TSLA's share price likely sees negligible immediate impact from the flying Roadster demo; the Roadster will be low-volume and small next to a core business still reliant on Model Y, Model 3 and energy storage. Its value is long-term brand perception among future buyers, a major success.
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It's not like I'm constantly looking for opportunities to talk about Tesla's new flying roadster. The video on PBD Podcast Valuetainment specifically features the flying Tesla Roadster.
It has crossed 1 million views and is still growing.
I didn't say that, Tesla tweeted it itself. Elon says, "We have to keep the audience because people won't believe what we're launching today." They will say it's AI, but it's not. It's real.
So this car suddenly starts flying, flipping and spinning, and people who have vertigo problems will think, "I would never want to do that in my life."
And besides, have you seen the car he built? How fast did it go from zero to 60? Did you see that clip? 0.81 seconds. It goes from zero to 60 in 0.81 seconds, Vinnie. You have to see this. This is crazy.
Again, this is not AI. How is this possible? How is this possible? No, I'm telling you. Are you telling me this is real? It's real. It's true. It just happened. It just happened.
There are spectators there. Just now and that's one of the clips.
Do you know what question Tico kept asking? Are you kidding? Is there anyone inside the car? Dylan kept asking, is there anyone inside the car? I said, that's actually a pretty good question.
But probably. If there was someone in the car. And they said 'no' during the entire presentation, as anyone who watched the whole thing knows. There was a chance that this demonstration might not go as planned, and you certainly wouldn't want a fire or someone to burn to death during your first showing of your flying roadster.
Tom, can we see the status of Tesla shares? What do you think? For a company worth nearly a trillion dollars, you wouldn't expect an event like this to change investor perceptions much.
Everyone knows Tesla does amazing things. Their technology is incredible. They have talented engineers. This is a new company, so proving their engineering capabilities may be a different matter.
However, most investors have realized that this product is truly incredible.
Tesla may not sell 100,000 units of the new Roadster a year. So, from an investor's perspective, the new Roadster will likely generate a very small but highly profitable revenue stream, which is very small compared to Tesla's overall business.
Their core business is still dependent on the Model Y, to some extent the Model 3, and energy storage products.
However, it must be said that its positive impact on the Tesla brand, the perception of Tesla among customers around the world, potential future buyers, Cybertruck passengers, Model Y buyers - all of these will serve as real impacts or indirect results on Tesla's business.
It's not like money is being printed by selling a lot of Roadsters, and so the share price will suddenly go up because the Roadster is going to be a profitable and high-selling car.
It's going to be a low-selling yet highly profitable car, but Tesla has once again proven their cool factor and every person on earth has seen this demo.
The Roadster is still shaking up the internet. I mean, take this video, it has a million views. And for those who watched my short video about the Roadster yesterday, that two and a half minute clip from the event has had 1.1 million views. This is a huge audience.
The bottom line is that the immediate impact on Tesla shares, as you would expect, is likely to be negligible. But the long-term impact on Tesla's business and the perception it has created among consumers, many of whom will become future buyers, is a major success.
Never mind how much attention it got. I think everyone who saw this scene was surprised and said, "Unbelievable!" And eventually, or very soon, they will visit Tesla's website and order a Model 3 or Model Y for themselves.
The real value of Tesla's flying roadster was not in its immediate business impact. Its real value was in the long-term impact on the brand, in being the center of global conversation for a day, stirring up the entire internet, and still generating endless memes and discussions.
That was exactly the main purpose of this product and event.
You can't just buy this kind of attention and influence on a brand. Even with an endless budget or a trillion dollars, you can't run enough Super Bowl ads to make consumers think about your brand the way they currently think about Tesla, even after manipulating them through advertising and market research. This doesn't work like that.
The positive impact that the Flying Roadster demo has had on Tesla's business and on the perceptions of current and future consumers cannot be created with any money, just as it could be created by actually building and demonstrating a flying car.
Just look at this thing, bro. It's one of the most iconic, awesomest, coolest, most incredible, funny, weird, extravagant, and completely unnecessary—and that's exactly why it's one of the coolest things you'll ever see. You can't buy it with money. You have to do it.
Tesla is the only company in the world that has managed to do this. You can't buy what Tesla has done with money. You have to do what Tesla did. And that's why it's so cool. You can't buy it with money. You have to do it.
As he said, we need an audience to prove that it is not AI or SI. And he was right. Many people's first reaction to these clips was that they thought it was AI. I noticed that when Elon was hyping this topic, he was smiling like I've never seen him at an event before.
His expression showed how excited he was to show it. You will understand how much blood, sweat, tears, energy, engineering, and hard work went into it. He knew how incredible and amazing it was going to be.
