Tesla Delivers A Record 97,000 Vehicles In Q3 - Will That Silence the Critics?

Grow up...

Apparently not. TESLA stock continues to crash because the critics think TESLA will not become a profitable company anytime soon and with the onslaught of new electric cars coming in the market, TESLA's future doesn't look to promising.

LMAO Tesla’s future hasn’t looked promising since its inception but apparently they are still standing and well...running. They just have to figure out how to churn a profit off these record sales.

In terms of the competition, have you seen the E Tron’s sales last month? Pitiful.

Porsche is smart rushing to deliver and close as many of those 30k pre orders as possible before Tesla launches the new model S which should wipe the floor with the Taycan since it only manages to keep up with the current Model S

Lol uh yea go check the acceleration numbers from Porsche it’s like they used the model S as their blueprint, the
Numbers are identical to the model S with the exception of range which is of course significantly less than the model S

Lol uh yea go check the acceleration numbers from Porsche it’s like they used the model S as their blueprint, the
Numbers are identical to the model S with the exception of range which is of course significantly less than the model S

Scroll up did I say that anywhere? Reading is fundamental kids

Oh I thought you’d be laughing at the Taycan being called Turbo with no Turbos LMAO STILL LAUGHING AT THE NAME

Lol well lucky for regular commuters we don’t pass through the Nurburgring on the way to work. All the hype, media, marketing, and advertising events Porsche invested into the Taycan only to keep up with a 7 year old Car on the drag strip LMAO

And the range is laughable LMAO

Lol uh yea go check the acceleration numbers from Porsche it’s like they used the model S as their blueprint, the
Numbers are identical to the model S with the exception of range which is of course significantly less than the model S

Again read it and weep Porsche post official numbers for the Taycan and yup it only keeps up with a Model S on the drag strip

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/porsche-taycan-turbo-and-tesla-model-s-compared-stats-specs-2019-9

Learn to read, it’s quite useful

Lmao, where did you all find this guy, “ drags trips are for rednecks” Tell that to Carwow and every automotive mediia/network that garners the most views/likes/clicks from drag races

This guy is hilarious hahaha

Sanjose this Jones character is asking for you, fair warning he doesn’t like reading much and just vomits from the
Mouth LMAO

Well tell us more about your redneck lifestyle, you sound experienced

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/porsche-taycan-turbo-and-tesla-model-s-compared-stats-specs-2019-9

Learn to read, it’s quite useful And tell us about the redneck life u speak so much about, are the double wide trailers still THE way to go?

Get some new material bud this is embarrassing even for u LMAO

Get some new material bud this is embarrassing even for u LMAO

Jonesmoron claim

“Drag strips are for rednecks and mustangs in Teslas” sorry for the typo...his words LMAO

“drag strips are for rednecks in Mustangs and Teslas” no sorry moron translation I guess he meant driving mustangs and Teslas...IQ quite low on that one

God, that was popcorntastic.

Jonesmoron claims

“drag strips are for rednecks in Mustangs and Teslas” no sorry moron translation I guess he meant driving mustangs and Teslas...IQ quite low on that one

I do wat I can Mdarringer, it’s fun shutting jonesmoron down regularly LOL

LMAO JONESMORON’s Passion For Tesla just made this one of autopsies highest clicked/commented threads! Great work Jonesmoron LMAO

I’m sure autopsies will continue to quench your thirst for Tesla with more articles to come hahaha

Wow... well I'm sure threads like this won't encourage more Tesla articles to be posted lol. Click, double click, triple click... blah blah, yet the petrolheads read on comment on every Tesla article posted here.

Keep going Jonesmoron make this the highest posted thread on spies LMAO, the idiot is a Tesla PR machine

Keep going Jonesmoron make this the highest posted thread on spies LMAO, the idiot is a Tesla PR machine

Keep going Jonesmoron make this the highest posted thread on spies LMAO, the idiot is a Tesla PR machine

Actually, the gross margin on the model is under 19 percent. Gross margin does not guarantee profitably for the company, obviously as tesla keeps losing money as a company. And the forecast is they will lose money again when financial results are announced for the 3rd quarter. Again to remind you, tesla is a structurally unprofitable company.

Now there is no profitability expected until 2021 at the earliest.

Model S and X are dead. Model 3 continues to lose money - the more Tesla sells, the bigger the loss. It's not a viable business.

It's funny how you think sales of 60,000/year is dead. That is double the production numbers of the Taycan for 2020.

Um, I'm not comparing the sale to the 3. S/X alone are over 60,000 a year... again double Porsche's best forecast for 2020.

