suggested you spend 15 minutes brainstorming.
Maybe “Driving the future”?
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Only @elonmusk would tell his engineering team to build a semi tractor with the same turning circle and 0-60 time as a Porsche. 🤣
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BREAKING: A source has informed me that the Tesla Semi is now in limited production. Key word here is LIMITED. This has been independently corroborated by drone footage taken today (Dec 10, 2021) of the Giga Nevada Semi prod building, & sent to me.
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The bestselling car in China last year was a Tesla. Not “the bestselling EV”; the bestselling car.
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Strange how upset Elizabeth Warren got when— rather than “freeloading” (by just quietly accepting her public insults)— @elonmusk gave them right back to her.
Almost as though she didn’t want anyone accusing her of being…
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It took Tesla >10 years to sell its first 400,000 vehicles.
For the first time in its history, $TSLA has sold >400,000 vehicles *in a single quarter*. 👀
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@elonmusk is right: the world needs AVs soon.
One day, we’ll look back in horror at how unsafe it was to let people drive cars manually, the way we already can’t believe smoking was once permitted on airplanes and in doctors’ offices.
#HumanPilot #CornerCasesForKarpathy $TSLA
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Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable.
Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.
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If you own $TSLA shares in multiple Fidelity accounts and voted by clicking an email link from Fidelity, DON’T ASSUME the shares in all of your accounts have been voted; double check your Status column now (as shown below)— because you probably haven’t! 🧵
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Bob Lutz, 5 years ago today:
“The Model Y, I think, is terminally ugly. I don’t know who’s going to buy that.”
“The (Tesla) Smi is certainly never going to be built.”
… and more! 🍿
Clip courtesy: Autoline
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Hey, @elonmusk :
Be advised there's a cold weather issue with running Cat 5 to the Starlink dish.
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If you've been driving a vehicle with average safety, there's an 11.8% chance you were in a car accident over the past 5 years. But if you were driving a Tesla, there was only a 5.4% chance... unless you were using Autopilot, in which case it was only a 1.5% chance. 👀 $TSLA
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Here's how CNBC broke the news when the Tesla board announced the new 2018 CEO Compensation Plan on January 23, 2018, when Tesla was trading at a $59B market capitalization. 🔊🍿
@andrewrsorkin called it:
"dare I say crazy"
"perhaps the most radical compensation plan in history"
"impossible to game"
"if he gets to, say, $99B, he gets nothing!"
"if- somehow- magically- he would get the company to $650 billion- which is literally what the plan calls for- if you can believe this- he would collect the equivalent of about $55B"
Not only did $TSLA get to $650B, it only took 3 years! 🚀
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I found the infographic Elon was talking about. Most candy (among other processed food) brands are subsidiaries of these 10 corporations:
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What gets lost with some of my charts is the magnitude of just how many more people are buying a Tesla every year. "It's right there on the chart, James, how could we miss it?"... I hear you asking.
Well, to illustrate what I mean, here's a chart I could have posted 3 years ago yesterday:
Impressive growth, right? Yes. But that's how they all look, with very short bars for the oldest time periods. After a while, the latest updates to these charts begin to visually look the same... because every time the chart is updated, the latest record high reduces the heights of all the bars that came before: the relative magnitude never looks any more impressive, at a glance, than it did the year before.
Without a good frame of reference, it's hard to appreciate how much more Tesla is beating their previous records by.
I'll give just one example: over the past 12 months, $TSLA has increased unit sales year-over-year by >500,000 vehicles. That's more than the tallest bar shown on the chart above.
But what if you had printed out that 2020 chart on a piece of paper 3 years ago and decided to update it today?
How could you update your hard copy- with its unshrinkable scale- for the 3 most recent years of data? 🤔
Could you just lay another blank piece of paper next to it and draw the new bars in? No, Tesla has grown too much. They would be literally off-the-chart.
Well, what if you stood that piece of paper up vertically (instead of landscape)? Would they fit then? No.
So... how many pieces of paper would we have to tape together for the 3 most recent bars to fit? 🤓
Are you ready to see the chart above updated? You are not ready. 🚀
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“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”
-Warren Buffett
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Now that the world’s richest man has lost all $28B of $TSLA paper gains “added to his wealth” earlier this week, does that mean whatever was “seriously wrong with the economy” is fixed?? 🤔
Does the government owe @elonmusk some of his money back now??
Am I doing this right?
There is something seriously wrong with an economy that enables the world's richest man to add $28 billion to his wealth in a single day while more than 50% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
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And people think *Tesla* has a demand problem. 🤣
Data courtesy: @Automotive_News $TSLA
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When did NASA propulsively land 300+ boosters and re-fly them without extensive repairs?
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Although Tesla is selling significantly more cars every year- and taking substantial market share- competitors still account for more than 90% of all new car sales.
