Liam Denning, Columnist

Taking Elon Musk Seriously, Not Literally

He keeps getting leeway to burn cash and blow off targets.

February 23, 2017 at 12:07 AM 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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It is fortunate for Elon Musk that investors in Tesla take him seriously but not literally.

Wednesday evening's fourth-quarter results from Tesla Inc. were even more hotly anticipated than usual. These were the first set to include recently-acquired SolarCity Corp. and come at the start of a year when Tesla is due to start producing the all-important Model 3.