Does Elon Musk's Latest Move Mean Tesla Is Doomed?

Motley Fool2022-06-30

KEY POINTSOn Tuesday, Tesla reportedly laid off more than 200 people working on its Autopilot software and shuttered a facility in California.Musk has called full-self driving essential to Tesla's ...

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romanc9
2022-06-30
romanc9
If it is required to cut workforce to reduce cost for the time being and the CEO said so means it is necessary. Not that he stop the project. Maybe the cut are to cut those getting redundant.. His foresight is quite sharp had to take my hat for him.
CIG
2022-06-30
CIG
Buying 1 share of Tesla or USD 700 of Bitcoin, which one will hit USD 3000 first?
Jason_LSE
2022-06-30
Jason_LSE
Musk is no doubt a genius. As long as he stay focus and not get distracted by the nonsensical stunts, Tesla & Space X ..etc.. will do well.
Remotecam
2022-06-30
Remotecam
Elon's job as CEO is not to be liked or loved. It's calculating all the inputs and making sure the output is able to pay for it. Unless the giga cash burning factories start turning around to at least break even, Tesla indeed can run into a wall very quickly. Especially if recession hit customers in Europe, US and China stop buying cars. His genius brain has calculated all the odds and it's not looking good.
Sravan588
2022-06-30
Sravan588
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小虎一飞冲天
2022-06-30
小虎一飞冲天
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As long as he stay focus and not get distracted by the nonsensical stunts, Tesla &amp; Space X ..etc..&nbsp;will do well.&nbsp;","listText":"Musk is no doubt a genius. As long as he stay focus and not get distracted by the nonsensical stunts, Tesla &amp; Space X ..etc..&nbsp;will do well.&nbsp;","text":"Musk is no doubt a genius. As long as he stay focus and not get distracted by the nonsensical stunts, Tesla & Space X ..etc.. will do well.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9045135092","repostId":2247932011,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9045343454,"gmtCreate":1656566452979,"gmtModify":1676535855553,"author":{"id":"4093854476996450","authorId":"4093854476996450","name":"Remotecam","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/f856a0a30bd0fa23a086fc678014e48b","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"4093854476996450","authorIdStr":"4093854476996450"},"htmlText":"Elon's job as CEO is not to be liked or loved.&nbsp; It's calculating all the inputs and making sure the output is able to pay for it.&nbsp;Unless the giga cash burning factories start turning around to at least break even, Tesla indeed can run into a wall very quickly. 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His genius brain has calculated all the odds and it's not looking good.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":2,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":18,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9045343454","repostId":2247932011,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9045343348,"gmtCreate":1656566397685,"gmtModify":1676535855537,"author":{"id":"4112498644363612","authorId":"4112498644363612","name":"Sravan588","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/1c7d788f6d515483e0af8a2cb2ce0a94","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4112498644363612","authorIdStr":"4112498644363612"},"htmlText":"K","listText":"K","text":"K","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9045343348","repostId":2247932011,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9045340025,"gmtCreate":1656566092568,"gmtModify":1676535855503,"author":{"id":"3582098623642517","authorId":"3582098623642517","name":"小虎一飞冲天","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1a55a61195830e019abf5d3cc69681b9","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582098623642517","authorIdStr":"3582098623642517"},"htmlText":"Like pls","listText":"Like pls","text":"Like pls","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9045340025","repostId":2247932011,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":159,"commentSize":19,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.3","shortVersion":"4.29.3","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2247932011"}