Throw in Model 3 and you're looking at 450,000 cars a year in 2020 if not more.

FAQMD, that's a fair point although I think they are all around a 25% gross margin right now.

Having come so close to the 100k mark, they will strive for it in the following quarters. Considering the dollars Softbank has thrown at We Work and Uber and the lack of profitability in each, the Tesla business looks much better. The big jump in revenue and profit will come when the Model Y CUV hits showrooms.

You too, grow up.

I don't understand why so many people pull for Tesla to fail. I get that Musk can be annoying. There's lots of that on Twitter to go around. It's the first new car manufacturer in the US in many decades that might make a shot of being successful.

Some of you don't like EVs. Fine, you don't have to. But why bring such negativity? If you don't like reading news about Tesla, then don't click on the post. All you do is drive up the clicks and encourage more coverage. Or are you all holding short positions in Tesla stock?

I don't own a Tesla, and likely never will. I do expect my next car to be an EV, most likely the VW ID.4, or perhaps a Niro EV.

"I don't understand why so many people pull for Tesla to fail. I get that Musk can be annoying. There's lots of that on Twitter to go around. It's the first new car manufacturer in the US in many decades that might make a shot of being successful."

Musk can be annoying? No. He's a charlatan. He's a snake oil salesman. He called a guy who rescued trapped kids a pedophile, then doubled down on it. Most of all, he might just be a criminal. That's why people root against him, not because "he can be annoying". It's amazing to me anyone roots FOR him.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gambled-tesla-to-save-solarcity

And all the down votes just prove my case. None of you want to have an honest discussion. If it's anything remotely construed to be pro-Tesla, you jump on it.

90% of the down votes are from someone that has too much time on their hands creating duplicate accounts.

Have to give Elon credit for thinking big and challenging the status quo with Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company. Sometimes he acts super impulsively and says things he shouldn't and his targets are usually very optimistic.

@SJD said: "...90% of the down votes are from someone that has too much time on their hands creating duplicate accounts..."

You mean like you?

I have one account MD. Are you the one that is using multiple accounts? I always assumed it would be you, but I think FAQMD could be it.

@joneshamilton Fine. I can understand the feelings some feel towards him. But if he were no longer part of Tesla tomorrow, these same haters would still hate Tesla. That's my point. Detest the man, fine. But give the company, and all of its employees, a chance to make it.

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No musk is just the perfect scheming douchey asshole and hence the hatred here amongst many of us gear heads. I personally want to see Tesla succeed and almost bought a Model S myself years ago before getting all learned on the little weasel Musk or PT Barnum as I prefer to refer to him as. I really thing Tesla could flourish if they removed Musk preferably to a federal penitentiary -where he belongs for securities fraud and other shenanigans...

Even without Musk, most here would be anti-Tesla because it is something new and different. People hate change, that's fair. Unfortunately change is coming whether we like it or not.

When was the first time there was an EV with the same range as a gas car... oh yeah, that was a Tesla roadster.

Back to the original article, it won't silence the critics because billions are ($8-10 billion to be precise) are betting on Tesla to fail and those people will do anything possible to make that happen.

I don't think Tesla will turn a profit this quarter, my best guess is they will lose $250-350 million. Sales were up, but the manufactured way more cars so costs will go up as well. Unless they brought the margin way down, I don't think they did enough to turn a profit. I think they'll need to get to 120,000 cars in Q4 to turn a profit in Q4. It might be doable with Gigafactory 3, we'll see.

@SJD said: "Back to the original article..." Why? Because YOU say so? #arrogant

Quarterly or Annually?

In the end, Tesla will become an important part of American automotive history... I just hope it will get bought out by a well funded company so American jobs can be kept.

@Autospies did we hit the comment record yet?

Nope, I'm a stickler for truth and integrity. I may be optimistic and an extreme early adopter, but I don't believe in deceiving people.

The chart says it all: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/08/tesla-model-3-one-of-the-worlds-safest-cars.aspx

It's the Motley Fool, very popular financial site.

Tesla is chasing sales. Their problem is they have no money to properly address quality control or customer service. That will be their undoing once Porsche and Volkswagen start selling their vehicles on the market. People are always complaining about the wait to get their cars looked at by these repair centers. It seems to be a common customer complaint regarding Tesla. Ultimately people will not give a rats ass about zero to 60 times if their cars don't run right, are not built right, and suffer from inadequate customer service.

They have $4 billion in the bank, quality is solid, customer service needs some work.

Doubt it :)