A week ago, it was safe to say Tesla seemed to be ending the year on a rough note.
Between reports of layoffs, losing momentum in China, crackdowns on its Autopilot driver assistance software, CEO Elon Musk’s disastrous ownership of Twitter losing both money and face and long-promised products like the Cybertruck and Roadster feeling perpetually MIA, Tesla seemed poised to enter 2023 with more challenges than it’s ever faced before.
For a company that’s weathered as much turmoil in a…