Tesla Financial Viability
Comments debate Tesla's profitability, heavy losses per vehicle, reliance on government subsidies and regulatory credits sold to other automakers, substantial debt, and risks of bankruptcy or acquisition.
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The idea of Tesla as a non subsidized company is wild.
Sure Tesla can make good cars, but not if it has to sell them at a profit. Over the lifetime of Tesla, each car has been subsidized by like 10k from shareholders and 7.5k from government. Both subsidies are going away as we speak.
Tesla has burned through more money than all of them combined.
How can this product be economically viable for Tesla?
Maybe they are financing through Tesla. Seems reasonable.
If Tesla runs out of money, does it just mean they will be acquired by another car company, or something else?
A lot of (early?) Tesla revenue was other auto makers forced to buy credits from them
Does this just go into Tesla's profits?
To stave off a Tesla bankruptcy for another 2 weeks or so?
4-year-old article already proven wrong. Tesla as a company is healthy and making a profit, battery prices coming down rapidly.