[theragra]

Not if Elon decides to leave Tesla. In this case, this was a catastrophic failure.

[pavlov]

It might be better for Tesla shareholders than the past two years when he’s been essentially absent, but nobody else can step in to make decisions. The company is clearly behind in core product development and spent way too much time on Musk’s stale old follies like the Cybertruck.

[smcl]

Oh damn yeah, then they might miss out on Cybertruck 2.0

[f38zf5vdt]

Elon leaving Tesla would be the one thing _to_ make me invest. The company has fantastic growth potential being squandered by Musk on useless products like the Cybertruck.

[AlchemistCamp]

And how have your investment returns over the past 15 years stacked up against someone with all their savings invested in Tesla?

[isodev]

Elon leaves Tesla:

- Tesla finally settles with unions and starts treating their employees fairly.

- Tesla addresses the water pollution of their Gigafactories in Europe.

- Tesla signs that collective bargaining agreement in Sweden so they can finally sell cars there (and have their charging stations unblocked).

- Tesla adapts their marketing to stop claiming auto-pilot bs.

- Tesla adapts their quality control so Tesla cars are no longer delivered to customers in a semi-assembled state.

- Tesla starts investing in research for more sustainable disposal of batteries and alternative means of energy storage

I can see a lot of upsides to Musk leaving Tesla (on top of the $50B)

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

It looks great on paper, but isn't their core customer going to drop them without elon?

[Zigurd]

Tesla's core customer is a person buying a fairly spartan EV sedan or crossover. That's not going to change until the current rate of Cybertruck production and pre-order delivery acceptance changes.

[rhelz]

chuckke nobody buys a car because they feel like giving a billionaire money.

I mean, if you can afford to spend $100k just to simp for Elon Musk, god bless you, but the rest of us want $100k of value when we pay $100k for a car.