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Summary
Tesla reported its worst quarterly results in four years, with Q1 income down 71% and EV sales falling 13%.
Elon Musk vowed to refocus on Tesla amid backlash over his political role in the Trump Administration’s DOGE program, but analysts doubt his return will fix worsening issues.
Tesla faces eroding market share, failed products like the Cybertruck, and a coming 145% tariff on imported Chinese battery cells set to hammer the company’s battery pack business, one of the only bright spots last quarter.
Musk’s pivot to robotaxis and humanoid robots lacks credibility, and critics say Tesla has no compelling new EVs to revive growth.
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Has he considered resigning?
That’s not enough. As long as Musk owns even one share of Tesla, he makes money each time a Tesla car sells, and a lot of people including I can’t stomach that.
I might consider purchasing a Tesla vehicle if I knew Musk doesn’t get any of my money. As long as he gets even one cent of my money, I’ll buy some other brand.
The whole board and major investors condoned this. Fuck the whole brand. Now and forever. They don’t need to be redeemed if they do the right thing, we’ll be fine without them. The smart people that actually make things happen will go work for better companies.
He handpicked the board
Exactly. Fuck them.
From life…
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If he resigns, Tesla becomes just another car company. Car companies get a P/E ratio of 7 (if they’re well run). Tesla’s P/E ratio is above 160. Elon Musk’s “genius” leadership is how Tesla investors have convinced themselves that they’re not investing in a typical car company. If he goes, the stock tanks. But, then again, if he stays, the stock tanks because he’s clearly not a genius, and even if he was he’s an evil genius and people don’t want to buy cars associated with his brand.
Reinstate Eberhard and Tarpenning.
Weird way to say fuck off to Mars.
He should try the Nazi salut. 3rd resets the counter.
Again i ask: have you tried not being a nazi bastard?
I mean the option’s right there.
He’s tried nothing and Is all out ideas.
Is It Elon that is wrong? No it must be the consumers!
He threw Sieg Heils and is now out of ideas
Ok, hear me out, maybe what he needs is lots more sieg heils? It worked for that mustache dude 70ish years ago, hitler.
If hitler had given up after just 2 sieg heils then not many people would know his name. Come on, Muskrat, show some belief in yourself!!
Does negging his customers count as an idea?
Burning your good will with your primary customer base by throwing your weight behind a political group full of the worst of society that has the public support of the statistically poorest in society wasn’t a great long term plan?
Shocking, well not that shocking.
There is only 1 way to save that business and thats for elon to get rid of it.
Nobody is going to forget whats he’s done or the fact that he is a nazi.
I think Tesla as a whole is done unfortunately. People aren’t going to forget all this BS the board of directors has allowed him to do.
That may no longer be enough. It won’t matter if people no longer boycott them but
- huge money loss in Cybertruck
- investment in robotaxi won’t pan out for years, if ever
- in US, batteries are mostly from overseas and heavily tariffed
- all the US protectionism won’t be enough if they lose China and European markets
- other companies are finally catching up, while they wasted their efforts
- semi has potential, but that’s a very conservative market and environmental regulations are getting rolled back so there’s no longer that push
There’s going to be blood at that company. A huge reset, in addition to musk leaving, is what they need
Semi is a POS designed by a bunch of engineers who have never operated a semi.
Hell - with the center-space driver’s seat, the driver can’t hand over an ID or a clipboard at a gatehouse without exiting the vehicle through the rear of the cab and walking around.
Their official stance has long been Elon is Tesla. Fuck them.
Americans famously never forget…
There are other, indirect ways to hurt Tesla.
For example, when I call a cab, I tell the dispatcher I don’t want to ride in a Tesla taxi. And one dispatcher a few weeks ago told me I wasn’t the only one requesting that.
One thing that might help is to stop carrying around that human shield. Just a matter of time after that.
Tesla doesn’t need him to refocus, the damage is done. He fucked it all up trying to impress everyone at 4 chan with his nazi salutes, deal with it chainsaw performance, firing thousands of people nonchalant, etc.
