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Tesla Motors Inc. has set an unrealistic goal for itself and will probably miss 2018 production forecasts by a whopping 66 percent, according to a report Wednesday by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Should that dissuade you from buying the stock? Apparently not—the bank's analysts upgraded their recommendation from "Neutral" to "Buy."
Tesla announced Wednesday that it's selling another $1.4 billion in stock to help fund the company's expansion. That's about $400 million more than Goldman Sachs analyst Patrick Archambault had anticipated in his report earlier in the day, though the difference left the stock little changed. Joseph Spak, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said the capital round was about $100 million less than his forecast, though it comes more than a year sooner than expected. "The amount is just right," wrote Ben Kallo of Robert W. Baird & Co.
Tesla’s explanation of its proposal to acquire Solar City, another Elon Musk project, offers a compelling vision: Get energy from the sun, use and store it in the home, charge your car with it. “The world’s only vertically integrated energy company offering end-to-end clean energy products to our customers” will, however, be a very expensive doughnut with an assumption in the middle.
Diese Technologie (Lithium-ion) ist seit 15 Jahren auf dem Markt. Weltweit arbeiten Dutzende von Firmen an neueren Technologien (billiger, höhere Energie dichte etc.)Tesla is betting on the right battery technology and no one will come up with a much better one.
Eine gewagte Aussage, basierend auf dem Prinzip HoffnungHe (Musk) expressed confidence that if any disruptive technology emerged, it would be offered to his company.
It’s hard to justify that confidence. Bigger car manufacturers have deeper pockets, and, unlike Tesla, which is using stock to buy Solar City, they are cash-rich. Besides, for a truly disruptive battery tech company, there would be a strong temptation to license its technology to several carmakers or raise money to make the batteries on its own. A small firm -- like Spain’s Graphenano, for example -- could emerge as the owner of the intellectual property that allows for cheap energy storage and fast charging, and it might prefer to own the market while it can rather than work with Tesla the way its current battery partner, Panasonic, does.
For its batteries, Tesla typically uses formulations including lithium, nickel, cobalt, and aluminum oxide. To find a steady and affordable supply of these materials—key to keeping the base price of the Model 3 at about $35,000—the company is recruiting staffers to scour the globe.
Bei BloombergTech-Superstar und Multi-Milliardär Elon Musk baut sein Imperium aus: Der Elektroautohersteller Tesla hat die umstrittene Übernahme der Ökostromfirma SolarCity unter Dach und Fach gebracht.
Musk ist wohl der grösste Shareholder, will sich aber der Stimme enthalten. Also so unter Dach und Fach ist der Deal nicht.The deal, which allows SolarCity to solicit competing takeover offers through Sept. 14, will now go to the shareholders of the companies for approval. Musk, who is chairman and the largest investor in both companies, recused himself from considering whether the deal should be approved by the SolarCity board when he announced the initial bid on June 21. Other SolarCity directors with connections to Tesla and Musk also excluded themselves from voting.
Collectively, these 20 [top institutional shareholders] own about 55 percent of Tesla and 34 percent of SolarCity. They're actually more powerful than that, as only "disinterested" shareholders will vote on whether the deal goes ahead. Assuming this means the exclusion of Musk, board member Antonio Gracias, and Lyndon and Peter Rive at SolarCity, the top 20 institutions control 68 percent of the Tesla vote and 48 percent of SolarCity's.
Mercedes-Benz is planning its own distinct line of electric vehicles, challenging BMW and Tesla Motors Inc. in a bet that alternative-fuel cars have the potential to become profitable.
Mercedes will add two electric sport utility vehicles and two sedans, according to two people familiar with the plan,
Mercedes will start selling its electric line-up before the end of the decade, one of the people familiar with the plans said.
The P100D Model S with Ludicrous mode will propel the car to 60 miles per hour in just 2.5 seconds. Tesla's Model X sport utility vehicle will get there in 2.9 seconds. The bigger, 100-kilowatt-hour batteries also provide the first official U.S. Environmental Protection Agency range of more than 300 miles on a charge.
