TaaSMaster

Randall McAdory, founder of TaaSMaster. Structural questions the press releases don't answer. Thirty-plus years at the intersection of automotive and data.

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The Musk variable doesn't sit alongside the financial model. It operates inside it. TAM estimates, market share assumptions, DCF inputs — all shaped by what the analyst believes about one founder. That's why the valuation debate can't be resolved by better arithmetic.

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Lucid produced 5,500 vehicles in Q1. Delivered 3,093. That gap isn't a rounding error. It's a demand signal dressed as an operational metric.

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@munster_gene Austin is a milestone. The valuation needs four: vision-only autonomy proven, cost advantage at fleet scale, international regulatory approval, dominant share against Waymo. One resolved. Three open.

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@jameslavish @thisisomid_tc Deep and true conviction seems like a religion, not first principles.

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@FredLambert The chart makes the distinction that matters: Tesla demonstrated unsupervised operation. It hasn’t demonstrated unsupervised scale. Those are separate thresholds. One resolves the technology question. The other is what the valuation actually requires.

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@Tim_Denning Depends on how you define rich. It won’t be the same for everyone. In fact , my guess is it’ll be a different answer for most.

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@Tim_Denning When you hate yourself? I’m not sure that’s the only motivation required.

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The Chinese wall has always been porous during IPO season. The more useful question: if Brinkman's removal is visible, how many less visible incentive conflicts are already embedded in the consensus price targets? The Tesla valuation debate has a Musk variable problem. It may also have a banking calendar problem.

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@farzyness Ferrari is sold out. completely sold out. doubling sales overnight is not a goal of Ferrari. In fact sales volume is not a goal as it is with practically every other automaker in the world

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ARK has Tesla at $9 trillion by 2029. Wedbush has it at $3 trillion this year. Morgan Stanley at $415. That spread isn't a modeling disagreement. It's a disagreement about one person's ability to win a market that isn't fully formed yet.

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@2001TJSahara @TansuYegen What engine?

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PIF deployed $9.5 billion into Lucid. Lucid's current market cap: $1.9 billion. That's nearly 5x capital deployed versus current public market value. The question isn't whether PIF walks away. It's whether patience still operates on the same clock it did three years ago.

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Tesla may solve autonomy. Waymo is already operating it. Those are not the same bet. Tesla’s valuation requires you to believe solving the technology and winning the market happen together, on schedule. That’s three separate conditions dressed as one.
#waymo #tesla

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@JPCrowl @beehiiv @beehiiv Must be down. I can’t login to my account. And links from LinkedIn to my Beehiiv content are not working.

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@GailYoung42241 I have same problem.

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Western OEMs aren't losing the EV transition because of bad strategy.

They're losing it because the transition has to be funded by the very business it's disrupting.

https://t.co/07mDkngQXc

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Lucid has world-class EV engineering.

But the auto industry isn’t won in the lab.

It’s won in factories.

Lucid’s real challenge isn’t technology.

It’s the brutal economics of scaling an automaker.

My latest analysis:

https://t.co/2KNCFWQVXl

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Ford is a giant navigating a propulsion shift—not an EV startup proving viability.

After 4 years of disclosed losses, the question remains: Has transparency sharpened Ford’s execution, or just the market’s knives?

Full breakdown: https://t.co/2V8dNKMW9z

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In 2022, Ford did something bold: they aired their "dirty laundry" for the world to see.

By isolating Model e (EVs) as its own financial segment, they became the only legacy OEM to spotlight losses quarter after quarter.

Strategic asset or self-inflicted wound? 🧵

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This choice has created a gravity well.

Ford Pro is a powerhouse. Ford Blue is a cash engine. Yet, because of the "Model e" burn-rate headline, the whole company is defined by its loss center.

Is the "urgency" worth the "Skepticism Tax" Ford pays to the Street?