- Porche's Taycan EV is supposed to be the closest direct competition for Tesla cars, but its having production issues.
  - Tesla just pushed a new software update that includes a lot of useful features (voice keyboard/commands, an official camping mode, saving camera clips on honk, etc)
  - A lot of miscellaneous positive press is cropping up from the end of the year and end of the decade type reporting - Time for example put it as one of the "best gadgets of the decade".
  - They recently released and presumably are testing a paid software update to boost M3LR off the line acceleration, which is an interesting situation to obtain revenue from already sold cars.
  - Internally they're pushing to sell a lot to break sales numbers before EOY.  Some places are reporting that they're even selling showroom floor models.
  - They secured a US$1.4B loan from Chinese banks for GF3 acceleration, which was already ahead of schedule.
  - They closed on the land for GF4 and are reportedly looking to start building Jan 2020.
  - The recent news of possibly reinvigorating the EV tax credits in some way probably also helped.
  - Solar is ramping up as well.