Tesla fans and critics both need a reality check (TSLA)

The reality of Tesla's business is far more modest than the war over its stock price and market cap would suggest.
Tesla is ultimately a small car company operating in a small market for electric vehicles.
It's possible that business boredom is driving the up-and-down Tesla story.
In over a decade of covering both Tesla and the auto industry, I've never seen anything like the past 12 months. 
The feeding frenzy around Tesla has been unreal: Wall Street longs and shorts fighting it out; an i