Tesla Is Losing Everything: The $1 Trillion Bet Just Broke

Tesla Is Losing Everything: The $1 Trillion Bet DESCRIPTION In 2023, Tesla built the best-selling car on the planet. Two years later, BYD, a company that started out making phone batteries, sold more electric cars than Tesla, the Cybertruck is being shut down, and quarterly profit is down 56%. So why did shareholders just hand Elon Musk a pay package worth up to a trillion dollars? In this video: the Cybertruck's broken promises and 11 recalls, the cheap Model 2 that never came, Europe turning its back on Tesla, the Trump fight that wiped 150 billion dollars off the shares in one afternoon, and the robot-and-robotaxi bet Tesla is now staking everything on. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:41 The Best-Selling Car on the Planet 2:20 The Truck That Broke the Glass 5:55 The Company Musk Laughed At 8:40 Tesla Loses Europe 9:50 150 Billion Dollars in One Afternoon 13:21 The Retreat 16:17 The Trillion-Dollar Bet 19:32 What Wall Street Is Buying 21:47 Is This the End of Tesla? 24:54 The Verdict 📺 Watch next: how Honda bet 65 billion dollars on electric cars and lost. 📚 Main sources Tesla quarterly and annual reports, shareholder letters and earnings calls (2022 – Q3 2026) Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, Electrek, Automotive News, Financial Times JATO Dynamics (2023 global best-sellers), Cox Automotive (Cybertruck US sales), S&P Global Mobility (brand loyalty) BYD sales and quarterly results; ACEA and national registration data for Europe NHTSA recall notices and investigations; Delaware Court of Chancery ruling (January 2024) Figures in US dollars. "Years of profit" figures are our own estimates. 🖼 Credits 3D models (CC BY 4.0, Sketchfab): "Tesla Cybertruck" by TAIGA-ZOE, "Elon Musk Low Poly" by Vadim Fedenko, "2021 Tesla Model Y" and "2021 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid" by tonielpro520, "2024 BYD Seal Performance AWD" by NazhDesign Sound effect: window smash by DRAGON-STUDIO (Pixabay) Stock footage: Pixabay Logos: Wikimedia Commons and company press materials Interview clips and news footage are used for commentary and criticism; all rights belong to their owners. #Tesla #ElonMusk #Cybertruck