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Originally Posted by The North One
Irrelevant. Whether they're specifically for Tesla or not, they're still getting them and making their profits from it.
This is another meaningless technically. If anything works against your original comment, since you failed to account for all subsidies.
They're all real numbers for Tesla's latest quarter. Doesn't get more objective than that.
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They are not real numbers. I posted the real numbers already. Tesla is profitable, and has been profitable for years by the way. At least as profitable as any other car company that is posting positive net income. Practically every business benefits from some type of government program. GM and Ford and BMW and WV benefit too as practically all auto manufacturers now have an EV line.
Tesla does not see that money from the credit, consumer does. It is not part of Tesla's revenue. The money does not go to Tesla.
Do you think school budgets go up when child tax credit increases? Yes, it is an incentive to have more kids, but it is not a direct $$ on the books, like the carbon credits are. It is very hard to quantify how much demand is incentivized by the EV tax credit to the consumers. Clearly there is some benefit though, but I suspect Tesla would be profitable even if EV tax credit went away.