Comment Mostly hot air at this point (Score 4, Informative) 155
The pool was setup over a month ago. The timing of the announcement now amounts to a stock pump given the incredibly weak Q1 delivery numbers.
It's all speculation at this point how much money these credits will net them, and it's not like they're going to be the only player. Many Chinese companies are going to be selling BEVs starting next year. $1 - $500M, over the course of 3 years, with very little credits needed to be bought this year. At most, FCA may have given Tesla some money immediately as a call, in the tens of millions, but if something like this has happened, where is the 8K that should be filed to show this?
At most it may have helped payroll for a week, but does nothing to alleviate Tesla's immediate, existential threats.