https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-tesla-factory-california-texas-car-production/

A 120-Year-Old Company Is Leaving Tesla in the Dust
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/opinion/ford-tesla-bluecruise-self-driving-remote-work.html

QuoteTesla had me convinced, for a while, that it was a cool company... But the more I dealt with Tesla as a reporter — this was before Mr. Musk fired all the P.R. people who worked there — the more skeptical I became. Any time I spoke to anyone at Tesla, there was a sense that they were terrified to say the wrong thing, or anything at all.

Then he talks about how he couldn't even get anyone at Tesla to tell him how many horsepower the Model 3 he was testing had.

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That was back in 2017. In the years since, Tesla's become even crankier, while its competition has loosened up. Public perception hasn't yet caught up with the reality of the situation. If you want to work for a flexible, modern company, you don't apply to Tesla. You apply to 120-year-old Ford.

Tesla's veneer of irreverence conceals an inflexible core, an old-fashioned corporate autocracy.

QuoteI just bought a Jeep and I have no idea who the C.E.O. is there. That's cool with me.

I think that Tesla is like Apple and it will go through a moment, may currently be at the start of a moment, when only hardcore fans think it makes the best product for the price and no amount of comparison or review will dissuade them. The question is whether or not Elon will come back from eventual exile as Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer (who oversaw a decline in MS market cap while peer companies doubled and tripled in value, earning him the title of "worst CEO" by Seth Godin).

My gut says Tesla could be saved, but it needs a CEO who spends his/her time fixing Tesla's issues instead of retweeting alt-right memes all day on Twitter.  There are real problems and PR disasters that need attention.  On top of that Elon is exactly the wrong person to head a company who's customers are left-leaning, upper middle class and environmentally conscious.