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They lost about 1.5x the value of Volkswagen today (so far). Crazy how (over)valued this company was/is.



Tesla has been the most heavily subsidized automaker in the US. Biden's historic investments in EV subsidies only increased that. It was leading the EV industry and it seemed impossible for it to fail even with the safety scandals that plagued it for nearly a decade

It's truly incredible that someone could fuck up such a favorable position


> most heavily subsidized automaker

The federal government literally purchased all of GM & Chrysler in 2009.


Tesla has also received $466,500,000 in bailouts. But bailouts are NOT the same thing as subsidies

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc


The enterprise value of VW is 200B. Tesla is down ~100B today.


I was referring to market cap.


Publicly traded equity is only part of the value of a company though, especially when you are talking about a company that might have significant capital assets.




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