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by belltaco 1293 days ago
He says:

>Here's the thing about @tesla It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits.

So the so called real product makes 2.7% of the revenue, but actually selling the cars to customers makes them 97% of the revenue, but somehow it's not a car company but an emissions credits company? What?

If the credits disappeared tomorrow, only 10% of the profit would be lost. If it were an emissions credit company it'd take heavy losses and shutdown.