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Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoBut I was told that the Cybertruck would outsell the F-150!
- lotsofpulp 2y agoModel 3 and Y have composed of 95%+ of Tesla’s deliveries for at least a few years. No serious analysis would have concluded Cybertruck to be anything other than a rounding error.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoMusk said they'd sell 250k-500k a year to shareholders. They're running at what - 10pct of that - so that seems like a fair comment.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoI don’t see how anyone could put stock in anything Musk claims, he has a very long history of making bombastic claims.
- JohnFen 2y ago> making bombastic claims Also known as "lying".
- 4ndrewl 2y agoHe said it at shareholder meeting. You'd expect a higher level of probity when addressing the people who own your business? Unless he wasn't being straight with them?
- lotsofpulp 2y agoI would not expect it from Musk, based on his previous behavior.
- steveharman 2y agoAs he's an officer of a public company, isn't this kind of wildly inaccurate prediction covered by some kind of law?
- 4ndrewl 2y agoFor all practical purposes he's above the law.
- Damogran6 2y agoI think Denver's status as a hub for IT, Telco, Aviation/Aerospace may skew things a bit, but the town is _lousy_ with Tesla products. Cybertruck included. And I think this period of time is going to be underscored by the guilt of good products helmed by questionable people. Musk, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, all have either produced or led thousands of people to produce good things. And then they got rich enough to let their filter drop? I dunno how to exactly phrase it.
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- malfist 2y agoCriticizing Telsa is permitted
- MOARDONGZPLZ 2y agoMaybe, but this highly tech adjacent post about a tech company with a tech ceo that paints Tesla in a bad light is now no longer on the front page, and is flagged.
- detectd 2y agoCriticizing any company is permitted, right?
- SEJeff 2y agoElektrec is Fred's blog and he went from the biggest tesla fanboi to Tesla critic the day that Elon told him to knock it off. It is in general poor opinion blogging masquerading as a news website.
- horsawlarway 2y agoThe entire article is just the actual delivery numbers without all that much else. Where is the opinion? Here is CNBC citing the same numbers (incl basically the same investor expectations): https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-2025-vehicle-delivery-and-production-numbers.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-2025-vehicle-d...
- SEJeff 2y agoDupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556443
- pzo 2y agofor some reason both posts got flagged...
- morkalork 2y agoIs that including the fraudulent sales in Canada or no?
- bloopernova 2y agoFor those making the inevitable comments on flagging: use this page instead of the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active
- rstuart4133 2y agoOne view of this is HN sports two ranking algorithms: the front page and /active. A few months after discovering /active, I found I was not looking at the front page. I've come to the conclusion it's gamed (not by HN of course, but the various tribes flighting for attention), and yes the primary mechanism for that is flagging. Having two ranking algorithms is very bluesky'ish in some ways, and thank $DIETY it does. The front page reminds me of other sites that have voting systems. I don't know how to describe it - but I get the sense they all tend to favour articles the tribes like fighting about. /active has much less of that feel. The comments on HN also suffer from the same tribal warfare effect - with the comments the tribes like fighting over rising to the top. That isn't so bad - because it means you can often just skip the top couple of comments to go fossicking for the insightful gems.
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- philk10 2y agoand that was Q1....
- dstroot 2y agoI was charging at a supercharger in Las Vegas on my way to California on Monday. While sitting in my vehicle a police car rolled up and asked me to roll down my window. The officer then asked if there was anything suspicious or concerning that I noticed. I said no and he said good we are trying to stay ahead of it. Until that moment I hadn’t really worried about Tesla protests and vandalism.
- jlongr 2y agoSell your car. You're driving around a swastika with wheels.
- fragmede 2y agoswasticar was right there!
- spwa4 2y agoThe problem is: people don't care. In case you don't believe that: look up Volkswagen history (as if the name wasn't enough of a hint) and I think you will agree that Tesla may be a swasticar ... it's not the first swasticar.
- omnimus 2y agoOr Ford.
- ttepasse 2y agoBut current Volkswagen leader- and ownership is not nazi, unlike Tesla. VW in effect was re-founded after the war by the British military administration as a trust and only privatised into a public company in the 1960s. The biggest shareholders of BMW on the other hand are still the Quandt family whose grandfather Günther Quandt definitely was Nazi member, collaborator, donator and massively profiteered from the slave labour by concentration camp victims and prisoners of war.
- rsynnott 2y ago
- Mr_Eri_Atlov 2y agoElon lies 24/7, if you were an investor who seriously believed that the dumpster truck that was over $100k would be a big seller you deserve this loss
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