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Originally Posted by James

A lot of Tesla's share value is from the electric vehicle mandates. If they wanted to punish Elon they would get rid of those.

If European leaders have genuinely had enough they could financially end Musk with a few policy tweaks. Europe is far too big a market for him to be messing around like he has been, I've noted he's an awful lot quieter recently.

Also the fairly obvious issue that Trump/MAGA/that-side-of-the-fence are climate change denialists and NASCAR fans who want big, loud, American muscle and trucks... not electric cars. He's alienating his core market.

Half of them also don't believe in outer space and think Mars is a myth.