As predicted last month, Tesla outsold Audi in August: And it looks like Mercedes and BMW are next. Most of this is thanks to the Model 3 which outsold all the competition from all brands significantly, not just the Germans. (Chart Credit: Vladimir Grinshpun) Here is a comparison with BMW, Mercedes and Audi vehicles in the same…
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Here are some pictures from our recent trip to Switzerland: On our last trip, Switzerland was next after Iceland. Weather was perfect after the miserable biting cold in Iceland and one more destination in Asphalt 8 was checked off. I highly recommend visiting Glacier 3000. We had a Eurail pass and that got us a…
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Asphalt 8 used to be my son’s favorite game to play a few years ago and we spent many hours racing each other. And sometimes we still do. One of the things we like to do is travel and Asphalt 8 races are all over the globe. So what better way to choose places to…
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Just today, there was an interesting article at Seeking Alpha about how much money Tesla needs to go private: Investor Type Holdings % Holdings Amount Expected Cash Out Expected Remaining General Public 16% 11 11 0 Institutions 59% 41 19 22 Insiders 20% 14 0 14 Public Companies 5% 4 0 4 Totals: 100% 70…
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Here are some photos from walking around in Reykjavík: Click the map below for walking directions on Google Maps: The map shows the route we walked. After the Sun Voyager, it is a quick walk to Laugavegur, which is the main street where you can find lots of places to eat. Surprisingly, in Iceland, it was…
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On our trip last month, we visited Iceland, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. And Project Fi worked flawlessly everywhere. Every country we visited, we got this welcome message as Project Fi connected to local cellphone networks. It even connected in Liechtenstein as the train we were on passed through. Iceland is missing from my screenshots because…
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Here are pictures from the South Coast Tour with Reykjavic Sightseeing: Unlike the Ice and Lava tour, on this one our guide was basically a shepherd to keep people on schedule. The tablet guides were nice and on this one and the Ice and Lava tour the buses had USB charging slots and wifi. There…
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In my last post I talked about Model 3 crossing all other comparable sedans and all other electric vehicles combined. Here is a look at Tesla US unit sales compared to the German luxury brands: (Data from InsideEVs, GoodCarBadCar and Press Releases) I expect Tesla to cross Audi sales next month. It should exceed BMW…
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Tesla recently provided this very interesting chart of market share of the Model 3 vs other luxury sedans. Basically Tesla is outselling everyone combined as it delivers cars to the hundreds of thousands of reservation holders: This is only going to get worse over the next few months as Tesla clears its backlog before things…
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I’ve been trying to teach my son how to code. Here is some history on our projects so far if you just happened to stumble upon this post. A few weeks ago we were at a point where we were reaching the limits of what we can do moving HTML div’s around without things getting…
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