The past couple of months that electric automaker Tesla has endured would be considered humbling by just about any other Fortune 500 company. But, to its CEO, Elon Musk, it seems to have only spurred him to get even more aggressive.
First we saw the public relations team directly attack a writer in the auto space, Edward Niedermeyer, and now the company’s dealing with a lot of investigations by an alphabet soup of government organizations.
Rather than dialing it back a bit and buckling in for what may prove to be a bumpy ride though, Musk announced this week that he’s working on the second act of his masterplan. His tweet reads:
Considering it is the automotive industry’s hottest automaker for a variety of reasons, this got the speculative traders riled up. Shares of TSLA had a nice bump on Monday. Today, the equity didn’t do much of anything.
This has left me wondering: Is this merely a not-so-elaborate ruse meant to distract the public — and, more importantly, short sellers — as to what’s really potentially around the corner for Musk’s car company? What say you, Spies?