As long as he’s tied to the brand in any way it’s cooked.
But he looked cool wearing the cheese head before he fucked up his attempt to corrupt the Wisconsin judiciary, right?
He had to emphasize on the Roman salute twice
What a fucking loser
One thing that must be made clear to casual observers is that the Tesla stock price is still batshit crazy high.
The logic to support the price is:
Your are not buying the current company, you are buying the cool stuff Elon is making in the future.
Without that leap of faith, the price has to collapse. There is no way an electric car company will ever support even the current stock price.
There will be a tremendous amount of copium ingested before gravity hits, but the bigger fool theory will have its way.
I wonder how many people have gone broke trying to short Tesla. It just doesn’t make sense, but apparently the market has an infinite ability to be irrational.
Textbook example of “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
One thing that must be made clear to casual observers is that the Tesla stock price is still batshit crazy high.
Earnings report is really bad … stock price surges! Make it make sense.
Who cares. Tesla is run by a Nazi. It doesn’t deserve to survive. Musk doesn’t give a shit about the environment or saving it. He only cares about his bank balance.
🖕Musk 🖕Tesla 🖕Nazis
The being a Nazi strategy didn’t pan out I guess
Elon musk, resign bitch.
His real decision is going to be suing everyone that doesn’t buy a tesla.
Has he tried stop being a cunt?
Way too late for that. Too many potential customers will now never buy a Tesla as long as he’s associated with the brand in any way. About the only option he has to try to save the brand is to sever all ties with the company and walk away. But his ego will never allow that.
I would buy a tesla, but only if they fire/disown musk, undo every trace of him, and do a complete 180 politically. Oh and make the cars suck way less.
Even in a very optimistic timeline it would take years for Tesla cars to suck less. I don’t think Tesla has that kind of time any more, now that there’s growing competition from big automakers like Honda & Toyota as well as Hyundai, Volkswagen, etc. and all the other EV companies like Rivian.
Those established automakers have a long history of innovating & listening to customers. As their expansion into the EV market grows, they’re going to put a lot of pressure on Tesla to innovate as well, and that doesn’t mean bowing to whatever whims the CEO has.
That’s wishful thinking
- Japanese manufacturers may have started driving toward the party but they’re way late and lost along the road
- US legacy manufacturers will stick with gasoline trucks, and are rolling back their EV efforts
- Rivian and Lucid are promising but still in the business of a small number of niche models. Rivian may change that in the next couple years but it’s not a given
So, Hyundai/Kia. And we’re wondering why Chinese companies look like they’re about to take over
Honda and Toyota are flopping HARD on EVs. Their EVs suck, like worst in the market suck. Hyundai / Kia are doing a great job, and VW is boring but okay (now after fixing the 3.0 software debacle).
I wish rivian and lucid had more funding, cause their cars are top notch, but the companies have growth pains.
I can’t speak to Honda’s current line up, but my Clarity PHEV is fricken’ amazing. Best car I’ve ever owned.
I was speaking specifically about BEVs, since we are comparing to Tesla.
Likely correct on paragraph 1, paragraph 2… not so much.
The reason tesla was able to get such a foothold was because they were innovating where the established automakers were floundering.
Tesla understood the Achilles’ heel of EVs and got to fucking work on building out a charging network. This is a strong moat.
In defense of the established automakers, they wisened up and got into the EV market before it was too late. They adapted instead of becoming the next Blockbuster or Kodak.
Any advantage that Tesla had is long gone.
Honestly I think the real nail in the coffin for that company would be if another company like BYD came in and started selling their EVs on the market. Cause unlike Tesla they make decent cars at affordable prices.
If by “being a cunt”, you mean “breathing”: we can only hope.
Narcissistic personality disorder would never allow such a thing.
Goodbye, Tesla, and good riddance. Some salutes will never be forgotten.
It’s all fun and games until your billion dollar company gets taken down.
