Dan Ives: Tesla numbers a “disaster on every metric”

It’s been a bad day for Tesla, which reported incredibly disappointing delivery numbers this morning.

The electric vehicle company only managed to sell 337,000 vehicles in Q1, a decline of 50,000 from a year earlier and the biggest absolute dip on record. Its performance also caught Wall Street off guard. Deliveries were 14% fewer than the Bloomberg consensus estimate — another record. To add insult to injury, Tesla bull Dan Ives quickly released a scathing analyst note.

“We are not going to look at these numbers with rose colored glasses... they were a disaster on every metric. The Street and us knew a bad 1Q was coming but this was even worse than expected. The time has come for Musk... it’s a fork in the road moment. The more political he gets with DOGE the more the brand suffers, there is no debate. This quarter was an example of the damage Musk is causing Tesla... Musk needs to stop this political firestorm and balance being CEO of Tesla with DOGE. The future is so bright but this is a full blown crisis Tesla is navigating now and its primarily self-inflected. We remain firmly bullish on the long-term Tesla story but Musk needs to get his act together or else unfortunately darker times are ahead for Tesla.”