Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

[8_1_Van]

Everything We Know About Tesla's Semi Truck

I wonder what the range is ?

[NJRVer]

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

NJRVer wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

NJRVer wrote:
Saw an "S" up close a few weeks ago and an "X" up close today.

All I can say is that other manufacturers could learn a thing or two on fitting body panels from Tesla.
Flawless.

Ha, ha, ha, you're kidding right?

Flawless I tell you; flawless....LOL

Flawless Tesla doors!

Quality #1.


You fan bois crack me up!

Body panels had excellent lines. All flat with each other. Gaps even all the way around.
Better than any of the dozen vehicles I have owned so far since 1975.

You need to stop buying 90's Kia's.

40% of Tesla parts are junk.

LOL you fan boi's crack me up! My 5.7 diesel runs great! LMAO

GM, Toyota, Mopar.

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

Tesla may be halting semi truck program.

Tesla getting it's pants sued off.


Tesla getting sued by it's workers

Tesla customers suing Tesla.

Everybody suing Tesla.

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock...…………….:B

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

NJRVer wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

NJRVer wrote:
Saw an "S" up close a few weeks ago and an "X" up close today.

All I can say is that other manufacturers could learn a thing or two on fitting body panels from Tesla.
Flawless.

Ha, ha, ha, you're kidding right?

Flawless I tell you; flawless....LOL

Flawless Tesla doors!

Quality #1.


You fan bois crack me up!

Body panels had excellent lines. All flat with each other. Gaps even all the way around.
Better than any of the dozen vehicles I have owned so far since 1975.

You need to stop buying 90's Kia's.

40% of Tesla parts are junk.

LOL you fan boi's crack me up! My 5.7 diesel runs great! LMAO

[NJRVer]

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

NJRVer wrote:
Saw an "S" up close a few weeks ago and an "X" up close today.

All I can say is that other manufacturers could learn a thing or two on fitting body panels from Tesla.
Flawless.

Ha, ha, ha, you're kidding right?

Flawless I tell you; flawless....LOL

Flawless Tesla doors!

Quality #1.


You fan bois crack me up!

Body panels had excellent lines. All flat with each other. Gaps even all the way around.
Better than any of the dozen vehicles I have owned so far since 1975.

[BenK]

Depends which source is quoted...

".....The cuts are almost entirely made from salaried employees...."...note '

almost entirely

'...

http://fortune.com/2018/06/12/tesla-layoffs-workers/

But...bottom line...Musk is facing a huge management issue that is mainly of his making

Like finally announcing flattening his organization...hello Musk...that is MBA 101 management metric that most MBA's forget about...

Or his comment of the cloud based upgrade to Model 3 braking to become the best in class...well...why didn't you do that in the first place?...or did the internal certification process miss that one???

Another thing that is about to pop up...anyone drive by their Fremont factory? I do often to meet with clients and cruise a bit over to their HUGE lots all over the place around the main factory...

There are pallets and pallets of parts just sitting out on the lots, parking areas and even out in the dirt. Been there a loooong time and am informed that they are going to go to jobbers to bring them up to spec...what???...am told that they were not made to spec...but were allowed to enter their stock/parts system...now they are in a urination contest between the vendor and Tesla...Tesla won't pay and now the vendors are refusing to ship anymore parts...

Got it from workers inside the fence and folks know still working in there...but for those Fan Boys who have to eyeball it from an Internet source...here is one

Tesla ships flawed parts from suppliers to a local machine shop for fixes, and they're piled up outs...



Tesla Parts Spotted Piled Outside San Jose Machine Shop



If me...I'd not accept a 'new' vehicle with these reworked parts...

[time2roll]

Did you read the article?


"trimming mostly salaried positions."
"Tesla noted that there had been some duplication of roles and job functions as it scaled quickly."
"Tesla said no production associates were impacted by the restructuring."

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

Tesla to cut over 4,000 jobs.

Now how in the hell are you going to build a bunch more cars if you lay off 9% of your company? Fan bois, how does that work?

The fat lady is getting on stage and is spraying one of those spritzer things in her mouth! In a month or two she will be saying: Me,me,me,me,meeeeeeeeeeeeeee into the mike...………...

[ShinerBock]

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

NJRVer wrote:
Saw an "S" up close a few weeks ago and an "X" up close today.

All I can say is that other manufacturers could learn a thing or two on fitting body panels from Tesla.
Flawless.

Ha, ha, ha, you're kidding right?

Flawless I tell you; flawless....LOL

Flawless Tesla doors!

Quality #1.


You fan bois crack me up!

[BenK]

Musk has tied EVERYTHING (except for SpaceX) together and bond debt is coming due...


Just a couple links...there are too many more...

Bloomberg, Tesla Has a Problem, and It’s Not the Model 3

Small Tesla Contractor Sues Car Maker, Claiming Nonpayment


SolarCity is in the next city over from me...stop by the car wash across the street and used to walk over to talk shop with them...no more, as they don't have many employees at their HQ...gone are the sales folks in *ALL* of the hardware stores I shop at...Lowes, HomeDepot and even the large mom'n pops. Their parking lot used to be buzzing with their trucks coming and going...now all parked and no activity...


Their cloud based system software update is seen as a fantastic method...well that is just a huge open door for the baddies out there. Hope folks understand that the keyless fob crypto passwords are now more easily stolen by the baddies... Why have disconnected the wireless garage system and gone back to a hard key system and turn off the whole system when at home


Huge debt maturity chart...a big one is SolarCity
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-03/tesla-bond-stock-extend-losses-has-musk-stopped-paying-bil...

Click For Full-Size Image.

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

NJRVer wrote:
Saw an "S" up close a few weeks ago and an "X" up close today.

All I can say is that other manufacturers could learn a thing or two on fitting body panels from Tesla.
Flawless.

Ha, ha, ha, you're kidding right?

Flawless I tell you; flawless....LOL

Flawless Tesla doors!

Quality #1.


You fan bois crack me up!

[fj12ryder]

Well, if you assemble them by hand and only do a limited number per month and you can get things to fit well. Just ask Ferrari and Lamborghini.

[NJRVer]

Saw an "S" up close a few weeks ago and an "X" up close today.

All I can say is that other manufacturers could learn a thing or two on fitting body panels from Tesla.
Flawless.

[time2roll]

I do not believe Elon stiffed anyone as the quote implied that Trump did.
Although I think both have more to the story than is presented here.

[IndyCamp]

time2roll wrote:
Ending an open contract and refusing to pay for work performed are two very different issues.

OK, sure.

So, not paying a contractor for FINISHED work is unacceptable, right?

During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.

The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resort’s builder.

Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. “That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.

The reason: the money never came.

Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them.

[time2roll]

Ending an open contract and refusing to pay for work performed are two very different issues.