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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by cortesoft on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:02PM (#12801073)
If they make more profit by selling more units at a lower price... then why don't they always just do that?
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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by jacquesm on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:11PM (#12801138)
They don't make more profit per vehicle, they just made more profit in a short window of time by doing more sales but this may not be sustainable because it just shifts sales around rather in time at a lower profit per vehicle.
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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by fweespeech on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @07:15PM (#12801617)
Production bottlenecks.

Tesla is constantly behind on producing cars for its customers. They just wanted to generate money now rather than later.

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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by mikeash on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:38PM (#12801363)
Building lots of cars is hard. It takes a lot of time and money to ramp up production capacity to this level. They've been building cars as fast as they could for years now.
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