Musk could continue the goal of prioritizing sales over profits
Elon Musk is prioritizing sales over profits in hopes that Tesla’s elusive full self-driving software would eventually burnish margins, a plan that could deepen an already fierce price war in the electric-vehicle industry.
Shares of the automaker fell 3.5 percent in premarket trading on Thursday after Musk signaled there might not be any let-up in cuts that have already sent gross margins to a four-year low.
Getting more cars on the road would help Tesla maintain its dominant EV market share in “turbulent times” and give it access to the precious usage data needed to train the artificial intelligence models…
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