Tesla's Dodgy Financial Reporting (Part 1): What They Don't Want You To See

Part 1 of a new series. Started with the low-hanging fruit. More to come next week.

Any auto analyst who’s modeled Tesla’s financials before knows that it has the worst disclosures in the auto industry. After covering Tesla for 8 years, I’ve found many data items that they’ve either changed the definition of, or completely stopped disclosing.

As there are too many cases to report in one article today (and there are more examples leakin…