Bob Lutz, car-guy-to-the-max, former VP of GM and Chrysler, with time at BMW before that, wrote this recent article --
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26859/bob-lutz-tesla/
The opening paragraph is gloomy:
Tesla's showing all the signs of a company in trouble: bleeding cash, securitized assets, and mounting inventory. It's the trifecta of doom for any automaker, and anyone paying attention probably saw this coming a mile away. Like most big puzzles, the company's woes don't have just one source.
and the prognosis goes downhill from there mentioning competition from Audi, the lack of enough dealers to attract more buyers and other problems.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Hyperturtle on Friday October 30 2015, @04:19PM
Yes, it sounds like listening to the Heartland Institute complain that a solar plant using 5% natural gas for energy use during non-peak periods to smooth the load is a terrible carbon polluter so stop all solar and use oil and coal, proven technologies with thorough research on helping you and your family of four vote against government corruption and invest the fossil fuel industry.
Any competitor to established norms are corrupt and Evil.