by Randall McAdory | Dec 29, 2020 | Amazon, Apple, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, GM Cruise Automation, Microsoft, Rivian, TaaS, Tesla, Volkswagen, Waymo
Why is it that the Tesla fan believes all legacy automakers are doomed to fail in the race toward an electric and autonomous vehicle future? To the Fan Boys, a winner-take-all, zero-sum-game of Tesla winning while all others lose is the future. TI don not believe...
by Randall McAdory | Nov 1, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
Some of the people I follow on Twitter are Tesla investors. A common trait among these Twitter Tesla investors is supreme confidence in the company and Elon Musk, along with an inherent belief that any other electric vehicle entrant or company developing autonomous...
by Randall McAdory | Sep 24, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
It’s a big deal, irrespective of the short-term impact on the stock price I’m a long Tesla shareholder who does not get too worked-up around the short-term gyrations of what is a very volatile stock. Battery Day didn’t seem to excite investors, with the Tesla...
by Randall McAdory | Jul 10, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
Elon Musk once described Tesla’s lead over the competition in developing self-driving cars during an interview using the tennis analogy of “game, set, match.” My interpretation was that Musk believes Tesla’s development was so far ahead of...
by Randall McAdory | Apr 28, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Ford, GM Cruise Automation, TaaS, Tesla
I believe Tesla is leading the world in a race to develop the technology enabling mobility solutions using self-driving vehicle capability as outlined in this Medium article, Tesla’s Insurmountable Advantages. However, in an interview this week with Automotive...
by Randall McAdory | Feb 29, 2020 | Autopilot, Elon Musk, Tesla
Inside EVs is reporting that Tesla might be moving to a “next level” in vehicle battery development. The company already has gotten the price per kilowatt-hour of their batteries down to $158 today from $258 four years ago. There’s speculation that...