It kinda funny that Tesla's delays in ramping up production of is first mass produced car results in predictions of total doom. Despite Tesla having large amounts of cash on hand. Despite that every other manufacturer of complex and expensive products has routinely had similar problems.<p>Tip: Never take business advice from a journalist.
This is clickbait at its finest. No attributable sources and except for a pretty honest admission by Tesla which then leads to nothing but rampant speculation and claims.<p>Tesla will be fine. They have something like a 90+% satisfaction rate amongst current owners. People stood in line for hours to give them money for a car that didn't even have a production date. These people want a Tesla no matter when or how they get it. They're fine waiting and will continue to wait. Predicting the entire failure of the company on something like this is just silly.
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy Ryan Felton was being paid to write negative pieces against Tesla and Uber. Go look through his articles and you'll see nothing but doom and gloom about electric cars, autonomous cars, uber, etc.<p>Most of his claims are backed up by "anonymous former employees" or "unnamed people familiar with the matter"<p>Tesla will be just fine.
That's not why its future is threatened.<p>1. It's low oil/gas/energy prices and the fact that it looks like we are in for a low energy price environment for a decade or two.<p>2. Tesla, just their sister company solar city was built entirely on government subsidies. Those look to be going away.<p>3. They are hemorrhaging money.<p>Tesla is this decades Prius on steroids. Except that tesla doesn't have toyota's best selling sedans, tacoma trucks or their luxury lexus buttressing their foray into clean cars.<p>Remember when everyone thought that prius would take over the world?
A lot of criticism over this aritcle's credibility in this thread. So here's a more reputable source with a similar take:<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/model-3-hell-is-burning-tesla-s-other-projects" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/model-3-h...</a>