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  1. Mar 2024
  2. Dec 2023
  3. Feb 2023
    1. Tesla will offer a software update free of charge to customers, the agency said.

      Aren't these updates pushed over the air?

      So now every time someone releases a software update, media is going to call it a recall? 🤔

  4. Jan 2022
  5. Nov 2021
    1. SAL KHAN: Right, exactly. ELON MUSK: Because for sure failure is one of the possibilities. But, ideally, you want to try to bracket it and say success is in the envelope of outcomes. And I wasn't quite sure if that was the case. I think success on an academic level would have been quite likely, because you can publish some useless paper--

      Kalau Anda Elon Musk, Anda bisa bicara apa saja. :) Tapi memang mendekatkan sains agar lebih dekat dengan aplikasi memang sulit. Apalagi kalau sejak awal produk yang menjadi target ya hanya makalah :) https://youtu.be/vDwzmJpI4io

  6. Sep 2021
    1. We don't need the threat of repo men to keep you paying your car note – miss a Tesla payment and your car will phone home and lock its doors. When the tow arrives, it will flash its lights, honk its horn and back out of its parking space for repossession.

      The technology in advanced cars like the Tesla can be used for repossessing them. Is this an intended or unintended consequence?

  7. Oct 2020
    1. So far this year, regulatory credits account for $1.18 billion, or 7% of total automotive revenue.

      But unlike revenue these are pure profit ...

    2. Revenue rose to a record $8.77 billion from $6.30 billion a year earlier. Analysts had expected revenue of $8.36 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.Excluding items, Tesla posted a profit of 76 cents per share. It reported net income of $331 million, or $874 million excluding stock-based compensation awards given to Musk.Revenue from the sale of regulatory credits made up $397 million. Without that revenue, Tesla would not have achieved a profitable quarter.
  8. Jul 2020
  9. May 2019
    1. Elon Musk, with a $2.3 billion package

      More accurately: $0 package, UNLESS value of company goes up 18 fold, to $650 billion, at which point it seems fair to let him have 0.5% of that....

      Makes one wonder if the other pay packages are equally misrepresented, here, and perhaps the entire conclusion is flawed.

    1. The pay package Tesla promised to Elon Musk was so large, we had to add an extra dimension to the chart below to display it accurately

      It would be relevant here and should be mentioned that Elon Musk's compensation is conditioned on enormous growth of the company, and he receives nothing if that does not happen.

    1. If you do the math

      Here is the math: 2020-2023 4 years (Jan 1-Dec 31). 1 million annual is 4 million. That is way more than the 1.7 million

    2. four

      3 million vehicles divided by 4 years divided by 500,000 per factory makes less than two factories in my book.

  10. Mar 2019
    1. Given that a lot is happening in Q1, we do not expect to be profitable in the first quarter

      Probably the stocks will drop a lot when announced, buy after that. Should recover in next quarter.

  11. Jan 2019
    1. Blockchains are NOT about cutting computational costs (at least relative to centralized servers). Blockchains are about incurring a sacrifice in the form of INCREASED computational costs to achieve a *decrease* in *social costs*.

      <big>评:</big><br/><br/>「区块链以增加计算成本为代价来降低社会成本」,这样的论断让人联想到前几年有关新能源汽车的讨论。新能源汽车的 per unit actual consumption 不一定比内燃机车辆低,但人们寄厚望于它的 social benefit。<br/><br/>我们现在已经知道,区块链会把人类带向一个新世界。试追问:区块链就是这个「世界」本身吗?又或者只是新世界的运行规则?大脑在变得更加聪明,而思维在变得更加固化,已然练就了一种表述:每个世界都要有自己的运行法则。<br/><br/>在上述疑问尚无共识之前,我们不妨先关注一下特斯拉的股价?

  12. Jul 2017
  13. May 2017
    1. At full capacity, the factory is set to produce batteries faster than the rate of bullets leaving a machine gun.

      Okay, I literally cannot imagine this!

  14. Feb 2017
    1. So Kick, without any regard to his expensive Tesla Model S, pulled ahead of the swerving car and created a barrier so it could be stopped.

      Incredible!

  15. Sep 2016
    1. The Tesla accident in May, researchers say, was not a failure of computer vision. But it underscored the limitations of the science in applications like driverless cars despite remarkable progress in recent years, fueled by digital data, computer firepower and software inspired by the human brain.

      Testing annotations. Interesting statement.