Not impossible, but automotive is not Amazon's core competency.
I believe we have to look at the even wider historic and personal context and background: to both Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk their space companies are their
real obsessions:
So I think the Tesla media reporting distortion and negative bias phenomenon
@ZachShahan documented could in part be the opening skirmishes of a nasty proxy war for space.
SpaceX as a private company and as an amazing success story is much harder to attack - so Tesla gets attacked as a "soft target", with plenty of collateral damage. The shorts and Wall Street might be helping, but Business Insider's motivation to attack Tesla systematically could also stem from its ownership structure I believe.
Both Jeff and Elon are thinking big. Really big. Very, very big:
Which competition I totally support, I only wish Bezos would stop fighting dirty ...
(Assuming I'm right, which I might not be.)