They make and sell cars, they are a car company. Their added value might be some software but what you are saying is akin to calling WeWork a tech company. No, it's a real estate company.
Software has eaten the world, it's not because there's software as part of the product offering that it makes it a software company... Without selling cars Tesla would have nothing (and no, the power business wouldn't exist without the cars).
Software has eaten the world, it's not because there's software as part of the product offering that it makes it a software company... Without selling cars Tesla would have nothing (and no, the power business wouldn't exist without the cars).