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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by Gumby » Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:52 am

dualstow wrote: I sold a lot of shares at about 340, and then kicked myself when it got that high. There are many ways to fail.  :D
The painful memories. I think it gave me an ulcer from all the stress. Picking the stock of the decade is just as much a curse as it is a treasure. Never again...

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/pe ... h-success/

And it was almost unfathomable to see it at 700 after all it had been through.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:54 pm

Yes, Gumby, you actually wrote about it on page 2 of this thread.
But, it bears repeating.  :) I can see why it's often on your mind.
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Post by Greg » Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:05 pm

I want TSLA to keep rising for you dualstow but I also want it to come crashing down to maybe $35. Then I'd consider buying in again.
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Post by dualstow » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:47 pm

1NV35T0R (Greg) wrote: I want TSLA to keep rising for you dualstow but I also want it to come crashing down to maybe $35. Then I'd consider buying in again.
How about a 3-for-1 split? ;-)
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Post by Greg » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:32 am

dualstow wrote:
1NV35T0R (Greg) wrote: I want TSLA to keep rising for you dualstow but I also want it to come crashing down to maybe $35. Then I'd consider buying in again.
How about a 3-for-1 split? ;-)
... THAT was clever, I'll give you that haha.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by smurff » Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:36 pm

smurff wrote: If "the higher they rise, the faster they fall" has any legitimacy as a saying, I suspect that Tesla May become an example.  Fun while it lasted.
Tesla is down almost 14% ($17.51, the last time I checked) today.  Apparently the Goldman Saxons think it will be priced around $84. 

This is a bit past the point when I would have launched the "sell" button, since I would have tightened my stop to 15% a few dollars ago (to $113.27), back when the price was over $133.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:47 pm

smurff wrote: Apparently the Goldman Saxons think
;-) I like it!
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Post by Ad Orientem » Tue Aug 20, 2013 7:28 pm

Tesla says Model S gets best NHTSA safety rating ever...
While other manufacturers have been struggling to gain traction in a slow-growing battery car market, California start-up Tesla Motors has been exceeding even its own optimistic expectations with the big Model S sedan.

Offering a nearly 300-mile range with its optional 85 kilowatt-hour battery, three times more than most electric models, is one factor that appears to be boosting sales. But now, Tesla hopes there’ll be another reason for buyers to plug into the Model S: the maker is crowing that it has just received the best federal crash test results of any vehicle ever.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Tesla Model S received an overall five-star rating, as well as five stars in every individual test category. That’s something that only 1 percent of the vehicles NHTSA has tested have so far received. But the battery sedan also set a new record for the lowest likelihood for passenger injury ever achieved in the government tests.
Read the rest here...
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Post by dualstow » Tue Aug 20, 2013 7:42 pm

Excellent news!

This car is so great that I have stopped pushing the idea on my parents. I am now afraid that they'd get carjacked. ;-) <--- only half joking.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:28 pm

I'm not sure, but I think at this point Greg probably wants to strangle some of us.

ADDED: But more importantly, they're forecasting a mostly autonomous car in just three years.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robo ... ree-years/
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by Pointedstick » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:45 am

Am I the only one wary of stuffing more and more high-tech crap into cars? The cynic in me thinks it's the only way they can sustain a moderate level of price inflation and keep their profit margins up. If they built a car today with the technology of a car from 1985 it would probably cost $3,000.

Yes, I know a lot of this is regulatory and that the NHTSA wouldn't let you build a car nowadays without automatic front back middle side up down force-predictive intelligently triggered nitrogen-filled carbon-neutral foam-cushioned airbags and all that jazz.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by Mdraf » Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:19 pm

Did you also know that when the price of cars goes up from year to year the CPI does not count that as an increase? They say the added electronics and other gadgets add to the car value so the price is not counted as an increase in the CPI calculation.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:21 pm

After a decade of self-driving cars, maybe we can go ahead and take out the airbags and seat belts, and just leave the heatairconditioningstereosystemmovingseats. And, you know, other new features to occupy us since we're not driving it.
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Post by dualstow » Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:08 pm

Neat! Thanks for the heads up.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Wed Oct 02, 2013 4:55 pm

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Post by Reub » Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:31 pm

"Another Tesla Model S Caught Fire After A Crash In Mexico"

http://jalopnik.com/another-tesla-model ... 1453376349

If this continues Tesla could go the way of the Edsel.
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Post by smurff » Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:26 pm

MangoMan wrote: Amazon is offering
Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century Kindle Edition
free for a limited time. Not sure when it ends.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CATSONE/
Thanks, Pugchief.  I just got my free copy today, more than a month after you posted the details. ;D
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Post by smurff » Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:40 pm

Reub wrote: "Another Tesla Model S Caught Fire After A Crash In Mexico"

http://jalopnik.com/another-tesla-model ... 1453376349

If this continues Tesla could go the way of the Edsel.
But then again,
“We were able to contact the driver quickly and are pleased that he is safe. This was a significant accident where the car was traveling at such a high speed that it smashed through a concrete wall and then hit a large tree, yet the driver walked away from the car with no permanent injury. He is appreciative of the safety and performance of the car and has asked if we can expedite delivery of his next Model S.”?
If a car's design let me walk away after smashing through a concrete wall and a tree, I too would want another one.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by Reub » Thu Nov 07, 2013 3:22 pm

Third known Tesla fire:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStor ... d-20815482

Stock was down over 7% today and 23% in a month. I would sell and buy GM.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by Jan Van » Fri Nov 08, 2013 11:32 am

I wonder how this compares to other makes/models.

In 2011 there were 187,500 highway vehicle fires.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:13 am

Up 12% in premarket trading this morning. Wow!
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:32 pm

It could always come crumbling down, but my $860 investment in Tesla shares is worth nearly 3800 today. Wow!
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by Jan Van » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:42 pm

Dualstow, it's called "trailing stop order" :-)
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by dualstow » Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:52 pm

jan van mourik wrote: Dualstow, it's called "trailing stop order" :-)
Probably wise  ;) Because there are wild swings (much like my wife's emotions), I am letting it ride.
If I had invested 8K instead of eight hundred, I'd probably have a limit sell order in place.
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Re: Tesla Motors

Post by Jan Van » Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:24 pm

I'm only saying that because I made that mistake with Netflix. I sold a bunch at $180 to take a profit. Smart move eh!
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