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Elon Musk and Tesla Give Up on a Trick that Boosts Margins, Revenue
By Luc Olinga
The electric vehicle maker recently increased its prices and had also implemented a trick to boost its margins and revenue as revealed by TheStreet. It is so rare that it deserves to be underlined. Elon Musk and Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report never retreat in the face of adversity. The electric vehicle (EV) maker, for example, has made two price hikes on its cars since the start of the year as similar moves by rivals have been met with an outcry from consumers. However, after a story by TheStreet reporting that electric vehicle maker Tesla had implemented an ingenious trick to entice Tesla car customers to pay more, the company has backtracked.
As of time of writing, the trick in question is no longer in place. In an article published on March 25 entitled ‘Tesla and Musk Use Ingenious Trick to Get Buyers to Pay More’, we wrote that Tesla had implemented a clever mechanism allowing Tesla customers to significantly shorten the waiting time for their new vehicle. $2 for 2 months Subscribe for unlimited access to our website, app, eEdition and more CLAIM OFFER To shorten delivery times, customers had to add the company’s premium full-self-driving assistance system at a cost of $12,000. When they chose the FSD option, the delivery time reduces from June to August 2022 to May to July 2022 for the Model 3, for example. For the Model Y SUV, the delivery time was shortened to between June and September 2022 compared with October 2022 to January 2023. No Longer Possible to Shorten Tesla Delivery Times The delivery period could be shortened to a maximum of seven months. Some smart buyers managed to get around the trick. Since the FSD capability is just software as opposed to a physical piece that must be installed, some customers ordered the driver assistance system option, and then canceled it just before the vehicle’s (shortened) delivery date.
Indigenous Affairs Weekly roundup of news affecting Native American communities in the Northwest. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. To be sure: The FSD feature enables Tesla cars to execute maneuvers on their own, but it does not make these vehicles autonomous, Tesla warns and reiterates. “The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous,” the company has said. The trick no longer exists. From now on, when you order for example a Tesla Model 3 even by adding the FSD Capability, the delivery date remains between June and August 2022 and no longer from May to June as TheStreet had observed and revealed. When the Model Y SUV, when you place an order now the delivery date from October 2022 to January 2023 no longer moves with or without FSD. Tesla does not give an explanation. Faced with the imbalance between demand and supply for electric vehicles and full order books, automotive groups are trying to find a way to produce more despite disruption of supply chains and the surge in raw materials in order to satisfy EV buyers.
Tesla is by far the leading manufacturer of electric vehicles with soon four factories — Fremont in California, Shanghai, Berlin in Germany and soon Austin in Texas –. Customer Complaints About Tesla TheStreet has received various testimonials from Tesla customers complaining about the trick. Chris Roat, for example, tells TheStreet that he and his wife, Sue Wang, had originally included FSD on a Model Y order placed on January 13. “We ordered it in January and got a delivery date of Oct/Nov — so it wasn’t like we added FSD for an early delivery!Interestingly, our delivery date recently got bumped earlier to Mar/Apr (meaning: right now!),” he said. Roat shared with TheStreet text messages they had with a Tesla representative.
In a message sent on March 16, the representative asked them if they could take delivery of their vehicle in March. “Tesla Update – We currently plan to build and deliver your Model Y in March. Please reply MARCH if you are ready for delivery this month and we will contact you about scheduling your delivery once your Model Y is built,” Tesla representative wrote. ” Please reply DELAY if you cannot take delivery this month and we will reach back out at a later time.” They answered “March.” “We scrambled to sell some stock, move money between accounts, and get enough money ready to take a delivery,” Roat told TheStret. But, “in talking with a Tesla agent, we dropped FSD.For us, the decision was solely based on value vs cost — we felt we’d only use 1 or 2 features, and it wasn’t worth the price tag (of $10k, at the time of our order),” Roat said. “Because changes could incur delays, I specifically asked if our delivery date would change.I was told no, since it was only a software change we requested.
