Elon Musk’s polarizing political actions since acquiring Twitter, later rebranded X, in 2022 dramatically hurt the automaker’s U.S. sales, underscoring how deeply its fortunes are intertwined with the billionaire’s persona.
The findings quantify for the first time how the political actions of the world’s wealthiest person – including his role in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration – may have cost Tesla billions in lost vehicle sales while benefiting rival electric carmakers.
Tesla’s U.S. sales would have been between 67% and 83% higher, or about 1 million to 1.26 million additional vehicles, from October 2022 to April 2025, had it not been for what researchers call the “Musk partisan effect,” according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research by Yale University economists.
Then why are they wanting to pay him 1 trillion dollars? Rich people are weird.
Then why are they wanting to pay him 1 trillion dollars? Rich people are weird.
Because Musk is asking for it, and the Tesla board who are all his hand picked friends, are the ones that vote on it.
The board doesn’t vote on his compensation package, the shareholders do. The pay committee proposes his compensation package to the shareholders and then they all vote on it.
He put two LED light bars on the old Model Y and came up with a cheap Model Y that covers the existing glass roof in headliner fabric.
How is that not innovation?
Don’t forget he took the lidar sensors out to make self driving way better. Oh wait
Radar and ultrasonic. I don’t think they ever had lidar.
It had lidar rangefinders I believe. Nothing like the lidar scanners on actual delft driving cars, but still better than just cameras.
I was going to say “what about the cybertruck” but I guess everyone wants to throw him in an oubliette for that.
Tesla has to hit 10Trillion to get that pay out. It will not.
Because he did one thing right. He didn’t build a traditional investor base, he built a cult.
fuck nazis and fuck musk specifically. weird ass pedo mf
I remember all those news articles “Was this a Nazi salute? Can we be sure?” lmao
There Mr. Musk predicts market caps of his competitors.
Just his politics? Not his holistically shitty personally, face, body, vibe and …aura?
Nah, tons of savvy, socially-awkward, successfuly ugly mugs exist. This guy’s just a tool.
I mean… I don’t know shit about any other car manufacturers. If I were in the market for an EV, and the specs on a specific car sound best for my needs, and you tell me "Did you know the CEO of that car company, has a terrible personality, face, vibe and aura… I’d probably still buy the car.
If you tell me the CEO of that company did a sig heil, created a group to slash pediatric cancer research, helped get the orange cheeto elected, supports the US republican party and the far right german party, constantly tweets and agrees with great replacement theory posts…
Then yeah I’m not buying that car.
CEOs are generally terrible. Anyone who wants to be in charge should on no account be allowed to be.
especially one on DRUGS. that switches between ketamine, cocaine, shrooms, and alcohol.
Sadly if you spend any time on LinkedIn, most management types still look up to him as a role model.
ketamine king, you can order ketamine on the TAP from elons blood. enough ketamine in his system to knock out an small elephant.
Being a nazi is not politics, It’s being a fucking nazi.
I could admire someone sticking to their principles in face of losing money, but when the principles are “be a dick to marginalised people for the lulz” you’ve just got a garbage human being
It is politics. Just some political beliefs are fucking evil.
All he had to do was stfu and rake in money. How many other car ceos can you name?
Chris Farley’s cousin. I wanna say Jim Farley?
Gordon Murray and also ex CEO Carlos Ghosn. First guy is cool and second one is very interesting. He had to get himself smuggled out of Japan
I get it for those that were stuck in a loan, etc…totally understandable. But yeah, I have no idea why someone would buy his cars knowing what we all know now.
Unless they support Nazis.
I was pricing various solar setups and quite a few options involved the Tesla name. I just cannot imagine putting that on my house, which is likely to be something I hang onto even longer than a car…
I mean, I have one. But I got it a long time ago when it was the only long range electric car on the market. Now Tesla is the absolute last brand I would choose.
Meanwhile, in the land that was previously populated mostly by lifted, coal-rolling diesel trucks with “Prius Repellant” decals, Teslas are now everywhere shortly after February 2025 for some fucking reason.
“from my heart to…” Uhh yea, he’s a Nazi
You’ve cost us billions in sales! Your views are killing the company!!
Are you going to fire me?
No! We’re going to pay you MORE!!
Musk has kompromats on board of directors and shareholders.
They’re all his family and friends
How is he still the CEO?
He stacked the board like Trump does government agencies. Friends and family.
Fascist billionaire is still way too rich. Stupid people still buying nazimobiles
Any model year 2024+ Tesla needs to be open game for vandalism. The damn things should be uninsurable.
The trading with tesla stocks is prabablyworse because there is where he drains his income from
Feels like if he could just STFU he’d be golden. I remember when he was widely seen in a positive light. He was practically messianic on Reddit back in the day. Then his innate pettiness came out when he called that diver a peado. It feels like his mask slipped then and everything after just reinforced the fact that he’s an unchecked and uncaring megalomaniac.
One million sales? It needs to be all sales. Don’t buy swasticars.
He clearly needs a trillion dollar pay package!
Exactly, just needs a little motivation.
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