Liam Denning, Columnist

Tesla's Talk Isn't Cheap

The company has ramped up its promises and cash needs.

May 4, 2016 at 10:54 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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As any Republican will tell you, 2016 is the year of the superlative.

A day after that message was hammered home to the GOP, Tesla Motors' Elon Musk amped up his message to the masses. On Wednesday evening's quarterly results call, he declared that Tesla is: