[panick21_]

> then Ford will presumably make some money from me

That's not at all certain when buying and EV.

> but it looks to me like they're losing a lot of their first-mover advantages now

That's what people have been saying since 2014 and Tesla has just continued to grow.

> and they'll probably be losing some margin

Given that they have improved prices quite a bit and still have lots of order backlog, I would suspect the opposite.

Maybe total operational margin will be down because of Berlin and Texas factories, but automotive margin is unlikely to go down.

[hotpotamus]

Just saw this post and it pisses me off. Not because I disagree - I truly don't know the future for Tesla and it's interesting, but what the hell is "improved prices" supposed to mean? Sure sounds like marketing bullshit for "increased" - I don't consider that an improvement.

[panick21_]

I have dyslexia, I wanted to write 'increased'.

[hotpotamus]

Lol, well then I don't have much of a problem with that thesis.