Australians aren’t buying enough electric vehicles – and there are a couple of reasons for that.
Tesla’s Cybertruck has become a dividing line in an increasingly divided America.
Driving a Tesla has become the automotive equivalent of wearing a bright-red MAGA hat – or a bright-red armband over a brown shirt.
Property carrying the logo of Musk’s electric-car company has been targeted across the US and overseas.
In Trump’s first term,his properties in New York,Washington were targeted by protesters. In the early days of his second term,Tesla is filling that role.
Musk’s politicking damages Tesla’s brand,but the underlying problem goes much deeper:It’s Tesla’s relatively old line-up of electric car models.
BYD says its latest range of electric vehicles can be charged almost as fast as it takes to refuel a regular car.
China’s electric vehicle makers are amping up the pressure on Elon Musk and Tesla.
The billionaire’s closeness to Donald Trump and support for far-right causes have prompted a backlash,but Tesla’s sales are sinking for other reasons too.
“When he stood up and made that ‘Sieg Heil’ salute,something just clicked,and I thought:‘I just cannot,cannot drive a Tesla’.”