Is Tesla Actually DOOMED? YES and NO, At Least According To One Writer...

Tesla completely transformed the automotive landscape when it introduced the Roadster, pioneering the mass-market electric car. It sold the first widely-available EV, and it did it with a product that you could easily live with every day. The company has done more to further the electric game than anyone else and deserves total credit for making EVs a part of the discussion when it comes to the future of the automobile. Tesla has changed the world. It’s also doomed...

...The only way to be successful at car manufacturing is to do it at a very large scale. You have to sell hundreds of thousands, if not millions of cars per year to be stable. In 2018, Tesla shifted a total of 245,240 cars. The Model 3 also became the best-selling luxury automobile in United States; last year was fantastic for Tesla. It also took the company to the very brink of imploding...

CactoesGe1 - 6/1/2019 3:43:40 PM

+3 Boost

Competition benefits consumers. I want Tesla to prosper.

MDarringer - 6/2/2019 7:28:14 PM

+1 Boost

Tesla does not have the capacity to compete long term.

malba2367 - 6/1/2019 4:03:25 PM

+1 Boost

Tesla will live on owned by another company, and without the involvement of Elon Musk. My prediction of a buyer in descending order of likelihood:

1. Toyota
2. Daimler
3. Ford/VW alliance
4. FCA/Renault/Nissan alliance
3. Chinese automaker - very unlikely in the near future due to politics

mre30 - 6/1/2019 5:13:02 PM

-1 Boost

Prediction -
When Tesla either withers and starts to exist in a half-dead state (like Blackberry did) or else files Chapter 11 altogether, there will be no bidders.

Along will come the US government (probably a democratic one by then) and there will be "loan guarantees" such that GM or Ford will be "forced" to absorb Tesla to keep this "vanguard of American engineering" going. There will be whole groups of politicians who will see lots of PR benefit for themselves in 'rescuing' a completely insolvent and nonviable Tesla.

All bets are off, however, if Musk gets caught by the FBI selling COKE (ala John Z DeLorean).

The bankruptcy carcass of Tesla will not be worth anything.

skytop - 6/1/2019 7:00:12 PM

+1 Boost

Question: What is the difference between a Tesla and a gas BBQ grille.
Answer: very little.

MDarringer - 6/1/2019 9:10:15 PM

0 Boost

Tesla needs to lose Elon Musk and retail its cars in conventional dealers which would INCREASE sales.

jtz7 - 6/1/2019 10:36:02 PM

+2 Boost

Whata wrong with Tesla? Am Imkissing something?

malba2367 - 6/2/2019 12:25:18 AM

0 Boost

At 10-15 billion valuation Tesla there will be interest from other automakers. The wild card will be whether or not Elon is willing to give up control because no established automaker will want the distraction of having him around.

TomM - 6/2/2019 7:19:07 PM

+2 Boost

The problem is - too many of the existing manufacturers have now already spent their money for platform development - and every day that passes reduces the value of existing product on OLD platforms.

MDarringer - 6/2/2019 7:29:58 PM

0 Boost

Valuation is NOT what it will sell for and is nothing more than a pie in the sky brag about how much the company might be worth. Tesla could probably be had for 1-2 Billion.

TomM - 6/2/2019 7:16:21 PM

+2 Boost

Tesla was ALways doomed - right from the beginning.

A start up - with an unorthodox sales/service model(complete monopoly) - that does not provide access to repair computer links - depended tooo much on exclusivity for its profitability. Being the ONLY source of what they wanted to be Mass Market Product - with SET pricing across the country - and no sanctioned price movement - along with Few real sales outlets - could only work only when there was little competition - as a monopoly.

AS soon as the market has a few producers - going through local dealers with greater access to customers - and competition - the Tesla Model would ultimately fail