{"id":103372,"date":"2015-02-13T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=103372"},"modified":"2015-02-13T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T04:00:12","slug":"the-case-against-tesla-and-why-success-may-be-harder-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=103372","title":{"rendered":"Electric Car &#8211; The case against Tesla, and why success may be harder than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Tesla&#8217;s big fourth-quarter earnings and sales miss, auto analyst Adam Jonas says now is the perfect time to jump in.<\/p>\n<p>The car business is my life. I buy cars, sell cars, finance cars and write about the whole process.<br \/>\nThat guy in high school who used to sit in the back of class and read car magazines all day? I was that guy, and I still am.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not blind to the industry&#8217;s problems. As a former financial analyst, I knew General Motors was heading for trouble in 2007 and 2008, even when the company was pronouncing itself healthy. To supplement my income, I shorted 1,000 shares of GM stock\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/blogs\/motoramic\/the-case-against-tesla--and-why-success-may-be-harder-than-ever-211558551.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Tesla&#8217;s big fourth-quarter earnings and sales miss, auto analyst Adam Jonas says now is the perfect time to jump in. The car business is my life. I buy cars, sell cars, finance cars and write about the whole process. That guy in high school who used to sit in the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,84,69,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-action-sports-business-news","category-electric-vehicles","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103375,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103372\/revisions\/103375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}