
Adam Adamowski
119 posts








$META Every time I swear lol





WARNING: TESLA RED PILL INCOMING. CONTINUE READING AT YOUR OWN RISK. @elonmusk This is a widely held misconception about Tesla, at least partially. The reason Tesla is so far ahead has not only to do with the Model Y being a strong product and brand, but also with capital and politics. Let me explain. 1) Tesla is the only large EV maker globally with factories in all three major markets: China, the US, and Europe. None of the other large EV makers have that footprint. Most Chinese EV makers do not even have meaningful manufacturing capacity outside China. 2) As a result, their global sales are artificially suppressed by tariffs and trade barriers. Some Chinese OEM's pay over 40% tariffs! 3) While Tesla can collect sales across all major regions, Chinese manufacturers are effectively locked out of the US market and highly restricted in Europe due to tariffs. 4) This means Tesla gets to compete across a much larger addressable market. Comparing Tesla's global sales with the global sales of Chinese EV makers is therefore inherently not an apples to apples comparison. "But AJ, that's bullsh*t. The Chinese can just build factories on all three continents like Tesla." Well, not quite. Tesla's extremely inflated share price gave the company an enormous capital raising advantage. No automaker globally has had anywhere near as low a cost of capital as Tesla. Tesla's factories are already built and paid for. The major cash outflow is behind them. Today, there are depreciation charges and ongoing operating costs, but the large factory buildout already happened. Chinese OEMs, by contrast, would have to put real cash on the table today to build factories abroad. On top of that, they cannot be sure whether they will face political headwinds that effectively deter or block large scale investments in the US and Europe. Several projects have already been delayed, scaled back, or put on ice. Hence, please stop making these nonsensical comparisons. The truth is that sales numbers can only be compared properly in markets where there is an even playing field. The closest we have is China. In China, Tesla still leads, but by an ever smaller margin. Other OEMs, for example Xiaomi, are selling nearly as many units at a similar price point with the same number of models, namely two. In the US, the gap is much larger because there is no large and highly competitive domestic EV competitor at Tesla's price and volume level and there won't be since Trump killed OEMs' incentives to move more strongly into EVs. Tariffs have successfully locked out the most competitive Chinese players. Hence, a US comparison is highly limited. Similar applies to Europe. European OEMs have been quite uncompetitive, but even there the gap is narrowing. Bottom line: comparing Tesla's global sales with EV makers that are objectively constrained in their global reach is not serious analysis. It is a flawed comparison. x.com/philipengberg/…




Hot take on what comes next, after the sudden decline of tokenmaxxing: - OpenAI will struggle - with the decline of tokenmaxxing Anthropic will struggle (aside from this quarter) to make a profit - Google will catch up to Anthropic - some Chinese companies might, too - LLMs will become commodities; margins will be very very thin - Most of the companies that invested massively in them will struggle to make back their investments - SpaceX’s AI efforts will flail - Nvidia will eventually decline, once all of the above becomes widely recognized.