His excitement was evident as if he wanted to set the entire internet ablaze, and the flying roadster did just that. He knew.
So you can tell people that you saw it with your own eyes, because you can't believe what you see with your own eyes. He is not lying. But you are about to see the results of the joint efforts of the world's best car company and the world's best rocket company.
Do you think that PS, which may one day become the best company in the world in the future? Slightly competitive. And this is an incredible combination of work. I am the best.
Tesla and SpaceX engineers are working together to create something you've never seen in a movie, better than a James Bond car. Okay, you're going to see something. Stop there.
Let me show you one more and then I'll come to you.
Well, just me. Can you do me a favor? Elon first played that clip on Rogan's show. Okay, this is very important. This was his first time on Rogan's show. They are having a conversation.
Elon is explaining to him what he is creating. Watch this clip. Run.
Put a rocket thruster on it. Really? He is smiling. He thinks he's kidding. Nothing. High pressure compressed air. Year 2018. Eight years ago. Cold gas thruster. So do you need to have an air tank or are they pulling air, okay?
Yes, there is only one electric pump. Oh. It pumps up to about 10,000 PSI. And how much speed are we talking about? It is from 0 to 60. How fast do you want to go? We will install rocket thrusters. How fast do you want to go?
Okay Adam, what are your thoughts on this? Okay, just a question, do you think this is turning into a competition? Like we have to win the flying car race, because we lost the 4G, 5G, train race, you know?
I don't know the business side. I am asking you. What do you think, Tom? You, what are you thinking?
This is a very good question. China and we need to protect this intellectual property (IP). Yes, I think China has done better at protecting their patents. Oh, and ours are being stolen. And research and development, yes yes.
Tom, what are you thinking? Look, I went to see if I could get it, but it says invitees only. You know, there are two levels to this. Yes, deposit 5000, deposit 45 thousand. Invited?
I have to write one. Yes. I was invited to both. Did you get one or two? I am um....
So, basically it is known as a flagship car. Hyper cars are flagship cars, all car companies do it. But it is exactly what he said, a joint venture between the world's best rocket company and the world's best car company.
And he is putting together here what you saw there.
It worked, there was something under the car that was pulling air and it was holding the car to the ground. And that's when it flipped over and when you see it spinning, you'll see something like a little puff of smoke on the side.
It's a, as he said, 10,000 psi cold gas thruster that sprays out the side and what it does is it turns the car around.
And the rotation he's talking about has created the most wonderful moment in history, and honestly, it's the best march I'm probably going to bring to this store. The link below is smrmerch.com. Okay, my campaign is over. Or is it not over?
This is his hypercar. He has five aces (five aces) in his hand. Yes, five. Would you buy one? Should I buy one? Of course. Have you ever bought a Tesla before? Um no, I didn't buy it.
Have you ever bought a Tesla before? No. Okay. Obviously, I'm not asking, I'm just leaning that way. I'm leaning, but listen to me. Would this encourage you to buy one? I have never owned a Tesla in my life.
This is the same thing that could be seen on the side of the old Apollo command module. These are the same things that are on the side of the space shuttle, which act like small jets on the side and help the object rotate.
So, everything you see here is true. I understand this completely.
Yes, you look at the picture on the top left. In the image on the top left, do you see the small square jets on the side? Next to them are jets pointing north, south, east, and west. He did exactly that in a car on Earth.
So, it's like a hypercar flagship that shows people that it goes up a ramp, latches itself onto the roof, jumps, the thrusters fire, spin the car around, then the thrusters fire back down the same way they do when they land a rocket, slowing it down by going in reverse.
And then the big metal chopsticks come out and grab it. It works on the same principle. The same method he saw bringing the rocket back to Earth brings the car back to the ground.
My, but my question is, anyway, I just have one thing to add here. We will be honest with you. Is there any idiot these days who would choose any other so-called hypercar or supercar in the world, even if they had the budget to buy a Tesla Roadster?
The existence of Tesla's flying roadster has now completely eliminated the impact of owning any other weird, ultra-high-performance car. It's all over. Before, people could argue about which option to choose, because I had more than 20 cutting-edge hypercars to show the whole world.
But now there is only one option. Tesla's flying roadster has brought the entire hypercar industry to its knees. There is no way back from here. This will destroy everything in acceleration performance.
If you get the top trim, it probably won't be road legal. It will really fly. The game ends here. If you have the budget and the needs, how can you choose anything other than a Tesla Roadster?
And for everyone else, ordinary people like us who can't afford the new Tesla Roadster, at least you can buy the new Tesla Roadster merchandise.
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