Up until recently, $TSLA has been a fairly low volume automaker able to design and manufacture products so desirable that word-of-mouth advertising alone was sufficient to grow sales at >50% per year.
Tesla's "Master Plan" since the beginning has been to make its cars more and more affordable over time, a strategy that has proven successful.
But making products people love and reducing their prices can only drive buyer interest so far, if awareness is low.
Ipsos research published last week by Drive Tesla Canada revealed exactly how severe a problem awareness is for Tesla:
80% of Americans surveyed were unaware how affordable Teslas are today.
It's a mistake to believe that anytime you cut prices, consumers are instantly notified about it. Tesla early adopters' social circles have finite reach, and lower prices cannot motivate buyers who (falsely) believe they can't afford to buy the product.
During the conference call, and on many prior occasions, @elonmusk has explained that it is a waste of money to buy ads attempting to make people who already want to buy the product want it more, if they still won't be able to afford to buy it. That's true, but incomplete, because it describes only 1 of the 8 groups into which people can be divided across the 3 binary conditions of:
Desirability (do they want to buy it?)
Affordability (do they have the means to buy it?), and
Awareness (do they know it's something they can afford to buy?)
I thought an infographic would aid this discussion, so I created a Venn diagram to illustrate my point:
People in the orange section still won't be able to afford a Tesla, but people in the green section will be happy to learn that they can!
If awareness is currently only at 20%, advertising could double the size of the pink bubble, greatly increasing demand for Tesla vehicles at current prices, among buyers who can afford them.
The blue bubble can also move up and to the left if advertising successfully dispels the misinformation preventing them from buying a Tesla. Food for thought. 🤔
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Good. Now that the heel-dragging is done, Tesla can finally appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court and get this farcical anti-shareholders’-rights ruling thrown onto the trash heap of Delaware lower court history, where it belongs. $TSLA
BREAKING 🚨 Elon Musk's $56 billion $TSLA pay package has been rejected by a Delaware judge
This comes months after Elon received shareholder approval again for the pay package...
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Maybe you missed this excellent $TSLA Cybertruck review. Maybe you only saw a short clip from it. Or maybe you're just opposed to using YouTube. Whatever your reason, if you haven't seen the whole 📐 video, I highly recommend it, if you're interested in learning more about the engineering under the hood. I mean "motorized frunk". 🤓
Link, for those who prefer youtube:
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Credits: @Hagerty owns this video, @JasonCammisa is your host, and racing legend @RandyPobst is a heck of a good sport, as usual, in a Guest starring role. Enjoy!
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“I don’t think people really realize how close fully autonomous driving is.”
-Lars Moravy
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3 years ago, you said Elon was “the amazing innovator of our time”, but now you refuse to honor his employment contract? For 6 years of work that made many of your clients wealthy? 🧐
Do you honor your commitments or do you back out once the work is done and you have your money?
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Imagine if a Delaware judge had ruled that the L.A. Lakers don’t owe Lebron James anything under the record contract they agreed to pay him because:
A) some of the Laker organization’s decision-makers are friends and relatives of the founder and
B) Lebron was rich enough already and stood to gain from endorsements and merchandise sales
That’s essentially the situation here, with perhaps the biggest difference being that the Lakers have been paying Lebron, so there would actually be money to try to clawback from Lebron; Tesla has not paid Elon any compensation in 6+ years (not even minimum wage).
“What’s the CEO compensation Tesla has been reporting in all the 10-Q’s?” I hear you asking. That’s just the GAAP accounting treatment for $2.283B of non-cash stock compensation, a Black-Scholes model projection of the value of the 2018 plan at its inception. Elon never received any of that money.
He agreed to work for nothing except the chance to buy a lot more stock in the future at the same price anybody could have bought it in March 2018. The board agreed. The shareholders agreed. He did the work. And then a Delaware judge 🪄 voided the contract.
The most salient point that was missed was that the shares could not be sold for 5 years after exercise of the options, making it impossible to “exercise and run”
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For many years, $TSLA lost money. 📉
Not anymore. 🚀
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Who's ready for my first Tesla forecast of 2023? 🤓
Haters might guess that Tesla's recent deep price cuts would wreck any prospects for 2023 earnings growth...
I hate to disappoint them 🤣, but record quarterly deliveries *and earnings* are still coming in 2023. 📈
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$TSLA has broken their all-time quarterly revenue record 25 times over the past ten years, including the most recent quarter and twice last year. 👀
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🤠 I’m goin’ to Texas, y’all!
Thanks, Martin!
I was wondering who to invite as my +1...someone who has never been to a Tesla event, but also someone who is a super important member of the community.
So I just called @ICannot_Enough, who, if you can believe it, has never attended a Tesla event. Apparently, he'll be showing up!
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$TSLA hodlers focused on earnings growth through a bear market.
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