Why Is Tesla Scared To Release Its Electric-Car Sales Data?

So...the problem is that Tesla should publish sales figures monthly rather than quarterly or investors might loose interest? The usual nonsense from the usual "experts". At this stage being too transparent about production numbers is hardly recommendable. Any problems in the start up phase would be known to the likes of Fox News and the other usual sceptics who will spin it into plug-ins in general and Tesla in particular being a failure. The bad publicity would kill sales and the whole thing would turn into a self fulfilling prophesy. I wouldn't invest in a company that made that sort of communication mistakes. Once production is nicely up and running, that would be the time for more frequent reporting on sales numbers.

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