Tesla pros No advertising but best marketing No dealers No unions- (labor and by extension capital has been over for 50 years and the unions are fossil fuel corrupted) No fossil fuel hit- actually takes credits No sunk cost in old factories No revenue to lose in the 10-18x autonomy vehicle reduction No market share to lose in 10-18x autonomy vehicle reduction No negative goodwill from fossil fuels Massive mind share from Musk Most exciting vehicle line up in the history of the industry Vertical integration and margin savings right down into mining real estate and battery production No extraneous models Best over the air update A cost customer cutter for internet (Starlink soon) and power/fuel, insurance and maintenance A time saver on commutes autonomy, maintenance, much less time wasted at service stations Originator in the market of a new energy basis- a complete cord cutting replacement Green cred About to hit center of huge markets and market segments About to be on 3 continents Highest performance vehicles Highest safety vehicles Further along on autonomy- only Google competes Integrated energy from roof top to utility scale and batteries will apparently enter HVAC Benefits from star link Massive influence just introducing leading product designs Not a profit first company but a mission first company that gives its products a huge value advantage Utterly dominated the high end of the market for coming up on a decade- hitting midmarket just as hard Much lower manufacturing energy costs Much greener energy manufacturing costs Huge advantage with software Huge advantage with charging network Still has fastest charging on V3 (Porsche charging is actually slower but a good bit- not even close to 1000mph- look at the better reviews on this. Has its own autonomy fleet figured out and stocked through recovery of leased Model 3s Million mile battery figured out- integrating super caps- its coming battery tech sounds better than Toyota's solid state specs Convoy tech on semi beats rail economics economics CEO will work for free if value not generated- in contract Highest pace of innovation First viable solar roof panels Revolutionary $50 a month solar- rental model no strings Tesla is literally destroying BMW Beginning to exceed speed of announced product deadlines- you never see that elsewhere World class panel gaps (per Bob Lutz) Much improved paints Tons of converted critics like Monroe Best EV margins by far No longer needs fed EV rebates Tesla is the best positioned foreign producer in China Tesla sales are up when everyone else's are down way down Tesla revenue set to leap up again with China coming on line Massive success in Norway, Netherlands Switzerland UK, AU Own autonomy chip Huge advantage on real world autonomy miles collected- strong on simulated miles Huge advantage with real world autonomy deployment Tesla autonomy tech is not geo-fence restricted Tesla much more sought out by best grads than any competitor Never had more stable financial footing Not subject to ICE climate litigation like competitors Much less not invented here syndrome Highest resale values Highest customer satisfaction Highest customer goodwill Most prestigious brand Best social media presence Highest valued US automaker by market Most anticipated new vehicle with pickup Tesla has flattened lines of communication Easiest lines of public feedback Tesla has most activist share holders Tesla provides real value doesn't gouge or nickel and dime Tesla's solutions harden against climate change Tesla provides full scope solutions to cord cutters Tesla has new factories and it is not in built out markets Tesla provides a way for people leave ICE makes Almost all Tesla vehicles are autonomy ready Tesla benefits from association with SpaceX and Boring Tesla's energy products are radically superior to anything the fossil fuel incumbents will ever be able to offer- much quicker, radically cheaper, radically more reliable. Momentum is with Tesla Expectations and psychological outlook for ICE makes are negative by contract quite positive with Tesla ICE maker cons continued below
cont Tesla will have clean out and town charging ------------------------------------------------- ICE Maker Cons ICE competitors tend to be led by people without the requisite education and without the requisite drive without the requisite vision with a profit vice mission focus that makes them weak with a lot of cognitive dissonance over obsolete sunk cost that they can't write off with work forces without the requisite skill set with massively diluted share basis with some of the firms paying massive idiotic dividends with the market seeing through it and still tanking the share price (Ford) and with dealers that insist on designed to fail products and with exec and board members from the fossil fuel cartels or interlinked fossil boards or families. Some are caught up in huge lawsuits. And some have marketing departments like BMW (seems it is BMW) that stick to Albert Spears press manual type tactics where in dishonest indirect but persistent ways they try to paint competitor's strengths as weaknesses even if based on their own comparative weaknesses like BMW's endless vehicle fires facing global injunctions and most are stuck in model year mote type thinking where they tic tic tic tock tic tic tic tock, tesla is tock tock tock tock... so most are way behind on tech. Most don't know how to cut costs and when they do it it is for the wrong reason (profit) at the expense of quality. Most have outsourced the relevant core competencies- they are vitamin labels. They can't cut costs for the right reasons because they are about profit for extractive cronies, so they can't do higher quality product at decreasing costs so they simply endlessly cannibalize their organizations and products. They believe they are too big to fail and hide behind jobs as they beg their government to socialize the losses of their ongoing structural bankruptcies. The competitor organizations tend to be unintelligent in their ideology. They tend to be about the religion called 'leadership' which makes them cult like and blind, running on superficial personality/charisma contests but when challenged they project this stuff onto competitors. These are sheep models. Leadership is delusion. No one that would qualify for the title would ever be accept it. It is a mixture of extreme vision and extreme ethical development or comparatively very high maturity rare like Ghandi(s,) Mandela(s) and MLK(s) Despite having a still motivated vested founder with some nano characteristics Tesla is still much closer to a leaderless, trustless (therefore trustable) system than its ICE competitors which are comparative vanity fairs The core of every ICE firm is to further enrich with ill-gotten gain some disconnected insulated indemnified non- contributing rich parasites that put everyone including themselves and their own families at risk while staying atop a wonton game of corruption while exploiting the people that make it possible. Brain dead systems run by clueless for clueless with souls made of nepotism, cronyism, bribery, blackmail and lies- entities that argue against seat belts and argue against airbags entities that put lead in the gas.... unlike Tesla which takes risks and spends and puts money at risk for the benefit of all these firms abuse the power inherent in money. Organizations can change- VW and MB seem to be going in the right direction right now, still uncertain about Ford and GM. BMW seems to be going backwards. Harder to say about the rest. Hearing that a lot of the FUD on Tesla is coming through through catch-n-kill CNBC (aka anti-neutrality Comcast) also through Florida (Fox case lie to the public precedent setter) with a handful of supposed culprits (a foreign state with fossil fuel economy tied to FB elections manipulations) and BMW and from stuff that was made public not long ago what remains of the Koch duo. And through a court case we saw a coal executive and an oil executive Montana skeptic. But the fudster short losses still have to be around 25 billion so far betting against Tesla- no matter what most of them are far in the red (even if some have almost endless money to spend for a while longer) and their case is dissolving. So they are burning out sensitivity to criticism of Tesla- they whine about Autopilot when its 8.5x less crashes with it on right now and approaching he magic 10x.