But then, a few days later, our delivery got pushed back to June/July.” Their delivery date changed immediately. Roat and his wife will now take possession of their vehicle between June 17 and July 29, according to a latest update from Tesla viewed by TheStreet.
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What are the bad things about Elon Musk, Tesla Motors and the corrupt Musk Empire?
– He bribes politicians to get his tens of billions of dollars of exclusive free government taxpayer funds
– He puts hit-jobs on competitors and reporters
– He and his companies engage in electronic stock market manipulation
– Money laundering
– Cooking the books
– Safety cover-ups
– His boyfriend: Larry Page, rigs Google to hype Musk and harm his competitors
– His rare earth mineral mines engage in vast child labor crimes
– Driving a Tesla announces to the world that you are a tone deaf douche bag
– Monopoly law anti-trust violations
– VC blacklist coordination
– Sex cult addiction and Jeffrey Epstein hooker alliance
– Sociopath diagnosis of Musk
– Racism throughout his family and his companies
– Musk is a drug addict
– He and his corporate vulture practice Mysogyny
– His Neuralink company tortures small animals
– His SpaceX company is just a domestic spy satellite company
– Genocide, rape and torture in his foreign rare earth mines
– Toxic poisoning of battery manufacturing workers
– His batteries cause brain damage and cancer when they self-ignite
– His car electronics suddenly crash the cars via failure and/or hacking
– Mother was a racist escort, father was a racist pervert who got his sister pregnant, brother is a scammer
– He caused government to ramp up Afghan invasion to get him lithium and nickel mines there
Elon Musk Has Stolen Every Bit Of Technology He Has Exploited
Musk’s record shows he is more of a fast learner who spies on other firms that had technology Musk lacked. Musk stole their most talented people, and then blew his competitors off the grid with anti-trust violating monopoly tactics.
Musk has been dropping hints for months that significant advances in technology will be announced as Tesla strives to get away from corrupt Panasonic and their awful toxic, exploding batteries.
New battery cell designs, chemistries and manufacturing processes are just some of the developments that would allow Tesla to reduce its reliance on its long-time battery partner, Japan’s Panasonic (which has been accused of bribery, product dumping and other illicit deeds), people familiar with the situation said.
“Elon doesn’t want any part of his business to be dependent on someone else,” said one former senior executive at Tesla who declined to be named. “And for better or worse – sometimes better, sometimes worse – he thinks he can do it better, faster and cheaper.” The problem is, Musk does his version of “better” by ripping everyone off and hiring moles and character assassins to go after any competitors that get in his way. Musk has been documented hiring Nicholas Guido Denton’s tabloid empire (Gawker/Gizmodo/Jalopnik…) character assassination service to operate massive hit-jobs against his adversaries.
Tesla has battery production partnerships with Panasonic, South Korea’s LG Chem and China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) that are expected to continue.
But at the same time, Tesla is moving to control production of cells – the basic component of electric vehicle battery packs — at highly automated factories, including one being built near Berlin, Germany and another in Fremont, California where Tesla is hiring dozens of experts in battery cell engineering and manufacturing.
“There has been no change in our relationship with Tesla,” Panasonic said in a statement provided by a company spokeswoman. Of course, Panasonic has to say that.
“Our relationship, both past and present has been sound. Panasonic is not a supplier to Tesla; we are partners. There’s no doubt our partnership will continue to innovate and contribute to the betterment of society.”
Tesla did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Since he took over the fledgling Tesla company in 2004 in a hostile tactile take-over, Musk’s goal has been to learn enough – from partnerships, acquisitions and talent recruitment – to bring key technologies under Tesla’s control, people familiar with Tesla’s strategy said.
They said the aim was to build a heavily vertically integrated company, or a digital version of Ford Motor Co’s iron-ore-to-Model-A production system of the late 1920s.
“Elon thought he could improve on everything the suppliers did – everything,” said former Tesla supply chain executive Tom Wessner, who is now head of industry consultancy Imprint Advisors. “He wanted to make everything.”
