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As the market value of Tesla, a popular electric car company, has repeatedly broken new highs and gradually become a benchmark enterprise in the field of electric vehicles, however, in the face of this, an engineer who calls himself Ford Motor expressed some of his views on Tesla at a foreign forum, not only praising Tesla's technologically leading industry, but also criticizing it for its many shortcomings.

A few days ago, an anonymous netizen participated in an AMA session on a foreign Reddit forum. In this session, the netizen introduced himself at the beginning. He claimed to be an engineer of the Ford Mustang Mach-E project and a fan of electric cars. He spent most of his career in electric cars.

To this end, in the link, he mentioned a lot of information about Ford Mustang Mach-E and his views on Tesla. Although the topic was later deleted, some careful netizens saved and posted its screenshots on the Mach E forum.

At first, the engineer praised Tesla's progress in electric vehicles, saying that they were five years ahead of the industry in technology and engineering in battery and high-voltage electronics, as well as their ability to master these technologies. But then complained about Tesla's many shortcomings, including logistics management and quality.

He believes that Tesla's quality is very bad, dismantling several Tesla models and finding loose screws falling directly into the chassis near sensitive parts, this situation is very dangerous, and "electronic products" often violate safety standards and do not comply with UL regulations. In addition, the engineer also mentioned that Tesla lags far behind many large car companies in terms of shape design, experience, manufacturing, logistics, and so on, so he thinks that Tesla should not build cars, but should only produce systems and frames. The rest is made by companies that are good at making cars.

As more and more traditional car companies enter the field of electric vehicles, including Ford Motor, which recently completed mass production of Ford Mach-E, the first electric model in the United States, as one of Tesla's competitors, it is also normal to adopt "black" behavior to highlight its own strengths to belittle each other's disadvantages.

In fact, it is not the first time that Tesla's quality problems have been exposed. the quality control, workmanship and quality problems of his brand electric vehicles have almost become a major black spot of the brand, which has been repeatedly complained by users. even some simple failures are only caused by defects in the manufacturing process. These problems look very serious after being exposed by the media, but Tesla has always firmly denied that the problems are only an isolated phenomenon.

It is not uncommon for customers to return their cars due to quality problems. In February last year, German car rental company NextMove signed an agreement with Tesla to purchase 100 Model 3 electric models, but only 15 Model 3 NextMoves were delivered and found that there were many quality problems, so they decided to cooperate with Tesla to directly cancel the delivery order for the remaining 85 Model 3.

In April of the same year, Shenma chauffeured car, a Chinese new energy chauffeured car company, issued a rights action statement after buying 278 Tesla, embarking on the road of safeguarding rights because of Tesla's frequent quality problems and poor after-sales service.

As for Tesla's design, Tesla released a strange all-electric pickup truck-Cybertruck (Cyber pickup truck) in Los Angeles on November 22nd last year, and this look has also been complained by many netizens, and many netizens said: this design is not too casual, like a semi-finished product.

However, whether it is due to strange design or poor quality, Tesla's models have achieved good sales. Unlisted electric pickups have now been booked by more than 146000 people, and its Model 3 has become the highest-selling electric model in 2019, with cumulative sales of 300885 vehicles for the whole year.

With the delivery of the Model 3 in China and the upcoming Model Y, Tesla's sales will continue to rise, so that many investors are bullish on buying shares in Tesla. Tesla shares rose 13.73% to $887.06 by Tuesday's close local time, with a total market capitalization of about $159.888 billion, equivalent to Tesla's share price has tripled in the past three months.

In this regard, Xiaopeng Automobile CEO he Xiaopeng, one of the domestic new power car manufacturing enterprises, said that he did not understand why Tesla could soar so much. Although he Xiaopeng believes that in the next 10 years, smart cars will have a number of companies with a market capitalization of more than 100 billion to 1 trillion US dollars, including Tesla, Apple and other enterprises are very powerful players, so he also owns some of Tesla's shares. However, he feels that at present, Tesla has not reached the logic of raising the valuation so quickly.

According to Tesla's latest results for the fourth quarter of 2019, the company's revenue in the fourth quarter was $7.38 billion, up 2% from the same period last year; net profit reached $105 million, down 25% from the same period last year; total revenue for the whole year was $24.578 billion, compared with $21.46 billion in the same period last year, an increase of 14.6% The full-year net loss of $862 million, compared with a loss of $976 million in the same period last year, narrowed year-on-year losses, which means the company is still losing money, and investors should be more cautious as a company that is still losing money, unless it is held for a long time.

In any case, Tesla is indeed the most successful enterprise in the field of electric vehicles, so it has been emulated by many electric car companies. At the same time, the growing market capitalization also means Tesla's prospects in the smart car industry, but efforts will be made to improve its quality, service and other aspects, so as to match the market capitalization and value as far as possible.

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