@DrStrangeLove would probably be the best one to answer this, but I haven’t seen him post in a month or so. I’ll do my best.
I’d WAG it was somewhere around $50K. Well, that would be before the whole Twitter acquisition happened. Tesla’s large back order list basically vanished (mostly cancelled) in the last two months of 2022, so they started discounting in early 2023. That would have dropped the average price. But they wouldn’t have had to discount without Musk’s shenanigans, so lost sales between $50 and 63 billion, plus more loss because the sales they did make were discounted.
I’m not smarter than you, but I would venture a guess that $50K as the average price of a new Tesla vehicle in 2022 would be a conservative estimate. A million missed sales at that price point is $50bn.
Too many fanboys in the Musk-cult keep the price high. He’s been promising FSD will be perfected every year for about 8 years now and it hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen this year or next year either. You’d think those guys would learn, but it’s a cult. Reality doesn’t intrude into their thinking.
I understand your skepticism, but all Tesla has to do is grow its annual income from $7B to about $150B this year, and their P/E ratio will be in line with other auto manufacturers. What a goal!
Perfectly reasonable schaudenfreude: ALL THE MAJOR ELECTION RESULTS!! John Plaff, quoted by Heather Cox-Richardson (paraphrased): “Every race. Governors, mayors, justices, school boards, water boards, janitors, Uber drivers…every one.” Also Prop 50 passed which hopefully means Mike Johnson won’t have a job much longer.
I’m not worried about the gerrymandering. I expect at least half of those in red states to be dummymanders. Especially Texas, which would be extra Schadenfreudey.
Except, Prop 50 was specifically a response to the kerfuffle in Texas earlier this year, which involved D Legislators leaving the state to deny a quorum on the regerrymandering vote and the governor threatening them with, basically, violence.
Well, I don’t think California’s gerrymandering will backfire. It’s going to be a blue wave everywhere, not a blue wave in red states and red wave in blue ones.
But at the time the legislators left Texas, I thought it was the wrong move. Ya know, interrupting an opponent when they were making a mistake. But on thinking it over, it was a good move from a visuals standpoint. Got the base excited that someone was doing something to oppose the Rs. The fact that it ultimately failed was actually good.
