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Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In (www.bloomberg.com)

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Tesla Gets a $94 Billion Reality Check as EV Winter Sets In::Tesla Inc. had a blockbuster 2023, as its shares more than doubled in 12 months. But 2024 is starting on a different note, with Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker off to its worst start to any year — ever.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The thing a lot of people are still ignoring is Tesla isn't just a car company.

Tesla is going to be more like General Electric than any of the traditional automakers and it'll be more and more obvious as the years go on.

They design and build their own batteries. They are about to refine their own lithium. They are designing their own super computers. They sell batteries to consumer and commercial companies with software managed by AI to optimize the usage of those batteries.

They are going to keep coming out with other non car products, such as a residential HVAC system.

And they're doing all this with industry leading margins on everything they do even after all the cuts.

They're way more resistant to problems than some specific car brand that went under. Even if the car side of things falters, they still have everything else to help prop them up.

I don't think anything is guaranteed one way or another, but Tesla is in a much better spot to survive longer term because of all the ways they can use their expertise.

I know most people don't believe the Bot will amount to anything, and maybe they are right, but the very fact they are doing something like that is diversifying the risk they put into their AI division. Now it's not just 1 failure point, they've found another way to benefit from their work.

Edit: and how could I forget the charging network. The whole car business itself could collapse and that's a massive business of its own