>Tesla does not spend money with advertisers, so "automotive news agencies" are always going to print articles like to to try to keep the money coming in.
Tesla doesn't spend money with traditional advertisers. They have a marketing budget, you can see it in their financials.
>Tesla is the only [non Chinese] company to get massive mining contracts
What "massive" mining contracts do they have?
>which is as many as they can buy batteries from their supplier for.
Tesla buys batteries from third parties like everyone else.
>Ford/GM/Stalantis are dead and are going through the motions to get as many CEO paychecks and stock pricing going as possible until the next bailout. Rinse Repeat.
Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention?
> Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention?
I see what you did there: comparing Hyundai's current numbers to Tesla's numbers from ten years ago (when they were a startup). I'm sure you could make a similar argument to make it sound like Barns and Nobels was beating the paints off Amazon.
For a more realistic comparison, Hyundai sold ~50K EVs in Q1 2022, and Tesla sold ~300K in the same period.
Tesla does massive conferences and reveal events. Not to mention, a significant chunk of Musk's personal and professional time is spent marketing Tesla (on Twitter or on media) to the levels rarely seen of CEOs - given his paycheck, that is a significant amount of marketing $.
Tesla doesn't spend money with traditional advertisers. They have a marketing budget, you can see it in their financials.
>Tesla is the only [non Chinese] company to get massive mining contracts
What "massive" mining contracts do they have?
>which is as many as they can buy batteries from their supplier for.
Tesla buys batteries from third parties like everyone else.
>Ford/GM/Stalantis are dead and are going through the motions to get as many CEO paychecks and stock pricing going as possible until the next bailout. Rinse Repeat.
Hyundai sold as many EVs last year as Tesla did in their first decade. Are you even paying attention?