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Re:Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:41PM (#16702242)
> There is so much demand for their cars that they cannot make enough of them.

You mean, because they have priced them below the price that would clear their ability to produce, and have either inadequate resources or inadequate competence to scale production to meet the quantity demanded at the current price. So, they are failing at either production or pricing or both, and losing money because of it.

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Re:Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall by paulpauper on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:16PM (#16702520)
The losses are due to the capital outlays for factories, bot because the car business is unprofitable. Tesla has 20% margins on their sales, which is twice that of GM and Ford.
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Re:Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall by jonknee on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:13PM (#16702938)
GM and Ford happen to make (lots of) money even after they pay for the cost of building/selling/supporting their products. That said, Tesla's gross margin in the latest quarter was 13.34%[1], GM's was 13.29%[2] and Ford led the pack at 15.34%[3].

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/gross_profit_margin

[2] https://ycharts.com/companies/GM/gross_profit_margin

[3] https://ycharts.com/companies/F/gross_profit_margin

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Re:Tesla Bonds Are in Free Fall by AstralStorm on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:40AM (#16705937)
The real question is, would Teslas still sell well enough at a higher margin...
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