cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60050040
Considering the pickup EV has been an enormous commercial flop, only selling barely a fraction of Musk’s promised 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks a year, there’s a good chance Tesla is using the mercurial CEO’s other venture to boost the numbers ahead of the end of an otherwise disastrous year.
They do, for specifically the missions they’re fulfilling as a government contractor. This is just Elon effectively buying them from himself, moving inventory from the public company where he has accountability to his private company where he has none.