Remember that analogy about you could afford all the Apple devices you wanted if you put the purchase price of a new iPhone / iMac / etc into AAPL stock for a few years instead of buying their product?
How many shares of TSLA do you need to short to be able to buy their car with the profits? They’re gonna need a few $B by the end of the year one way or the other, and usually the way that happens isn’t good for the stock price.
Cautionary stock discussion here, for longs or unsecured creditors, er, depositors.