Inside EVs asked Musk the most important question (Thank You!)

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Musk responded:

“Our headcount in 12 months will probably be significantly higher than today, due to adding lots of people to manufacturing, engineering and service.”

We know Model 3 outsold all vehicles in for the 2nd half of 2018 in CA. And we know CR's actual subscribers rated it higher than everything else. And we know now Musk was right it is the best car or vehicle for the money you can buy and right now the real costs are right on top of Honda and Accord even though it is a better car and outsold them for the last 6 months we have data for in CA and of course outsold the F-150 in CA by 40% (round up) over that period and did this when cars were supposed to be down and SUV and Trucks were supposed to be more popular than cars.

But what makes Insideevs question so insightful and important is one might wonder in the midst of so much FUD how Tesla would sell with out advertising, test drives and referral programs? Well we know sponsored advertising is stupid (aimed not a products but at speech enclosure and media capture for law capture- its society destroying,) and we know Teslas have such overwhelming advantages that they sell themselves but no test drives? Well we know that there are about half a million Teslas out there and Tesla might have have hit a threshold on automatic sales just due to exposure. And we know Tesla could save a ton going to more of a Amazon like model but was this a contraction or an expansion especially when FUD purveyor Wired tried to say Model Y was 2-3 years off immediately after? Well it looks like is its pure expansion especially after we just learned Munro thinks the margin on the base Model 3 is %25. Aside from service and pick centers and galleries Tesla is automating out the retail side. If you really must test a Tesla you can take them up on the joyride test period or rent one or maybe or maybe select a Model 3 in Uber use- not the same as driving it but its a taste.

 

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Musk responded:

“Our headcount in 12 months will probably be significantly higher than today, due to adding lots of people to manufacturing, engineering and service.”

We know Model 3 outsold all vehicles in for the 2nd half of 2018 in CA. And we know CR's actual subscribers rated it higher than everything else. And we know now Musk was right it is the best car or vehicle for the money you can buy and right now the real costs are right on top of Honda and Accord even though it is a better car and outsold them for the last 6 months we have data for in CA and of course outsold the F-150 in CA by 40% (round up) over that period and did this when cars were supposed to be down and SUV and Trucks were supposed to be more popular than cars.

But what makes Insideevs question so insightful and important is one might wonder in the midst of so much FUD how Tesla would sell with out advertising, test drives and referral programs? Well we know sponsored advertising is stupid (aimed not a products but at speech enclosure and media capture for law capture- its society destroying,) and we know Teslas have such overwhelming advantages that they sell themselves but no test drives? Well we know that there are about half a million Teslas out there and Tesla might have have hit a threshold on automatic sales just due to exposure. And we know Tesla could save a ton going to more of a Amazon like model but was this a contraction or an expansion especially when FUD purveyor Wired tried to say Model Y was 2-3 years off immediately after? Well it looks like is its pure expansion especially after we just learned Munro thinks the margin on the base Model 3 is %25. Aside from service and pick centers and galleries Tesla is automating out the retail side. If you really must test a Tesla you can take them up on the joyride test period or rent one or maybe or maybe select a Model 3 in Uber use- not the same as driving it but its a taste.

That was me on the call. Just so people know the question, I asked, "This seems, like, hugely disruptive. So do you expect to open more service centers and will that increase jobs like to handle demand and deliver customers directly to deliver cars directly to customers."
(the strikethrough is the part where I started to mix up my words because I was super nervous.)

The response from Elon was, "Oh yeah, that was a good point. We will actually be significantly increasing headcount in service technicians and service is directly reporting to me. At this point but I really have as my top priority this year is making service amazing at Tesla."

Unfortunately, my point was not picked up upon by the press, as far as I've noticed. There has been mention of people losing their jobs in retail stores, but the press generally skipped over the part where they will be opening more service centers to make this new approach work and, of course, hiring or moving people from stores. Overall, the headcount may slightly decrease, or even rise, but expensive store leases will be replaced by more affordable service center leases.

 

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Well they will find out! the model 3 price wise in CA the pivotal market in the US in now on top of Camry and Accord and all things considered Hyundai Sonata- its right on top of the heart of ICE car wise there. And Tesla can mass produce them and outsell them like it did once it got up and running last year. It will hit their dealers hard and send shock waves through them. It already is. Now they are out with both barrels to stop Musk and Tesla. They do not want the rest of the vehicle line up released they want a puppet who will delay without limit so they can say when enough time has passed that was never feasible and it wouldn't work. The US economy is based on two murderous frauds, one is Capitalism (dead now for 50 years- just the corpse but the alive entity wasn't any better than its zombie) and the heart of that travesty just as petrified and unworkable: fossil fuels. They are incredibly weak now with super tankers on average crossing the oceans empty one leg of the journey where they used to cross both ways full and with Saudi Arabia trying to sell off all of its remaining petrol for a fire sale but apparently still priced challenged 2 trillion. They don't want Musk to be the face of this stuff any more than AOC. One reason they don't like Musk is he understands 0 fossil fuels, not low carbon nonsense that allows them get away with everything they've been getting away with.

Can you imagine they actual foot the bill to sink the super takers down into the water with sea water because they don't want them prancing around obviously empty- but they also pollute when they do that, and none of us believe they need this for stability- that stability has to cost them money because (unless I am guessing wrong) wind friction is less than in-compressible water in friction and costs. And they have to pollute the international waters with flushing those empty oil balloon all the time.