'Sad and depressing': Longtime Tesla investor Ross Gerber sees a painful road ahead for the EV maker after earnings

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• Ross Gerber thinks Tesla's myriad problems aren't going away anytime soon.
• The longtime investor said the company's latest earnings results were "garbage."
• Tesla will likely keep struggling unless Elon Musk addresses his reputational crisis, he said on Thursday.

Ross Gerber sees no silver lining in Tesla's dismal second-quarter earnings.

The longtime Tesla investor said he believed that the carmaker's problems aren't going away anytime soon.