I have to admit, it's Paulo Santos I can't wait to see humiliated the most as Tesla becomes more and more successful. He has been so incredibly nasty and condescending! I really look forward to his increasingly frantic short articles, then his eventual white flag of bankruptcy.
And while I'm sure some shorts are fine reasonable people just placing a directional bet like any other stock. A good chuck of tesla shorts are part of the idiot army of 'global warming is a hoax' types who also have a hatred of renewable energy and that is a big part of their hatred of tesla and why they are short. If you think global warming is a scam and renewable energy is a scam and so on, then of course tesla just has to fail eventually.