These speeds are crazy fast, matched only by sold-out supercars with tiny production runs: Ferrari’s $1.4 million LaFerrari, Porsche’s $845,000 918 Spyder, and Bugatti’s $2.3 million Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse. Tesla’s new Model S, at $134,500, is just as quick as any vehicle on the road. Even its seven-seat SUV beats the McLaren 675LT.
"What they produce can be produced by Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, Nissan. Anybody in the world can make it eventually, at much lower cost and probably much more efficiently," Faber said Monday on CNBC's "Trading Nation."
irgendwann... messerscharfe Prognosen wie immer"I think Tesla is a company that is likely to go to zero eventually," Faber said.
The 126 buyers of the Tesla Model S sedan’s P85D performance version are seeking unspecified reimbursements after the car failed to meet power and speed specifications ...
Tesla responded that independent tests show the model can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers (60 miles) per hour in 3.1 seconds to 3.3 seconds. Oslo District Court said it has scheduled hearings in the case for mid-December.
Tesla said its own tests and independent checks have “demonstrated that the Model S P85D’s acceleration and motor-power numbers have always been accurate.”
Tesla und andere Elektroautos müssen in den USA bald künstliche Motorengeräusche von sich geben. Aus Sicherheitsgründen.
Elektroautos sind heimtückisch. Weil sich Fussgänger, Velofahrer und Autofahrer im Verkehr zu einem grossen Teil auf ihr Gehör verlassen, kommt es mit den geräuscharmen Strom- und Hybrid-Fahrzeugen häufiger zu Unfällen als mit Benzinern.
Konkret sollen bei Elektroautos ein elektronischer Tongenerator und an der Unterseite der Karosserie ein wasserdichter Lautsprecher eingebaut werden. Wie die Autos schliesslich tönen sollen, ist nicht klar. Gut möglich, dass es je nach Land unterschiedlich sein wird – die entsprechenden Vorschriften werden wohl nicht überall die gleichen sein.
Hier als Dokumentation die Präsentation von Mark SpiegelDer Elektroautobauer, der das Modell 3 für den Preis von 35'000 Dollar – gemeinläufig wird auch vom Volks-Tesla gesprochen – versprochen hat, erleide am Ende jedoch Schiffbruch, glaubt der US-Hedgefondsmanager Mark Spiegel.
Spiegel ist sogar davon überzeugt, dass die Tesla-Aktie bald wertlos sein wird – wegen der hohen Schulden nennt er das preisliche Ziel «null Dollar», wie das US-Wirtschaftsmagazin «Fortune» schreibt.
Treibt dieses Auto Tesla in den Bankrott?
Hier als Dokumentation die Präsentation von Mark Spiegel
TSLA Is a Zero
The company has collected more than 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles operating under diverse road and weather conditions around the world. And in the frantic race to roll out the first fully functional autonomous vehicle, that kind of mass, real-world intelligence can be invaluable.
The 1.3 billion miles of data Tesla said it has collected represents those covered by its vehicles even when Autopilot isn’t switched on—it operates in “shadow mode,” with sensors tracking real-world data when it’s off. In May, a Tesla executive said at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference that the cars had driven 100 million miles with Autopilot actively engaged. In October, Musk said on Twitter that the number of cumulative Autopilot-on miles was 222 million.
Tesla Motors' luxury electric sedan fell short of receiving the highest crash-protection ratings in testing by the insurance industry's safety arm, but two other plug-in cars earned top marks.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Wednesday that the Tesla Model S, a hit in the high-end luxury sedan segment, failed to win the top ratings in its crash tests because it fell short in a few key areas. BMW's i3 electric car came up short as well.
Elon Musk is burning through cash and may need to raise more soon to produce the mass-market electric sedan Tesla Inc. is banking on to reach the mainstream consumer.
A capital raise would provide more cushion to the smallest and youngest publicly held U.S. automaker, which has huge expenditures planned ahead of introducing the Model 3 sedan in July. Tesla burned through cash in the fourth quarter and expects to spend as much as $2.5 billion in the first half of the year before fielding its first mass-market car.
“It’s certainly clear that some kind of capital raise is coming,” David Whiston, an auto analyst at Morningstar Inc., said by phone Thursday. “They might want to do it soon.”