This: "Mercedes actually just put out a press release that said they can't build enough electric cars because they can't build enough batteries, because Tesla acquired the company they were going to use in 2016. "

Here's the original (in german)

https://teslamag.de/news/betriebsrat-tesla-ist-mitschuld-an-...

And translated

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/euob34/the_cri...

That's not a press release from Mercedes, and given that Mercedes denied the core allegation that production would be halved this year, I would probably give them the benefit of the doubt on the rest...