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Did you see what Tesla announced at their battery conference yesterday?

by jliptzin 6y ago

Someone1234 6y ago
No. Did they announce a cost reduction in their vehicles?
- Gibbon1 6y ago
  I think they threw out a guesstimate being able to sell a low end model for around $25k three years from now.
  - QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
    Musk said the same thing years ago. He’s a chronic liar and/or an over-promising, under-delivering salesman.
    - jliptzin 6y ago
      Really? The model 3 is an excellent vehicle that everyone dismissed and said would never come to fruition
      - dublin 6y ago
        The quality surveys and several owners I know would beg to differ. Tesla has had, and continues to have, horrendous quality issues. Don't get me wrong, Tesla does do some things well, and they're certainly not afraid to innovate, but they're anything but "excellent vehicles". I don't know a single Model S owner that hasn't had the door handles fail. It's a $900 repair, unless you haggle with them for weeks ant threaten to sue them, at which point they'll agree to pay for it, because Tesla knows they don't work. Oh, and a tire/wheel budget of $3000+ a year is pretty excessive, too. (On Teslas, both are notoriously unable to withstand potholes and dips that even other cars with low-profile tires can just drive over. All that battery weight is a really bad combo with low-profile tires and thin-cast wheels.)
        jliptzin 6y ago
        I have a model 3 and am extremely happy with it and so is everyone else I know that owns a tesla
    - Gibbon1 6y ago
      Would appear the people working for him have a history of delivering though.
- adrianmonk 6y ago
  Elon Musk said they expect to "halve" the costs of batteries. This is due to a new battery design, manufacturing changes, vertical integration. https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450916/tesla-battery-pack-elon-musk-price-kilowatt-hour-ev-cost-tabless https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450916/tesla-battery-pa...
  - sagarm 6y ago
    Elon Musk has a reputation for overselling and underdelivering, so there doesn't mean much.
    - rcMgD2BwE72F 6y ago
      One decade ago, he said Tesla would be delivering 500,000 EV in 2020. This looks more and more probable as we get closer to EOY. That's the most important criteria to evaluate the success of Tesla (in addition to profitability). I'd say he's been the most reliable executive in the industry. No wonder why he's the CEO in auto with the longest tenure.

Did you see what Tesla announced at their battery conference yesterday?

Someone1234 6y ago

No. Did they announce a cost reduction in their vehicles?

Gibbon1 6y ago
I think they threw out a guesstimate being able to sell a low end model for around $25k three years from now.
- QuixoticQuibit 6y ago
  Musk said the same thing years ago. He’s a chronic liar and/or an over-promising, under-delivering salesman.
  - jliptzin 6y ago
    Really? The model 3 is an excellent vehicle that everyone dismissed and said would never come to fruition
    - dublin 6y ago
      The quality surveys and several owners I know would beg to differ. Tesla has had, and continues to have, horrendous quality issues. Don't get me wrong, Tesla does do some things well, and they're certainly not afraid to innovate, but they're anything but "excellent vehicles". I don't know a single Model S owner that hasn't had the door handles fail. It's a $900 repair, unless you haggle with them for weeks ant threaten to sue them, at which point they'll agree to pay for it, because Tesla knows they don't work. Oh, and a tire/wheel budget of $3000+ a year is pretty excessive, too. (On Teslas, both are notoriously unable to withstand potholes and dips that even other cars with low-profile tires can just drive over. All that battery weight is a really bad combo with low-profile tires and thin-cast wheels.)
      - jliptzin 6y ago
        I have a model 3 and am extremely happy with it and so is everyone else I know that owns a tesla
  - Gibbon1 6y ago
    Would appear the people working for him have a history of delivering though.
adrianmonk 6y ago
Elon Musk said they expect to "halve" the costs of batteries. This is due to a new battery design, manufacturing changes, vertical integration. https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450916/tesla-battery-pack-elon-musk-price-kilowatt-hour-ev-cost-tabless https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21450916/tesla-battery-pa...
- sagarm 6y ago
  Elon Musk has a reputation for overselling and underdelivering, so there doesn't mean much.
  - rcMgD2BwE72F 6y ago
    One decade ago, he said Tesla would be delivering 500,000 EV in 2020. This looks more and more probable as we get closer to EOY. That's the most important criteria to evaluate the success of Tesla (in addition to profitability). I'd say he's been the most reliable executive in the industry. No wonder why he's the CEO in auto with the longest tenure.