I know Tesla overproduced S/X, put miles on it, and sold it at a discount to meet quarter numbers.
I wish you would just be honest about your Tesla Hater agenda. You're repeating one of the Big Lies which Tesla Hater cultists keep spewing out on Seeking Alpha, which is likely where you got that Big Lie you're now repeating.
All of Tesla's "inventory" cars are listed on their website. In the past, those have been only ones used as demos and as service center loaners; the one with "miles put on them". Such cars are sold new, but at a certain discount per mile and, if my understanding is correct, also a discount based on how many months the car has been in use.
However, during one quarter (was that last year, or the year before?) Tesla did produce some units specifically to be sold as-is, rather than going thru the usual order process. Yes, that was because demand had fallen below what Tesla could produce. Those units did not, of course, have extra "miles put on them". The dishonesty you're insinuating here is yours alone -- not Tesla's. You accusing Tesla of dishonesty in the midst of posting FUD is not only hypocritical, it's despicable.
How do we know this is true because their profit margin on S/X went to the toilet
Amazing how many lies you can pack into so few words.
1. We don't know that
2. It's not true
3. Tesla doesn't report profit margins for the MS & MX separately from the Model 3 profit margins, so neither you nor I know what the profit margin for those two models was for the last two quarters. Tesla threw a lot of money at putting the Model 3 into production, but unfortunately didn't manage to make and sell many of them, so
of course Tesla's overall profit margin went down.
Duh.
It's known as "It takes money to make money." Tesla isn't making much money on the TM3 yet -- but that almost certainly will change this year, by quite a bit!
And don't pretend like you didn't know all that, either. Anybody who knows enough about the details of Tesla's finances, enough to lie about it again and again and again in a detailed manner, obviously has a financial interest in Tesla -- and obviously a negative one!
Go peddle your Hater FUD somewhere it might be appreciated, not here on a forum intended for real discussion of EVs.
Go Tesla!