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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things really went to shit when he mimicked hitler. maybe in order to reverse it he needs to mimick hitler again. now what did he do to get out of the mess he created for himself?
Here’s a plan : leave the engineers do their work, stop interfering with innovation, and just shut the fuck up. Not sure it would save tesla, but it would get a fighting chance.
That’s how they became so big in the first place.
I honestly think there’s going to be a mockumentary about him eventually. The alleged stories are straight out of a sitcom. With his PA distracting him from engineers doing important work, giving him fake people to fire when he got in one of his moods, keeping his wild antics away from social media, etc.
Then she asked for a raise and he fired her, afterwards he unraveled.
Let Tesla fail and Musk too. You don’t want to save Tesla as long as the fascist Musk profits from it. Let all his companies fail.
Also don’t promise stuff you just can’t deliver on. Like how a Tesla would be full self driving in 2014 but next year, or that amazing truck that would be the end game for every company moving stuff, or the new roadster from 2017
He hasn’t shot any migrants from his window in the morning. Maybe shoot migrants from your window? I don’t known, that’s the part I remember most about Schindler’s list.
That could boost sales right?
Maybe you could just make like a tree and leave?
I’m sure Tesla gets an exemption from those battery cell tariffs.
How much that affects product price and influences consumers and the stock price is another question.
Step down from Doge, open the files and lay bare this administration.
Offer to buyback every single Cybertruck.
Appoint a board of directors elected by Tesla employees, with representatives from each department to manage the long term goals and policy of Tesla.
Make a low cost, highly configurable electric car. Essentially an electric 90’s Civic.
Or better yet. Pay me 500 million a year and I’ll do all of this for you.
He bought it. He can save it by selling it and all the stock he has in it. The faster he fades into obscurity the better off humanity will be.
There is one very easy way to save Telsa. Musk needs leave and divest. The company can’t have anything to do with him anymore.
Well that’s guaranteed bankruptcy.
He owns 20% of an extremely overvalued meme stock (market capitalization of Tesla = almost all top 10 car manufacturers COMBINED), if he dumps them, then everyone will get margin called
And any other CEO would not be able to pump the meme stock telling the “self driving in 6 month” lie for years and years without being indicted for stock manipulation
without being indicted for stock manipulation
The SEC is dead and he has presidential pocket pardons.
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?
Better CEO choice than Elon Musk.
If he were to divest/step down people would stop hating the company.
The board has condoned both him and his antics, and you’ll never be able to trust a replacement board. The company is irredeemable.
Elon was never the guy who made Tesla work. He’s just a rich guy who bought it and then had to be insulated from running it because his ideas suck.
The insulation had to happen with spacex and paypal too btw… This guy is not really good.
IIRC one of the big issues with Twitter was it didn’t have anything set up to insulate the business from Musk’s idiot whims.
He’s gonna sell Teslas… ON MARS! Definitely start in 5 years. Space-X will launch them!
Bezos car company is a lot more practical. I just wish it wasn’t bezos.
He also threw a bunch of money into Rivian. He’s basically investing in companies that can make a a delivery truck that is cheaper to run and maintain.
I’m really interested in Aptera if they can get it to production. It’s probably more of a nitche vehicle, but I could see it fitting the needs of a lot of people.
They’re so close 😭 I’ve been watching every update video they’ve posted, I can’t wait
Also, it’s niche*
I prefer a nitche vehicle. More pragmatic.
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.
