"Bernie will vote to save the American Auto industry."
"Tesla would make around five hundred thousand cars in 2019."
"The Next-Gen car is the most revolutionary vehicle in the history of the sport."
"We really wanted to get back to a promise that we had made to the fans, which is to put the 'stock' back in stock car."
"Tesla was really the first company in about a century in the US to reach volume production and be sustainably profitable."
"This incredible development is clearly seen in Mexico's Automotive sector. Four years ago, Chinese-powered vehicles weren't represented in Mexico's market share at all."
"I started Paul with $500 in my pocket. The tip margin is over 50%. Actually, wow, yeah. On average, we do about 30 cars a week."
"Bottom lining the Clarity is pretty darn easy; it is quite simply one of the best plug-in hybrids in America."
"Honda has priced the Clarity very aggressively for 2018."
"Car companies employ nearly 14 million people. Digitalization will enhance the industry's efficiency, productivity, and speed."
"For an automobile company to have negative contribution margins is disastrous."
"Rivian started selling these vehicles in 2021 knowing that they would lose money."
"What they showed us was very representative of the car they were testing, and that's something I kind of want to give them credit for because it hasn't been done historically."
"Fiat's digital service will offer consumers the chance to configure vehicles in their virtual showroom and purchase them on the spot."
"Toyota has, by all appearances, killed off the entry-level Prius C in the United States."
"Do you think Tesla forced other car makers to innovate faster?"
"Once upon a time, the large luxury sedan segment was full of large V8 engines and V12 engines as well, but that's not the case these days."
"No man can outrun his past because all it does is make you tired when it catches up with you."
"Affordable cars no longer exist in our market, and the middle class has been sliced and diced by inflation for the past 2 to 3 years."
"More than 80% of Americans can't afford to buy a new car right now."
"Foreign competition has, in fact, made the American automobile industry stronger and it has made American cars better."
"Everything they [Mercedes] are creating and making, while they're all pretty wonderful cars."
"Tesla is not a big fan of doing things you know like from the past. They pave the new trail."
"The gigantic size of China, the world's largest automotive market, allows Chinese brands to scale up production and reduce costs quickly."
"Hydrogen infrastructure is almost zero, so in this sense, it makes logical reasons for Toyota to say ah well we'll kind of give up on hydrogen fuel cells."
"Both car brands stand by their products, so they both offer up a five-year 60,000-mile warranty for engine and transmission."
"Now with all of that said, Toyota is still an ultra-reliable brand."
"Merck actually gave us a fairly odd launch car-wise. They showed us what appears to be more or less the real thing on a live stream event, but then they released renders of what is completely a different car."
"It's just a very different ball game with electric vehicles than internal combustion engines."
"Building conventional, hybrid, and electric luxury class cars on a single production line is unique in the automotive sector."
"This is the only time in history ever that an automotive, a depreciating asset, is actually gaining in value."
"This was a decade ago, and it wasn't just that this was the most compelling vehicle, it was obvious to anyone who paid attention to the data, the battery costs were declining predictably over time."
"The Feds basically wanted to get GM down to Cadillac and Chevrolet. They said, 'You don't need all these brands. You need one prestige brand and one mass-market brand.'"
"The long and short of it is that Chrysler was only going to have one shot to get this right."
"No one wants Chrysler to survive more than they do, so I'd say to the Obama administration, don't leave them out. Put their passion and ideas to work."
"Pontiac was instrumental in that development because it represented a quintessentially American approach to mass-market appeal."
"It won Automobile Magazine's 2012 car of the year award, it garnered well over $600 million dollars in start-up capital and it was heralded as the car that would bury Tesla, but then it died. Both with a bang and a whimper. It's the most over-hyped car in the world."
"At the end of the day, when you look at everything in aggregate, the $25,000 vehicle seems to be well within their reach."
"Imagine you've seen a company who you previously wrote off as just some idiots from Silicon Valley... and they've just unveiled plans to reduce their cost to manufacture a compelling vehicle by $10,000 to $12,000."
"A car should make people's eyes light up when they step into the showroom."
"The energy business collectively is bigger than the automotive business."
"Ford had to know when to let go, and if there's any silver lining in this for Ford, it's that they managed to recognize that point sooner than most."
"Ford is in big trouble; they just stopped the shipment of what was supposed to be their high demand trucks."
"Why would you buy a Mach-E when you can get the better technology for a cheaper price in the Tesla?"
"It's now the second-largest automotive company in the world by market cap, worth $130 billion dollars, just behind Toyota."
"The only car company in the world that is truly vertically integrated is BYD... and I think that gives them a massive cost advantage over everyone else."
