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We'll all know if it's more than pure marketing if they raise the bonds and secure the corporate alliances necessary to build this. Convincing Panasonic is no
by josh-wrale 13y ago
We'll all know if it's more than pure marketing if they raise the bonds and secure the corporate alliances necessary to build this. Convincing Panasonic is no small feat, IMHO.
- hnnewguy 13y agoI'm not talking about the Gigafactory itself being marketing. They've been talking about it for the past two quarterly conference calls. It looks like something that is going to go ahead, somehow, at some point. What is full-blown marketing is Tesla releasing a 6 page pdf that has no build site, no financial details, very little information of any kind, a bare-bones artist's rendering of a hypothetical location, and what look like unrealistic projections regarding build capacity. Much like the Hyperloop paper, there's very little substance. But it makes the rounds of the internet, conveniently coinciding with a share dilution. Musk is clever in more ways than one.
- makomk 13y agoThe projections of build capacity look to be roughly what's needed in order for Tesla to actually achieve the growth investors are hoping for. If they're not realistic, then I reckon Tesla's growth is going to be severely and abruptly curtailed in the future.