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The Tesla Short Thesis Just Collapsed — CNN, CNBC, Forbes, & Business Insider Are Still…

7 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

We’ve covered the wild world of Tesla short sellers for a while. When the most shorted company on the stock market is a major cleantech company, CleanTechnica just has to dig into this stuff. To much better understand what short sellers are, who shorts Tesla, what the Tesla short theses have been (yes, they change from time to time), and why we’ve largely thought that shorting Tesla is idiotic, check out the 11 stories linked at the bottom of this article.

The War On Tesla By “Click Reporters” Reaches A New Low

7 years ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

With the advent of the internet came a new type of information gathering we’ll call the click-reporter. This new breed lives by provocative headlines that bring in clicks from the mouse or touchpad of internet viewers, and it’s those clicks that bring in the ad revenue. Get the scoop, create the enticing headline and some text to support it, and you’re golden. Elon Musk’s reaction to such reporting has really stirred this month.

Business Insider Resorts To FUD As Tesla Streamlines Model 3 General Assembly Lines — #Pravduh

7 years ago Kyle Field 0 Comments

From the same team that brought you the unsubstantiated hype about Tesla’s demise… From the creators of the overblown stories of each and every Tesla that ever caught on fire, may have caught on fire, looked like it could have caught on fire or was potentially, allegedly parked in a location where the sunshine could, on at least one planet in the universe, result in a fire… We bring you a story from Business Insider that frames up Tesla as a terrible company because it ditched the “brake and roll” test for the Model 3.