I’ve been singing Mary Barra’s praises for a long time now, here and on twitter. As CEO of General Motors, she has been doing such an excellent job and it’s funny that people have not been wising up to this for a long time. Maybe because she’s a woman and not as brash and loud […]
Tag: cars
Elon Musk vs. the SEC (how we got here)
I was a Tesla shareholder from 2012 until August 2017. My reasons for selling were very simple: I loved the company because they made great cars that combined technological futurism, environmental safety and performance. Insane, Apple level great, cars. But over the years, I had seen the CEO wreck the balance sheet by piling on […]
Why #Tesla Should Start a Bank
Okay, that’s an easy no. I suppose I’m not above a click bait headline or two. But being that Tesla is getting ready to attack the mass market in a big way, perhaps it’s time for them to start looking into financing the car loans that customers buy their cars with. It’s a beautiful business, […]
Dividend Bargain: General Motors Is A Buy
I have a few pre-set stock screeners that send stocks my way that meet certain criteria. Today, guess who pops up on it? Good old General Motors. The company is currently trading at a PE ratio of 4.09 (4.11 if we look at the trailing 12 months instead of year end). This means that every […]
Is This the New Tesla Motors?
I discovered Tesla Motors in 2012 through a Money magazine article asking, at the time, if this was the car maker equivalent of Apple. At the time, Apple was the sexy, bold and sleek tech company going where others only imagined (God I miss that Apple) and Tesla was an upstart company led by a […]
Why Apple (or Google) buying Tesla is a Bad Idea
It’s a tech industry trope at this point: Apple should buy Tesla as it’s move into the auto space. And with Google’s recent reorganization, there’s been some musings that the company should buy Tesla to beef up its hardware chops and have a key vehicle for its autonomous driving software. On the face of it, […]
#RadAds: The Best Ad In A Long Time
I’m always interested in new ways that brands try to engage with customers or reimagine their marketing experience. So I instantly fell in love with this new ad I stumbled upon from Honda. It’s the good guy-bad guy parallel universe used to great effect to introduce two versions of the new Civic. Check it out here. Make […]