[Clent]

I found that interesting as well. The article is trying to link solar panel failures to Tesla vehicle failures. They were not born from the same company nor process.

It seems whatever generated the story was looking for some segue into how the price is down.

The stock price was affected by the market's new knowledge. They both contain words for fire but are otherwise independent and distant events in Tesla's history.

A more likely scenario is these liabilities that Tesla acquired a couple of years ago had otherwise gone unnoticed. They have now been noticed and the market will risk the outcome of Walmart and all of these other Solar City contracts.

The potential risk of these contracts is what is weighing on Telsa's stock price, not a handful of vehicle fires.

[gamblor956]

It was originally SolarCity that did the work, but SolarCity was acquired by and merged into Tesla.

The surviving entity was Tesla, so Walmart sued Tesla.

(SolarCity's debts actually represent the majority part of Tesla's debt load and is part of why Tesla has been struggling financially despite 19%+ margin on each car sold.)

[elcritch]

Is there a good place to find those numbers? We always hear about Tesla debt but not the distinction of solar city debt.

[gamblor956]

Their SEC filings. In a nutshell, the overwhelming majority of Tesla's debt is Solar City's debt.

[gcbw3]

My friends at SolarCity never had to work 70h in a week before Tesla acquired them (nor work weekends installing solar panels on Musk mansion in L.A.)

So it might very well be the result of the same company and processes.

[CrazyStat]

So your friend had better working conditions during the same time period this work was done (before the acquisition)?

[gcbw3]

infinitely better, yes. They had more time out of work, no nights or weekends, and since the acquisition, the layoffs cut the team in 1/3.

[nothrabannosir]

Honestly with all the Tesla shorts trolling HN, an unsubstantiated comment like this from a fresh account is very suspicious. Can you post from an account with more comment history?

[dang]

This comment breaks the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[briandear]

Nobody is moving markets with a HN comment. Suggesting astroturfing is against the site guidelines anyway.

[dehrmann]

> They were not born from the same company nor process

But their founders are cousins.