FYI, the pre-ordering thing is an accounting trick because there's a way they can put the pre-ordered car on the books as a sold unit, so he can claim have "sold" 30,000 or so cars that don't even exist and might not ever if Tesla goes down the tubes.
It's not an accounting trick if all of your investors and debtors know about it.
Apparently 200,000 people have said that they have pre ordered the truck on social media. If there is a gap between that figure and the real figure, we can assume there's some trickery going on.
FYI, the pre-ordering thing is an accounting trick because there's a way they can put the pre-ordered car on the books as a sold unit, so he can claim have "sold" 30,000 or so cars that don't even exist and might not ever if Tesla goes down the tubes.