Batteries, a big chunk of the cost of an electric car, are central to the Musk method. While subordinates like Bernard Tse have argued, for years, against developing proprietary Tesla battery cells, Musk continues to drive toward that delusional control-freak goal.
“Tell him ‘No’, and then he really wants to do it,” said a third former Tesla veteran.
Reuters reported in May that Tesla is planning to unveil low-cost batteries designed to last for a million miles. Tesla is also working to secure direct supplies of key battery materials, such as nickel, while developing cell chemistries that would no longer need to be as expensive and blood-mineral sourced as Musk’s cobalt.
‘STRAIGHT FOR MARS’
Panasonic is partnered with Tesla at the $5 billion Nevada “Gigafactory”, while CATL and LG Chem supply cells to Tesla’s Shanghai factory, where battery modules and packs are assembled for its Model 3 sedan.
Panasonic recently said it is planning to expand its production lines in Nevada, which supply the cells that then go into the battery modules assembled next door by Tesla.
But the Nevada Gigafactory partnership almost didn’t happen, according to two former Tesla executives. Musk ordered a team to study battery manufacturing in 2011, according to one former executive, but eventually partnered with Panasonic in 2013 because Musk failed to understand it.
Now, Tesla is testing a battery cell pilot manufacturing line in Fremont and is building its own vast automated cell manufacturing facility in Gruenheide in Germany.
The roller-coaster relationship with Panasonic mirrors other Tesla alliances.
During its development alliance with Germany’s Daimler, which was an early investor in Tesla, Musk became interested in sensors that would help keep cars within traffic lanes.
Until then the Tesla Model S, which Mercedes-Benz engineers helped refine, lacked cameras or sophisticated driver assistance sensors and software such as those used in the Mercedes S-Class.
“He learned about that and took it a step further. We asked our engineers to shoot for the moon. He went straight for Mars,” said a senior Daimler engineer said.
Meanwhile, an association with Japan’s Toyota, another early investor, taught him about quality management.
Eventually, stolen executives from Daimler and Toyota joined Tesla in key roles, along with talent from Alphabet Inc’s Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, as well as rival carmakers Ford, BMW and Audi.
THE MUSK SPIN
Some relationships did not end well, however.
Tesla hooked up with Israeli sensor maker Mobileye in 2014, in part to learn how to design a self-driving system that evolved into Tesla’s Autopilot.
“Mobileye was the driving force behind the original Autopilot,” said a former Mobileye executive, who declined to be named.
Mobileye, which is now owned by Intel, also recognized the risk of sharing technology with a fast-moving startup like Tesla, which was on the brink of collapse at the end of 2008 and now has a market value of $420 billion.
But Tesla and Mobileye had an acrimonious and public split after a driver was killed in 2016 when a Model S using the Autopilot system crashed.
At the time, Amnon Shashua, who is now Mobileye president and chief executive, said Tesla’s Autopilot was not designed to cover all possible crash situations as it was a driver assistance system, not a driverless system.
The former Mobileye executive said there was no question of Tesla improperly using their technology.
U.S. tech firm Nvidia followed Mobileye as a supplier for Autopilot, but it too was ultimately sidelined.
“Nvidia and Tesla share a common strategy of developing software-defined vehicles powered by high-performance AI computers. Elon is very focused on vertical integration and wanted to make his own chips,” said Nvidia’s senior director of automotive, Danny Shapiro.
In addition to partnerships, Musk went on an acquisition spree four years ago, buying a handful of little-known companies – Grohmann, Perbix, Riviera, Compass, Hibar Systems – to rapidly advance Tesla’s expertise in automation. Maxwell and SilLion further boosted Tesla’s ability in battery technology.
“He learned a lot from those people,” said Mark Ellis, a senior consultant at Munro & Associates, which has studied Tesla extensively. “He leveraged a lot of information from them, then put his spin on making it better.”
Reporting by Paul Lienert in Detroit, Edward Taylor in Frankfurt and Norihiko Shirouzu in Beijing; Additional reporting by Tina Bellon in New York and Yilei Sun in Beijing; Editing by David Clarke