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Tesla Hikes Prices After the Government Cash Grinds to a Halt | Elon Musk built his empire on government help, including a tax credit that expired Tuesday.

chrisdh79 | 2025-10-02 12:47 | 383 views

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snowsayer 2025-10-02 12:53

$TSLA new ATH soon

newleafkratom 2025-10-02 13:02

And the stock goes up.

Secret-Revolution172 2025-10-02 13:09

This shiet stock keeps going up. So fkn stupid

ccie6861 2025-10-02 13:16

Deceptive headline. LEASE COST went up because the credit went away. The actual cost of the vehicle didnt change. The federal gift card just expired. Everyone else’s leases have/will jump also as will the financed amount for purchased vehicles. Nothing to see here but fud and spin.

Useful_Response9345 2025-10-02 13:26

And on pro-TSLA subs they're bragging like it's a good thing. lol

Matt_Foley_Motivates 2025-10-02 13:26

Elon net worth $1T incoming

noobgiraffe 2025-10-02 14:03

Honestly I was feeling a bit bad for people buying at those prices since there is no way it will hold long term. Then I opened twitter. It's like mental asylum in there. They are laughing and mocking everyone who suggested Tesla is overvalued. I changed my mind, they deserve what's coming.

obefiend 2025-10-02 14:07

Watch stock go up 10%

banditcleaner2 2025-10-02 15:09

TSLA, when tesla car sales are down: Tesla is not a car company. They're an AI and FSD/robotics company. Bullish! TSLA, when tesla car sales are up: Tesla is a car company with increasing sales! Bullish!

Pineapplepizzaracoon 2025-10-02 15:09

Probably mostly bots

banditcleaner2 2025-10-02 15:10

You can simply remind them that in the short term stocks are voting mechanisms, and in the long term they are weighing mechanisms. You could as a public company escape requirements for your fundamentals to be good for many, many years, maybe even as long as a decade. But, eventually, Mr. Market comes knocking and demanding your fundamentals match your share price, and you'd better hope you are not holding TSLA when that happens.

banditcleaner2 2025-10-02 15:13

most tesla buyers qualified for the federal ev credit which would give them back $7,500 for their purchase. If I purchase something for $42,500 and then get $7,500 back because of a credit that I qualified for with said purchase, what did I actually pay? I paid $35,000. Now tell someone that wants to buy one of these that today they must spend $42,500 because the credit that just yesterday allowed them to buy for $35,000 went away. Yeah tesla gets the same amount of money. Thats obvious, and not the point. The point is that many of the prospective buyers now have to pay substantially more, and some of them won't want to do that. So there will be a non-negligible decline in sales. Since the price is effectively raising from $35,000 to $42,500 (base model 3), a 20% increase in sales, lets assume 25% of that increase is the loss in sales. Or, 5%. The one thing you absolutely don't want to happen to a hyper-growth stock you're holding is for their sales to decline. A normal stock that is not a cult favorite would be down YTD at least 35% YTD, honestly really a hell of a lot more, but TSLA is a cult through and through.

Shootels 2025-10-02 15:15

I think 90% of people buy cars on what the monthly price is so I’m not so sure the headline is misleading.

banditcleaner2 2025-10-02 15:18

Supposedly its a good thing, for tesla, because why - because competitors can't compete as easily? Are TSLA retards aware that this can be a net negative for the entire EV industry (which it is), and therefore tesla as well? Imho best case scenario tesla is break even on sales. They'll lose some sales due to prices being higher, and perhaps they'll gain a small amount from competitors losing sales to them, but I don't think its a net win for tesla in the long term

Head 2025-10-02 16:03

I remember when it was a cult for doing the right thing for the planet. Too bad Elon shat the bed.

ATX_native 2025-10-02 16:08

It’s just trading at 256 years of its current earnings, you just need to believe. /s Seriously, pointing out the sky high valuations and people literally say they tune you out because you don’t understand.

punktualPorcupine 2025-10-02 16:17

In 2010 the US government loaned Tesla 465 billion to move production from their garage to their first factory. At the time Musk was not yet a billionaire and was also heavily invested in getting SpaceX off the ground. Without that loan, Tesla would have failed.

PowerFarta 2025-10-02 16:23

Irony is they beat expectations on Q3 deliveries, so its down today

pzerr 2025-10-02 17:36

Not only will a large number not pay, but a few that would have bought in the next 3 months would have upped their purchase date to last week and bought early. The drop off is going to be substantial the last quarter. Higher costs and most bought early.

Poococktail 2025-10-02 18:00

Used Teslas prices have crashed. Literally 1/2 price. Imagine being a full price payer? Ouch.

RocketLabBeatsSpaceX 2025-10-02 18:15

I think that’s what makes me the angriest; taxpayers have been putting money in his pockets for years. The taxpayers should have never had to foot the bill for everyone else’s EV’s. Tesla would’ve failed with government cheese. Just goes to show that you CAN get rich off welfare. If his company was so great, it would’ve been able to stand on its own. Instead a constant flow of tax dollars allowed them to build out manufacturing infrastructure.

RocketLabBeatsSpaceX 2025-10-02 18:18

When it comes to a Tesla, a price crash is probably safer than a real one.

apachevoyeur 2025-10-02 18:38

Wait! TSLA down 4% rn. Are folks finally seeing the truth of Tesla now?

Key-Beginning-2201 2025-10-02 18:41

Since Tesla only made a profit last quarter because of the subsidy, they can't compete either.

Centralredditfan 2025-10-02 18:44

I quit trying to understand that stock. None of the rules of the stock market apply at all..

AbleDanger12 2025-10-02 23:13

Probably not.

RightInThePeyronie 2025-10-03 00:45

The Doger got Doged. Wamp wamp.

BringBackUsenet 2025-10-03 01:47

So now is overpriced junk is even more overpriced. Meanwhile customers are fleeing the brand.

BringBackUsenet 2025-10-03 01:47

All the rules of a speculative bubble do apply.

needssomefun 2025-10-03 10:57

Keep accumullating TSLA short ETF. It's dirt cheap, nothing defies gravity forever. I'm not betting the future on it but when this bubble bursts I will do quite well for the literal pennies I'm risking.

Secret-Revolution172 2025-10-03 12:43

Which one did you buy? I’ll toss in a few Pennies

needssomefun 2025-10-03 13:12

I like TSLZ. 2x reverse etf

torokunai 2025-10-04 23:10

million; I think the real backstory there is that loan allowed Elon to acquire the Toyota plant and get Model S production closer without giving up his 25% share of the company; ie. it saved him 10% or so, $140B of his current net worth.

torokunai 2025-10-04 23:24

anybody going to Tesla's site to buy a 3 or Y this month is a complete moron, unless they make over $300K LOL

torokunai 2025-10-04 23:27

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1MMXJ

BajaRooster 2025-10-05 16:06

Deliveries and actual sales are different so the CC will be the telling story. They also bought back a lot of inventory and pulled some forward sales to make those numbers happen, and honestly I don’t feel their accounting reports have much integrity. The next quarterly reports will be ok with some legacy income but the Q1 2026 looks to be a disaster, so SP to $2000. A dime has never been made from a car sale as all of the income was from the corporate handouts via taxpayers. As it currently sits they will actively lose money with every sale.

Careful-Session-7220 2025-10-06 21:23

Agreed! Fuck this welfare queen!

LancelLannister_AMA 2025-10-09 13:22

Elmer Fudd

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