Liam Denning, Columnist

This Is Why Tesla Should Answer Boring Questions

Nuggets in the carmaker’s 10-Q speak to some key issues.

May 7, 2018 at 3:27 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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Exhibit A as to why Elon Musk should find it within himself to endure the “boring, bonehead questions” of analysts: Tesla Inc.’s own quarterly filing with the SEC.

The report dropped Monday morning, five days after the earnings webcast in which CEO Musk cut off analysts for being all analyst-y about margins and spending and stuff. It had some interesting nuggets (if you find this sort of thing interesting, obviously).