Don’t worry about St. Elon....the tech industry, Wall Street and green politicians will not let him take a loss on Tesla.
Apple may swoop in and buy it. Maybe Google. Probably another car company will buy it up.
St. Elon may sell the assets but keep the IP....licensing it to multiple car manufacturers.
The auto industry is already poised to introduce massive hybridization. Those that go all electric will only sell to city dwellers. Those that go plug-in hybrid (battery and ICE) will do better.
By St. Elon will come out on top and be called the pioneer of the electric car.
FCA will keep TSLA alive for now because they are using the TSLA fleet to average against their own sales to reduce EU carbon emission fines.
Munro & Associates analysis of the model 3 was that it was uncompetitive crap except for the electric motor.
When TSLA finally fails FCA will be able to pick the bones and keep anything useful for pennies on the dollar, compared to the billions that the other manuf have “invested” in electric cars no-one wants except gov’t.