But is there any reason to think it would have happened this fast (or at all) if not for his behavior/persona?
Isn’t the new model Y out? Shouldn’t that boost things? Sales are reportedly tanking all over the globe.
This isn’t a market correction where the price adjusts despite reasonable fundamentals. Something has gone seriously wrong and is seriously effecting things.
No, this is all your assumption lol. Sales are "tanking" due to the model Y rollout, which was best selling car in the world last 2 years at roughly double the cost of the 2nd best selling car.
I’ve seen other people say that and frankly I’m skeptical. Tesla is firmly past the “techie only“ crowd.
I suspect the majority of their sales are the kind of “normal“ people who aren’t looking to wait for the next refresh and just want to buy a car right now cause they need one.
Are some people waiting for the refresh to be available to them? Sure. Enough to take sales everywhere? I seriously doubt it. I suspect the vast majority of their buyers wouldn’t even know a refresh was coming.
But we’ll find out pretty fast won’t we. If sales pick up back to normal pretty quickly then maybe you’re right.
But if they keep slumping further and further then the refresh argument will start to lose a lot of credibility.
Isn’t the new model Y out? Shouldn’t that boost things? Sales are reportedly tanking all over the globe.
This isn’t a market correction where the price adjusts despite reasonable fundamentals. Something has gone seriously wrong and is seriously effecting things.
And we all know who that something is.