Well, If Tesla decided to sell their 43,200 Bitcoins now... it will push the price down... and they will not have a 1 Billion Dollar profit. You cannot just dump that amount of coins on the markets and expect the price to stay the same.
Well, do you think that such a sale would take place on the open market? There is an OTC for such things, and that is the way that the company bought BTC back in Q4 2020, and it became known only a few months later.
Tesla will be clever enough to dump small amounts over a longer period... to get the most profit out of those coins. They will also make sure that they do not mess with the liquidity of the market to sell those coins.
They are in a win-win situation no matter from which angle we look - because it is ideal to sell and then bring down the price and buy again cheaply. EM is a businessman who only cares about profit, I don't know why people believe that he has some great sympathy for Bitcoin, it's an investment for him like any other.
Does anyone know how much free money his company gets as an incentive from the government?
The company is also the top beneficiary of indirect government subsidies in the form of sales of pollution credits–including California ZEV credits, U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy credits and more recently European Union carbon credits–to automakers that need them. To date, Tesla has reported $3.1 billion in lucrative credit sales, which are essentially free money.