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No. Plenty of companies have huge R&D in technology. Tesla is a car company because its revenue comes from selling cars, not AI. If Tesla had to survive selling AI or software it wouldn’t have lasted this long.

Another valid view is that Tesla is a parasite on the public dole that also happens to make cars.

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I thought teslas real revenue comes from carbon offsets? They do not make a profit from the actual cars

> I thought teslas real revenue comes from carbon offsets? They do not make a profit from the actual cars

And what determines the volume of carbon offsets Tesla receives from the government? Number of EVs they sell perhaps?

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