In 2019, BMW tried to start charging on a monthly or annual basis for enabling Apple CarPlay, but later changed its mind and returned to a one-off fee. While most car makers use Apple CarPlay integration as a feature to justify the purchase price, there’s always a chance in the futur...
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Solar leases are a common way to cover the costs of installing a solar energy system, but they also come with some very real downsides that are important to understand. Leases can cause more trouble than they’re worth, so it's essential to conduct research before signing any contract. ...
Companies are leaders (AAA, AA), average (A, BBB, BB), or laggards (B, CCC). Others use numeric scores. But just because a company is strong in one area doesn’t guarantee a great rating. Tesla scores high on E, but its S and G issues bring its overall rating down. And it is...
today. It refers to models trained to perform specific tasks, such as language translation, spam filtering and image recognition.Intelligent agentslike Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, the recommendation engines used by Netflix and Amazon, Tesla's Autopilot and Google ...
With Tesla growing at an exponential rate, the bonds are now selling at a premium Those holding the bonds no longer want to sell them at their face value of $500 Instead, bondholders are asking for $750 per bond This means that you are paying a 50% premium on the bonds ($500/$750...
This often implies targeting a market that often is as large as a billion-dollar in annual sales. Distribution Are there existing networks you can leverage on? What viral loops can you create to spread your product/service quickly and at scale?
Tesla first turned a profit in 2020, but its financials continue to be volatile. In the second quarter of 2024, the company's profits plunged more than 40% compared to the same quarter the year before. Investors are wondering if this is a temporary blip or if we're now past Tesla's e...
Capital expenditures can help improve a company's operational efficiency and productivity and increase its revenue in the long term. But they often require a significant outlay of money and may also necessitate borrowing. For that reason, companies will typically perform acost-benefit analysisto ...
Pro forma means “for the sake of form” or “as a matter of form." When it appears in financial statements, it indicates that a method of calculating financial results using certainprojectionsor presumptions has been used. Pro forma financials are not computed usinggenerally accepted accounting...