Tesla Moves Into Trucking

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[Nefertiti]

[Empedocles]

Agreed on his pushing the envelope.
Smart man. A wee bit too optimistic but nevertheless smart.

[Georgesoros]

Robina,
Keep salivating. Just make sure it doesn't show . Tesla is the new Uber, except they actually make stuff.

[Nefertiti]

Parkerpen, would say Uber is a tech or transport company? How about Airbnb - tech or housing?

[Georgesoros]

Tesla must make  equipment that is cheaper to maintain, otherwise they'll go out cold. In twenty they'll own the biggest lithium battery centers, charging stations, rooftop solar panels, etc.
AirBnB owns no hospitality building yet they are the biggest hotel co.
Uber owns nothing other than the tech people use.
Amazon and Alibaba are the largest retail operators yet own very little 4-corner space.

Robina. Wheres your boasting???

[Nefertiti]

Tesla must make  equipment that is cheaper to maintain, otherwise they'll go out cold. In twenty they'll own the biggest lithium battery centers, charging stations, rooftop solar panels, etc.
AirBnB owns no hospitality building yet they are the biggest hotel co.
Uber owns nothing other than the tech people use.
Amazon and Alibaba are the largest retail operators yet own very little 4-corner space.

Robina. Wheres your boasting???

My word is that they are sales companies. They are quite easy to duplicate. Tesla actually cuts metal. There is no proper invention since Einstein even in space. I hope at some point in the near future we will have teleports and time engineering.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

My excitement in Musk is his pushing the envelope. He forces an innovation race. It's what we need.

I agree that's good.  I wish he could put his envelope pushing energies into quantum computing.

[veritas]

that's gay as f. who's gonna drive that? i personally would fear for my safety driving that on some lonely highway.

[Nefertiti]

that's gay as f. who's gonna drive that? i personally would fear for my safety driving that on some lonely highway.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/17/wal-mart-says-its-planning-to-test-teslas-new-electric-trucks.html

[Nefertiti]

Ooh veri. I agree there's no pressing urgency for hunky semis but what the heck!

Canadian grocery chain orders 25 Tesla electric Semi trucks

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/18/canadian-grocery-chain-orders-25-tesla-electric-semi-trucks/

[Empedocles]

I kind of fear trucks that can go from 0-100km/h in 5 secs on our roads.

[veritas]

Ooh veri. I agree there's no pressing urgency for hunky semis but what the heck!

Canadian grocery chain orders 25 Tesla electric Semi trucks

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/18/canadian-grocery-chain-orders-25-tesla-electric-semi-trucks/

This jama copy-cats all his concepts from the late Steve Jobs... I noticed all of his designs revolve around iphones.







Problem is these industries thrive on experience and not quackery.

[veritas]

Concept vehicles are so common it's no joke. Check out Volvo's 2050 concept truck.

[veritas]

This one's by Nikola...



http://performancedrive.com.au/top-10-wild-visions-trucking-future-1800/



oh, Walmart have their own ? perhaps Elon forgot to mention the 6500 trucks Walmart uses... as opposed to the dozen he donated...

what I noticed about Elon groupies - they are disenfranchised iphones. They're just so not happy with Apple at the moment... so they've latched onto their next Messiah - Elon. To them iphones were the best smart phones in the world because it was marketed by Apple, nevermind the fact HTC were the first makers of smart phones and their ingenuity even now kick an iphone's sorry butt. You think an iphone copycat Elon can compete with experience and history? trucks come from the industrial revolution, wartime, NAZIs, this is dark history and Elon just hasn't spilt enough blood to get past more than a gimmick.

[Nefertiti]

veri i agree Musk's is a cult. He took over from Steve Jobs as an expert marketer with the "real-life Iron Man", etc - personality branding. He has fan pages and groups on reddit and google circles This is why analysts struggle to comprehend a 1% of market company beats GM in value. Mary Barra hates Elon - if you look closely at her interviews you will see her frustration - she says Tesla gets a free pass for incompetence.

Personally I don't see anything creative in auto designs. The electric and safety is what is useful. I am the sole objective Musk fan.