"The vast majority of legacy automotive manufacturers will not survive the decade."
"Warren Buffett invested in BYD, the automotive manufacturer of China, the biggest one, back in 2008 and Warren Buffett has made 30x on his investment."
"By 2020, virtually every major manufacturer has some form of all-electric vehicle offering in their product line."
"In January 2021, General Motors made a stunning announcement. It aspires to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035."
"From battery maker to the biggest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer in China, BYD is inching closer to unseating Tesla as the largest EV maker in the world."
"Globalization of production means that the German automaker BMW is producing BMW X5 in Mexico to sell it for the American market."
"Tesla's ambition to release a $25,000 car is not an economy brand move; it's an aspirational luxury brand that doesn't compromise on quality."
"Data is practically gold in the insurance world, and Tesla has the most data about its vehicles."
"Basing their ratings off new, more strict standards this year, making it more difficult to earn a high safety score, but that didn't stop the 2024 Model Y from earning a near-perfect score."
"With the new batteries, Panasonic aims to supply Tesla's new Cybertruck and other vehicles."
"There is some probability that Tesla will make a car smaller than a Model 3 in the future."
"Volkswagen Group will launch an all-electric pickup and rugged SUV in the United States."
"It was an effort that shouted into the wind, a momentous noise that said Toyota and Japan as a whole are capable of creating moving art."
"Tesla makes awesome vehicles, but they still come at a premium, no matter how you swing it."
"The Aston Martin resurgence is real and it is very much something to be excited about."
"If BYD comes in with a very affordable product, then it's probably going to be that either a consumer is going to buy BYD or they're going to buy Tesla."
"What Harley did for the automobile industry, or Detroit, is that he turned it into automotive Hollywood."
"Harley Earl was ahead of his time and he brought cars ahead of theirs."
"Harley Earl designed the future, shaping a path he would live to see paved but never tread."
"In order to advance the take up of electric cars, you need to make them aspirational."
"Lucid definitely pursuing more of that luxury that would be taking away sales from Mercedes, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Maserati."
"Hopefully, they can deliver and scale up what looks to be a relatively competitive product here that should take away some sales from internal combustion engine vehicles."
"Tesla is overvalued because, oh, they're even with that insane growth, they're only going to be the 7th largest automaker."
"Tesla was banned from using the term autopilot in Germany...for false advertising."
"Hyundai has worked hard the past few decades to improve its reputation for reliability and style."
"It showed that when given a well-designed car, the much-maligned British Leyland workers could assemble them as well as any in the world."
"As the 80’s gave way to the 90’s, Rover’s future was looking bright."
"This is going to show what Hyundai is going to be doing in the next couple of years for the rest of their products."
"The Tesla Semi made the Nikola One look like a joke."
"This year, China will build a million electric vehicles; that's half of the electric vehicles in the world."
"It took a few years for GMC to fix the mistakes, but the heavily-refreshed Sierra 1500 is finally competitive against its rivals."
"The bigger news from Acura this year is the rebirth of the Integra."
"The car industry plans to automate the driving experience feature by feature, what some are calling Revolution by Evolution."
"Detroit, Japan, Germany, but here's a surprise, a newcomer with no experience at building cars, has entered the race: Silicon Valley."
"This is perhaps the most highly anticipated and important car that Rolls-Royce has ever created for over a hundred years."
"In a world of German and Japanese giants, life without an underdog is boring."
"Make no mistake, the days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered."
"This is the kind of stuff that, with Tesla having a vertically integrated model, you just don't have to worry about."
"There has literally never been more tension, legal cases, and infighting between dealers and the automotive brand Volkswagen, GM, Ford, etc., than ever before. At the moment, things are headed severely downhill."
"We think this is something that's in the best interest of everybody because if data is available and people can develop innovative solutions and innovative services for car owners, they're going to want those cars."
"Fisker announced... its lifecycle analysis of the Ocean Sport EU revealed that it has the lowest carbon footprint of any vehicle in the segment."
"Stay tuned as we explore how Tesla's groundbreaking approach to casting, backup tooling, and production numbers is setting them apart."
"Tesla could potentially be churning out well over a quarter of a million of these vehicles each year once they hit full-scale production."
"10 years ago we had made less than 3,000 cars. Now here we stand, 10 years later, having made 3 million cars."
"Our auto gross margins reached 30.5 percent on a gap basis, and just under 29 excluding regulatory credits, which is our strongest yet."
"What this means for the future of EVs... ICE cars are dead." - Matt Farrell
"This is I think an incredible achievement by the Tesla team and just a huge thank you to our customers for their support."
"Electric cars have seen an incredible boom over the past few years."
