Yossarian meant private as in not government owned or government owned by proxy because it depends on government funds to remain afloat.
In that sense it is private. Of course I know publicly traded stock company. TSLA closed at $229 with a market cap of $28.45 Billion. I own a few shares myself.
Reaganez, you are being disingenuous.
- Tesla depended on a government loan, not private investment, to build their business (aka crony capitalism);
- Tesla gets huge taxpayer subsidies for their cars because they are supposedly environmentally good (when they aren’t) (aka crony capitalism); and
- Tesla actually makes their so-called “profits” off of carbon credit trading (aka crony capitalism).