Musk never left "full speed ahead" mode. He gets bored if he can't run multiple companies at once and that will never change. It's only the media narrative, unsupported by facts, that Elon wasn't constantly guiding Tesla, that he was absent. Their narrative will always be more negative than actual reality.
The fact that the CEO sold a huge number of shares to buy another company didn't help.
You list four things you claim impacted Tesla's business. All of them happened before Tesla became the company with the best-selling car in the world in 2023. And, oddly, it was not a gas car, for the first time ever, it was an electric car, a kind of car the media has been trying to convince us is too expensive to ever sell at high volume.
I have read enough of your posts. There's a reason some members here have you blocked.
Some people can't handle reality or logic.
Tesla has always combined S&X and 3&Y sales, to meet disclosure requirements of Public companies, long before the Model Y became the best-selling car in the world. Combining the two models had zero to do with what you are attempting to imply. Auto industry data and analytics firms have confirmed that Model Y was the best-selling globally last year. Why do you think it was not?
Sigh...it looks like we have a TSLAQ in the crowd. Were you more surprised that Tesla didn't suffer the bankruptcy that was certain, or that they now hold the title of manufacturing the best-selling car in the world? Tesla has been solidly profitable every year since 2020, FYI. Tesla puts more experienced legacy automakers to shame, when it comes to profits and margins. It's because they are very efficient at manufacturing high-quality cars that have much lower than average warranty expenses per car. Pollution credits are a very small part of their profits. The fact that you don't know this by now is essentially proof that you don't want to know. Some people will only believe what they want to believe.
The Model Y is the best-selling car globally, cherry-picking credits from a city or single U.S. state can't get you to where you want to go. Just admit it, there is only one company that can hold the title of Best Selling Car in the World and it's currently Tesla.
I own a F-150 purchased new and, believe me, you don't want to own one. The Cybertruck puts it to shame. The F-150 has been selling for nearly half a century, and it sells poorly outside of North America. It has never been a global best-seller like the Model Y.
...It's basically the equivalent of lumping Rivian's sales to Amaon in with their R1T sales. Ford, at least to their credit, only lumps their bare-back cabs with the F-series, but you end up with the F-series of Theseus by the time you get from F-150 to F-750. They don't share anything at that point except maybe the steering wheel.
This is obviously false. The fact that the company was able to produce and sell a vehicle even with an at best distracted CEO and at worst a CEO actively damaging the company does not negate the very real negative impact of Elon's actions which are clear to all but a few extremists who constantly deny reality. Luckily the product was good enough to sell in spite of the CEO. Plus as I've repeatedly pointed out sales may have been even better with a more focused and less unhinged CEO at the helm, you know like the one we used to have. Remember him? I do.
Everyone has weaknesses, yes even Elon. He completely screwed up by buying Twitter as even he realized. Remember when he tried to back out of buying it? He's also made bad decisions at Tesla over the years but luckily for the most part the good decisions outweighed those, at least until recent years.
No, you are talking nonsense when you claim Elon is "unhinged" or not focused.
Elon realized he overpaid when he bought Twitter, due to the timing, not that he shouldn't have bought it at all. He still believes it's important for the future of democracy to have a platform that isn't heavily censored by the government (and that is exactly what was happening before he bought it).
