Lutz in a Swiss-German article

[bwilson4web]

I recommend using Google Chrome to read their English translation of a four part interview:
https://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/long-read/das-schicksal-von-tesla-ist-besiegelt#page

I am not a fan of Bob Lutz and this interview does nothing to change my opinion. I'm waiting for the 2019 - Q2 financials in a week. Meanwhile, the Swiss Bank, UBS, has not changed their opinion of Tesla profitability ... or at least not that I've seen.

Bob Wilson

 

[Domenick]

Page two is where he is asked about Tesla with, um, ...interesting results. Basically, he says Tesla suffers from demand issues and that it only sold 80K - 90K Model 3's (cumulatively, Tesla had sold 209,196 Model 3 by the end of Q2 2019).

Google translation of key paragraph: "The fate of Tesla is sealed. The situation is almost hopeless given the losses they are currently writing. Demand has given way. Tesla had 400,000 pre-orders for the Model 3. In fact, they only sold 80,000 or 90,000 of them, and they have trouble selling more. (Editor's note: According to Tesla, this is Bob's statement.) According to Tesla, Tesla also stresses that Model 3 is meeting growing demand, and the fact is that in the second quarter of 2019, Tesla delivered 77,550 units of the world-wide market Vehicle off)."

He also says Model S is 10 years old (it's 7), and the Model X is ugly.

 

[interestedinEV]

What about the caliper metric where he measured door gaps. Did he forget about it?