Good to hear. One reaps what they sew.

 

Oh, please. Those political protests mean very little in the scheme of things. Especially when so many Tesla haters are driving VWs.
What it really means is that Tesla “created” (really just expanded) a market niche, got nice profits, the competition responded with equal or better product, and Tesla didn’t respond quick enough (not addressing quality or taking the completion seriously enough). Leaving politics out of it, it’s not that different than the Jeep brand trajectory.

 

IMO, Musk now demanding the board pay him one TRILLION dollars is because he knows he cannot fix Tesla any more, and he wants his money before this becomes obvious to everyone.

 

Outside of politics, Tesla is guilty of over promising, Having people pre pay on hype alone. I’ve seen plenty of vaporware over here, but there wasn’t a line of people putting down cash to reserve a chance to buy. The free loan, emission credit, status symbol advantage is gone. The halo has faded and the glow is gone. All the cracks are showing

 

And yet Tesla stock and marketcap is still worth more than the rest of world's auto industry combined. I.e., money's free for tesla and Musk, while it is getting ever scarcer for others....as Marchionne said: the industry does NOT earn its cost of capital, and neither does tesla by now (other than through er conjurings)

 

Replying in private and closing.