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Re:Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; S... by matwood on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:40AM (#17934575)
> I don't think you realize how much FUD is disseminated daily in the mainstream media.

FUD is what people do to Apple when they are making money hand over fist every quarter. TSLA is just a terribly run company that may end up out of business. Which is sad, because they have what appears to be a good product. Their production arrogance may not be able to be overcome though.

This is also standard Musk to blame short-sellers for TSLAs financial and production woes. Please tell me how short-sellers impact TSLA's production floor? The short-seller problem fixes itself if TSLA ever delivers.

>And Tesla plan to produce more than 300K Model 3 next year, not 100K.

I'll be amazed if they hit that number. They had to pull out all of the stops to hit the last one.

Re:Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; S... by dmode on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:06AM (#17934808)
A company that went from selling 11 cars in 2011 to 200k cars in 2018 is poorly run ?
Re:Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; S... by dragontamer on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:30AM (#17935037)
A company that went from losing $49 million per quarter in 2011 to losing $742 million per quarter in Q2 2018 is poorly run.

Yes. That's pretty bad. Their growth is quite backwards, they've learned to lose more money over time.

http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...

http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9ec...

Re:Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; S... by dmode on Friday September 07, 2018 @07:51PM (#17938509)
Not sure what your point is. If you are growinig like crazy in a capital intense industry, you are bound to grow your loses. Tesla could have chosen to sell zero cars and have zero losses. What matters is demand and profitable unit economica (Tesla cars have healthy gross margins)
Re:Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; S... by dragontamer on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:03AM (#17939823)
Okay, well lets ignore CapEx then (~$600 Million). Yeah, lets get rid of it. Pretend that in Q2 2018 Tesla spent ziltch, nada, absolutely nothing, on expanding its factories or buying equipment.

EVEN IF WE IGNORE $600 Million worth of CapEx, Tesla is still $100 million loss. Again, Tesla lost a total of $742 million, and no, investments into equipment or building space does NOT fully explain the loss.

Re:Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; S... by matwood on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:49AM (#17941040)
TSLA is horribly run and managed. Another responder already mentioned the losses from TSLA itself, but I think the SolarCity bailout is proof enough.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2016/07/12/ba...