But Musk later changed his mind, reportedly donating $45 million a month of his money to the pro-Trump political action committee American PAC.
`Nuff said. CEOs are often Republican, but to be this outspokenly political is normally a bad thing for CEOs like Musk. Media company heads (and Twitter/X is a media company) are supposed to at least pretend to be neutral.
And catering to the far-right seems like a bad idea if your company makes EVs. But what do I know?
Discounting the tariffs–which are not an easy issue–American electric vehicles are still in their relative infancy. Tesla has been making electric cars, yes, but they’re bad. Tesla simply doesn’t have the institutional knowledge about car manufacturing and design, so they do things that the auto industry as a whole knows is dumb. Like, electric components than can get shorted out from going to a car wash (!), or electronic door latches that become inoperable if the battery fails because the car has caught on fire (!!!). Right now, non-Chinese/non-Tesla EVs simply don’t have a lot of market presence, but the few that are on the market are selling out (e.g., when the Ford F-150 Lightning was introduced, pre-orders were more than a full year’s production). Software issues seem to be plaguing American EVs, which is… Not surprising, TBH. But IMO, I’d rather have software issues than hardware problems.
– in the united states and canada because of those tariffs; they’re dominating everywhere that doesn’t have high tariffs.