I'm real excited for Tesla. I can't quite wrap my head around how they could come in and build a better electric car in less than 10 years than any of the established players could. I don't think their stock price is justifiable at this point. But, what they've been able to do over the past 9 years is nothing short of amazing.

However, for them to really go mainstream IMO, they need a $20k car like a Civic. I also think 300 miles on a charge should be the minimum (at least for North America & Australia. They can get away with less in Europe and East Asia.)

ETA: I really think they need to drop their self rolled Nav/Entertainment/HVAC dash console and implement a QNX system. Pretty sure their current system is linux based, but it has too many bugs. I hear that you have to literally reboot it every couple months.

This post was edited on 8/24/16 at 7:55 pm

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Posted by dabigfella

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Posted on 8/24/16 at 8:18 pm to colorchangintiger

Im excited for tesla too, but will they survive to get there? This recent bond buying by musk and his cousins of solar city bonds just absolutely reeks of disaster. It seems like nobody wanted to buy those bonds so they stepped in and bought them. The product is incredible especially the new p100d with 0-60 of 2.5 which is unreal and the fastest car on earth. I just worry they wont get there bc of financial constraints but I dont know im not a stock analyst but I just see almost $20B in combined debt between solarcity and tesla and now these solar bonds are basically junk status at 6.5% and then musk and family had to buy up nearly all of them bc nobody wanted them.

Ive never really seen anything like this company before so I dont know what to make of it at this point

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