After being towed in September, the battered Tesla now rests at a Copart facility in North Seattle, where it will be auctioned to the highest bidder ... not just a damaged car, but an icon ...

"We can almost definitively say the market doesn't treat TSLA like an auto company, but rather an AI company," he wrote in a Thursday report. But should Tesla be trading more like an auto stock?

Tesla's global auto sales topped Audi's for the first time. The Volkswagen-owned Audi delivered 1.67 million cars in 2024 compared to the 1.77 million delivered by Tesla (TSLA).