"It represents one of the coolest designs this decade, and I can't get tired of looking at it."
"Electric cars are off to a strong start when it comes to getting renewable energy out on the road."
"Tesla was the runaway winner in retaining owner loyalty..."
"Tesla is getting ahead of things by holding a public question and answer session..."
"The performance of this aftermarket part speaks for itself."
"Until we've got Lucid Air in production, we really haven't achieved a thing."
"At Lucid, our engineers always push to the limits."
"We wanted it to be totally different than your traditional automotive dealership."
"TESLA WILL REPORTEDLY BUILD A NEW VEHICLE AT ITS FACTORY NEAR BERLIN THAT WILL SELL FOR UNDER $27,000."
"Tesla has become the most valuable auto industry company by pioneering EVs."
"They have a new partnership with Volkswagen."
"EVS are cheaper to run... it seems quite odd to me."
"We think that gas powered vehicles are going to be obsolete within the next five to ten years."
"Toyota inventory levels are so low... customers are getting frustrated."
"Toyota and Honda... getting angry as well... jealous of what's going on."
"Stop buying cars... the only Avenue as consumers that we have to get manufacturers and dealers to rethink how it is that they're doing business."
"I agree with David Attenborough when he says all our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder and ultimately impossible to solve with even more people."
"On the business of selling cars, they are actually leading the industry by a margin on profitability."
"It'll be like those F-150s that are stuck on the lot without a computer."
"Tesla has been lowering the prices of all their vehicles as they have increased efficiency in their production."
"I think Tesla's able to compete with all the luxury cars in Israel, a really smart market entrance."
"In a nutshell Tesla has killed General Motors and we're now witnessing them breathe their final breath."
"Tesla is one of the more straightforward and significant beneficiaries of the advance in neural network Tech."
"California is banning the sale of gas powered cars by 2035."
"It's great to see the good parts of Tesla being copied, and it should lead to lots of great competition in the future."
"2020 was a defining year for us on many levels...reached an important milestone of producing and delivering half a million cars."
"Tesla today is making twice as many as anyone else."
"I am selling the Tesla; this is missing an entire connector."
"Peugot, who have co-sponsored that legendary pro team back in the 80's, have just launched their first e-bike, perfectly integrated into their new SUV."
"Batteries will probably not be the limiting factor in Cybertruck production; new technology in the truck will take some time to work through."
"You know aspirationally we'd like it's in terms of just a rough order of magnitude but like cyber truck to be you know at least on the order of quarter million Vehicles a year."
"Lincoln plans to become an all-electric brand by 2030."
"Cadillac is moving toward becoming the tech-forward brand in GM's stable."
"I think coach built car companies are gonna come back from the dead... I think we'll see stuff like that happening."
"Model 3 became the best-selling mid-sized premium sedan in the world."
"Perfect my car's drunk so JD Power is out with their 2021 US EV experience ownership study and on a thousand point scale it shows surprise surprise Tesla has the highest ownership experience."
"The Cybertruck is going to change the entire landscape of the automotive world."
"Luxury cars offer the richest of the rich the opportunity to drive around in cars with an insane level of comfort."
"We live in a world now where Genesis is building these world-class luxury cars."
"Cars have quickly become computers on wheels."
"Volkswagen is really leading the race when it comes to mass distribution of electric cars."
"So many different categories of vehicle manufacturing that Tesla has completely rethought from the ground up."
"VW is planning to launch a fully electric pickup truck for the US by 2026."
"The goal is that these cars are available to anybody."
"The price is reasonable and I'm impressed that a car in this class could have Hyundai's long warranty."
"Kia won't tell us how many k-9 hundreds they would like to sell."
"The k900 was going to happen anyway for the domestic market."
"Tesla has plans for an even cheaper $25,000 model to come in the next few years."
"Bloomberg on Tesla's pricing strategy: 'Tesla has been starting their offerings at the average vehicle selling price in the US.'"
"Investing in Lordstown Motors: not a sprint, but a marathon."
"Lordstown Motors: a startup with the assets of an established manufacturer."
"This is the end of the internal combustion engine era."
"Tesla was the number one brand in this appeal survey for JD Power."
"Volkswagen confirmed this week that North American customers wanting to buy the 2023 Volkswagen ID4 can now look forward to buying a US-made car."
"Tesla's ability to almost seamlessly navigate incredible supply chain challenges."
"Cyber truck will serve rural populations. Get your cyber truck order in if you live out in the sticks somewhere."
"If it takes off, the Bronco could be a great moneymaker for Ford."
"Success or failure, it is a sign that Ford is focusing its attention on a market it knows well and can succeed in capable trucks and SUVs built mostly for Americans."
