Every time the SP goes down a bunch, the conspiracy theories start flying here. Can we agree on one thing: anyone threatened by Tesla (Big Oil, Legacy Auto, etc) is not going to attack Tesla via its SP. That would be very expensive, and for absolutely no benefit. Tesla is self-funding its operations now and into the future, it's not going to the markets to raise money. It doesn't do that many acquisitions-for-stock. Tesla's success or failure at this point has nothing to do with whether the SP at the end of the year is 2000 or 500!
The mainstream media may have ownership and advertising conflicts that could distort its coverage, but the far simpler explanation for its negative coverage is that it thrives on eyeballs, and stories about recalls and crashes and fires attract eyeballs.
Who is left to be manipulating the markets: traders! Retail and institutional, big and small. Short and long. Do they conspire? Not in the sense of getting together in a back room, but traders certainly have a herd mentality, and many are looking at the exact same price movements and TA to make their own moves. Short traders will take any opportunity to drive the SP down, and they live for the days when there is enough fear in the market (or fear about Tesla) that their momentary push down of the SP causes a calvacade of selling. On days when that isn't working, they will do everything they can to cap moves higher. Meanwhile. long traders are doing the opposite, making trades to set floors and looking for opportunities to trigger a steep march.
TSLA, with an enormous global investor interest both for common equity and options, and a high growth stock with a high PE, is the wet dream of traders.
Do most of these traders care about Tesla, the company? Not one iota! For all they care, Tesla could be in the toilet paper business! Most short traders aren't trying to hurt the company, just the SP!
How about TMC posters? I'd divide us into three camps. A minority of us are primarily traders. (Good luck to you, but you really should be doing something more useful to society than trading.) The largest group of us are the folks who mostly invest long term, but we can't resist the occasional short term trade. I fall in this category, and I'd really appreciate professional therapy to stop myself from doing any short term trading, because it seldom ends well, and is bad for my digestive system. And then there are the folks here who just invest for the long term. God bless their resistance to temptation. None of these trader shenanigans makes the slightest difference to them. But even for this blessed group, it's hard not to feel bad when the paper value of your account goes into the toilet, and you may even get angry and start looking for villains to blame.
And so, another 16,000 pages of this thread will continue to demonize "them", when in fact, the problem is us. Stop trading, Stop worrying. Be more like Elon: do something productive, and invest in the future of innovation.
(no offense to our Spanish friends here), Poland - 
- Also, there's a serious skilled labor shortage in Poland. It's all left to other countries in Europe for better working conditions and pay. Poland imports cheap labor from Belarus and Ukraine. The high-skilled engineering and tech employees that Tesla requires will not relocated to Poland. 
