Elon Musk sure hasn't lost his sense of humor through all this. Via Marketwatch, he posted a series of April Fools' Day jokes on Twitter. Perhaps the best one: Tesla Goes Bankrupt Palo Alto, California, April 1, 2018 -- Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt. So bankrupt you can't believe it.
This Bloomberg article has some negative notes, but also has this positive take where customers are still hyped about their Teslas:
From the looks of social media posts by customers who took delivery of their Model 3 over the holiday weekend, Tesla still maintains an army of true believers who are staying put in line for their car. “Two years ago to the day, I put down a deposit on a car I’d never even seen before,” Amanda Bell, a software developer in Nashville, wrote Saturday on Twitter. “Today, I picked up my dream car.”
And Wired puts the recent bolts recall into context.
The truly troubling problems are the really big ones, like the Takata recall, in which tens of millions of cars were equipped with airbags that could malfunction and fire shrapnel into the people they were meant to protect when they deployed. A few years ago, General Motors had to recall nearly 30 million cars around the world because of a faulty ignition switch, which could turn off while driving and deactivate the airbags.
Based on what I've read, I agree with Wired, the bolts issue seems to be getting way too much hype.
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