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Tesla does not spend money with advertisers, so "automotive news agencies" are always going to print articles like to to try to keep the money coming in. Tesla

Tesla does not spend money with advertisers, so "automotive news agencies" are always going to print articles like to to try to keep the money coming in. Tesla is the only [non Chinese] company to get massive mining contracts so they can build the millions and millions of cars that Austin and Berlin will each be making annually. All this while Ford and GM will be producing tens of thousands of EV's, which is as many as they can buy batteries from their supplier for. Ford and GM are claiming to spend billions on battery plants to make batteries that are already obsolete, and have no source for the raw materials to make these out-dated batteries. Ford/GM/Stalantis are dead and are going through the motions to get as many CEO paychecks and stock pricing going as possible until the next bailout. Rinse Repeat.

itsoktocry 4y ago
>Tesla does not spend money with advertisers, so "automotive news agencies" are always going to print articles like to to try to keep the money coming in. Tesla doesn't spend money with traditional advertisers. They have a marketing budget, you can see it in their financials. >Tesla is the only [non Chinese] company to get massive mining contracts What "massive" mining contracts do they have? >which is as many as they can buy batteries from their supplier for. Tesla buys batteries from third parties like everyone else. >Ford/GM/Stalantis are dead and are going through the motions to get as many CEO paychecks and stock pricing going as possible until the next bailout. Rinse Repeat. Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention?
- MarkusQ 4y ago
  > Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention? I see what you did there: comparing Hyundai's current numbers to Tesla's numbers from ten years ago (when they were a startup). I'm sure you could make a similar argument to make it sound like Barns and Nobels was beating the paints off Amazon. For a more realistic comparison, Hyundai sold ~50K EVs in Q1 2022, and Tesla sold ~300K in the same period.
- hackernewds 4y ago
  Tesla does massive conferences and reveal events. Not to mention, a significant chunk of Musk's personal and professional time is spent marketing Tesla (on Twitter or on media) to the levels rarely seen of CEOs - given his paycheck, that is a significant amount of marketing $.

itsoktocry 4y ago

>Tesla does not spend money with advertisers, so "automotive news agencies" are always going to print articles like to to try to keep the money coming in. Tesla doesn't spend money with traditional advertisers. They have a marketing budget, you can see it in their financials. >Tesla is the only [non Chinese] company to get massive mining contracts What "massive" mining contracts do they have? >which is as many as they can buy batteries from their supplier for. Tesla buys batteries from third parties like everyone else. >Ford/GM/Stalantis are dead and are going through the motions to get as many CEO paychecks and stock pricing going as possible until the next bailout. Rinse Repeat. Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention?

MarkusQ 4y ago
> Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention? I see what you did there: comparing Hyundai's current numbers to Tesla's numbers from ten years ago (when they were a startup). I'm sure you could make a similar argument to make it sound like Barns and Nobels was beating the paints off Amazon. For a more realistic comparison, Hyundai sold ~50K EVs in Q1 2022, and Tesla sold ~300K in the same period.
hackernewds 4y ago
Tesla does massive conferences and reveal events. Not to mention, a significant chunk of Musk's personal and professional time is spent marketing Tesla (on Twitter or on media) to the levels rarely seen of CEOs - given his paycheck, that is a significant amount of marketing $.