"It's starting to become real, this is coming in now, this is going to be used for the Cybertruck, and it just hits a little bit differently when it's coming out of the box and being set up here by Tesla in Texas."
"The model 3 topped the list. It held its value the best, it lost 5.5 percent of its value."
"Tesla is playing a game of 4D chess, outmaneuvering and out innovating entrenched automakers at such a pace that the likes of Ford and GM are going to wake up in a few years and ask one question: 'What the **** just happened?'"
"Cybertruck has flipped automotive manufacturing on its head and is on the cusp of redefining consumer expectations."
"The cheaper a vehicle is to produce, the cheaper it can be sold (which expands its market) and/or the better its profit margins can be."
"All along Tesla's advantage has been a first mover and having the range."
"To say, 'Wow, the next verse is really gonna get screwed,' I mean, guys, if somebody was in the business to screw somebody flipping a car... it's not something that's uncommon here in the United States."
"I have a lot of promise in Tesla. I think they're phenomenal cars, I love Elon Musk and his vision, I think he's been a wonderful genius and contributed a lot to the world."
"Tesla has their own R&D group working on material science things that we would never do in a normal OEM."
"You must benchmark Tesla. You must know what they're doing, their technology, the materials, everything that's going into their products."
"The future of the automotive industry will be extremely brutal with only a few car companies able to survive."
"We're mad as hell, and we don't want to buy cars this way anymore."
"General Motors reports surprising Q3 results while NIO passes them in market value after unveiling a new 100 kilowatt-hour battery."
"The reality is that EV sales growth, both on the new and the used side, is vastly outstripping combustion engine sales growth."
"Model 3 was once again the best-selling premium vehicle in the U.S."
"By next year they expect to sell twenty million cars globally, almost doubling sales in just two years."
"Arc Invest believes gas-powered vehicles will be obsolete in the next five to ten years."
"Peak car means that the world has essentially reached the point where it finally has pretty much all the cars that it needs."
"Electric Vehicle sales top one trillion in wake-up call for car makers. Legacy Automotive manufacturers are in full panic mode."
"The collapse of ICE vehicle sales is inevitable."
"Tesla really doesn't have an issue selling their cars right now. Their main issue is production and 2022 should finally be the year that they start catching up on current demand."
"2021 is about to end and Tesla is expected to close out the year selling nearly a million cars. This is a big deal because they are such a new company."
"The future is really bright for lucid motors."
"Subaru decided to dedicate themselves to interior parts quality and fit and finish."
"For those companies today who are not producing high volumes of compelling, profitable electric vehicles that consumers are willing to wait three, six, nine plus months to take delivery of, doesn't end well."
"The Honda CRV is very, very important to Honda because Honda sells more SI rvs in the United States than all of BMW put together."
"Toyota was once again on the road to success."
"A shortage of car parts is leaving many American drivers in a limbo."
"There's nothing like how I feel about Ford in Florida zone Elon is doing so much good for the world." - George Hotz
"Tesla may be better positioned than other U.S. automakers to survive."
"Tesla was able to eke out a 16 million dollar profit."
"I was asked to bring back Chrysler and General Motors. You brought them back right here in the state of Ohio in Michigan."
"We've seen with electric cars the right things are happening, the prices are starting to come down."
"Tesla will be by far the biggest beneficiary of the new proposed EV tax credits."
"Toyotas in general hold a higher resale value than many other brands."
"Tesla became the first applicant to be approved under the Bev program which allows them to sell cars in Malaysia without approved permit rules, making imported cars cheaper."
"We needed a new kind of truck and a new kind of car company."
"If we had to produce just one car... it should be the Civic."
"The beauty about the Miata is the aftermarket support is there—this car has a ton of it because it's been on the market for well over 30 years."
"Tesla's growth trajectory is staggering. With Model 3, Model Y, and more, the revenue could easily reach $100 billion."
"There will be a tsunami of affordable reliable electric vehicles coming to the US and Europe."
"Our facilities and dealerships are safely in operation."
"Tesla now at you know one tenth of the scale of Toyota roughly has posted a larger operating profit albeit some of that coming from regulatory credits but still that is a significant milestone."
"So good McLaren dealers are out there unfortunately there just aren't enough McLaren dealers."
"Sandy believes that with this technology other automakers like Toyota can actually compete with someone like Tesla."
"Tesla has been working crazy hard on self-driving, and it's a daunting task."
"Tesla versus Neo, battle for the world's largest EV market."
"The USMCA will save the American auto industry, create over 100,000 new auto jobs, and our factories will not be closing and moving to other faraway lands."