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Comment by TheOtherHobbes

Tesla spent almost years scraping by, almost went bankrupt in 2018, had three years of "exceeds expectation" from 2020 to 2023 and is now being murdered by competitors.

A lot of "income" comes from selling regulatory credits, not cars.

FSD is up to v14 and there is no sense in which it's "Full", or is likely to be "Full" any time soon.

The early computer industry created a good few companies which achieved profitability quickly and posted solid YoY expansion for decades.

The histories of SpaceX and Tesla show no evidence of that pattern.

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