It certainly was interesting to see reactions to Tesla's announcement of last quarter's production and sales numbers. They had the best production numbers yet, thanks to massively accelerated production in the last few weeks of the quarter. But that meant that many cars were in still in transit at the end of the quarter, which don't count as sales yet, even though they pretty much all had a customer's name on them. Thus sales were down for the quarter, and even though it's obvious that this was just because of when the end of the quarter happened to be, the press was full of "Tesla sales are down, they're so doomed" stories.
I can never decide whether the people who write these stories can't be bothered to do even the most minimal digging past the first number they see, or if they're doing this on purpose. Probably a mix, I guess.
I can never decide whether the people who write these stories can't be bothered to do even the most minimal digging past the first number they see, or if they're doing this on purpose. Probably a mix, I guess.