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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 minutes ago

one thing to consider is that tesla does not make its money by selling cars, but by selling carbon credits to other companies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 35 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 31 minutes ago

You can't un-ring being a Nazi and I won't be buying another Tesla with or without a Nazi at the helm because we all know even if he 'steps down' his fortune will still be tied to his stock ownership.

Nazi Around, Find Out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

We hadn't heard much from him over the past few weeks, and now we get this earnings call, and it is far worse than expected. He's known this was coming, and has been laying low, probably hoping things will improve some before making what he knows would be a disastrous earnings call. Its the equivalent of watching your diet 3 days before a doctor's appointment, hoping your weight gain and cholesterol increase won't be as bad as you know it is.

Also, it's a safe bet that his board of directors is livid, and that he has been ordered by his board to get back to work, or be removed as CEO of Tesla.

There is almost certainly a shareholder class-action suit brewing over his reckless and irresponsible behavior over the last several months, which has directly caused severe, and probably irreparable damage to the company's brand image AND it's sales around the world, as well as tanking the stock price, an unforgiveable sin in the investing world. Now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. As future earnings reports are released, and sales continue to slide, the stock will continue to decline, and the cycle will continue until bankruptcy. And it is all traceable to Skum's self-indulgent, egotistical behavior.

The only question is will Skum be the only defendant, or will the lawsuit also name the individual members of the board, for not reigning him in, or firing him. They don't want to be sued alongside him, so they are forcing him to get back to work saving Tesla, thus letting them off the hook for legal liability.

Its doubtful Skum will be able to save Tesla at this point, its almost certainly too late. It is also probably too late to avoid a shareholder lawsuit. Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum's outrageous behavior, like throwing up celebratory Nazi salutes on national TV, which, as CEO, he should have realized would damage his company and its investors significantly.

And arguing that he didn't recognize the danger in advance is no excuse at all for a CEO, who should have been able to predict the response to his self-indulgent ego bender.

Shareholders have lost many millions, and they won't just let that go with an "Oh well." He's likely going to get sued, and the board is just making sure they don't go down with him.

I give Tesla two years before they file for bankruptcy, and I'm only giving it that long because HitlerPig will give him a bail out that will buy him a little time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

Ketamine does cause brain rot

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Tesla cannot be saved until and unless Musk sells his share of the company and completely divorces himself from it. Even that may not be enough, as the brand is so closely associated with Musk that his stain may not wash off, but it's their only chance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It will, it just takes a lot of years. Lets not forget that Hugo Boss and Volkswagen were nazi germany companies.

They’re still quite popular even though one made military uniforms and the other vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago

And that can really only begin with his departure from the company. And his divestment.

A lot of people are going after Tesla because he owns a shit load of it and we want to bury him- not because we particularly care about Tesla.

Once he’s gone from the company, then they can rebuild, it eh…. He has to leave first.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago

Even if one of his ideas were to apologize for the nazi salute I think the "saving Tesla" ship has sailed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Has he tried stop being a cunt?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

If by "being a cunt", you mean "breathing": we can only hope.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Narcissistic personality disorder would never allow such a thing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Fucked his cousin in a ditch and noshed a grenade, IIRC?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The last idea he had for Tesla was by shitting out the cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

All he had to do was shut his fucking mouth. Tesla sells a competitively-price product and has a strong moat with their charging network. He is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, all because he doesn't know how to STFU.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Why would you give Musk any useful advice?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Did he try to carry a sink into Tesla?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

What a fucking loser

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But he looked cool wearing the cheese head before he fucked up his attempt to corrupt the Wisconsin judiciary, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

He had to emphasize on the Roman salute twice

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

The first disassembly line to recover the materials from the swastidumpter. Ha ha!

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 96 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Has he considered resigning?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Exactly. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Reinstate Eberhard and Tarpenning.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Better CEO choice than Elon Musk.

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