Tesla short sellers are buying shares to cover their short positions like crazy — but the short burn hasn’t even begun. Tesla is the most shorted stock on the market. With the drop from around 45 million shares shorted to around 30 million shorts have decreased the size of their position by about a third, […]
Oh man, this is just too good. If you read one article today, make it this one. In this amazing feature length cover story for German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel Germany begins to wake up and ask itself: Is it too late to save the German auto industry? You can read the full article […]
At the PyTorch developer conference on October 10, 2019, Andrej Karpathy announced that Navigate on Autopilot has been engaged for over 1 billion miles and has completed 200 million automatic lane changes. (He wrote 200,000 on the slide, but there’s no way there have been less lane changes than Smart Summon attempts). Navigate on Autopilot […]
One common misconception about the machine learning process behind Tesla’s Autopilot is that the “learning” is happening in the car. While the Tesla Full Self Driving Computer chip in your car does do some work in the learning process by processing data triggers, most of the heavy lifting is done centrally by Tesla in their […]
Let’s take a look at the top 20 best selling vehicle models in the United States in 2018. Notice anything about what kind of cars are selling? North America loves Trucks & SUVs The first thing that sticks out to me is that the best selling cars are all pickup trucks and SUVs. As much […]
Leaked on Chinese social media, this screenshot shows order confirmation emails pouring in for the Made in China Model 3
They take care of the customers who support them as much as possible. They really do care about delighting the customer. Via Twitter
One of the most interesting Tesla software updates that rolled out in 2019 was support for Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube in Tesla’s V10 update. When people saw these third party user interfaces running in full screen on their Tesla, a lot of people started imagining what other apps they’d like to have in their car. […]
Here’s a prediction from @AustinCooper90: Prediction. The Cybertruck will use the same Tesla Armor glass that’s on the Semi. This is how I read Elon’s “literally bulletproof” comment. @elonmusk @Gfilche @vincent13031925 @28delayslater @tesla_truth — Austin Cooper 🧢 (@AustinCooper90) November 9, 2019 We’ll find out if he’s onto something in less than two weeks.
