{"id":74473,"date":"2025-02-07T21:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/advertising\/are-musks-politics-derailing-the-tesla-brand\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:51:44","slug":"are-musks-politics-derailing-the-tesla-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=74473","title":{"rendered":"Are Musk\u2019s politics derailing the Tesla brand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<p><!-- .entry-header-outer \/--><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>Have the wheels come off Elon Musk?<\/p>\n<p>History is littered with arrogant business owners who hare overstepped the mark (and their abilities) by dabbling outside their area of special knowledge (Henry Ford was a notable example) but Musk has blazed a more spectacular trail than most: interfering in political issues all over the world \u2013 the US obviously, UK with his intervention in the \u201crape gangs\u2019 scandal and Germany by seeming to back the far right AfD party in forthcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moreaboutadvertising.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hq720-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1825332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moreaboutadvertising.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hq720-18.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.moreaboutadvertising.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hq720-18-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moreaboutadvertising.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hq720-18-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That was via his bully pulpit X (formerly Twitter.) The main part of Musk\u2019s vast fortune derives from Tesla and, according to the FT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ea2329e4-b4bc-4e2d-be34-e9a8ea31129c\">Tesla sales are plummeting<\/a> in Europe as buyers recoil from his EVs in protest at his politics. In Germany and France Tesla sales were down around 60% in January despite overall growth in the EV market.<\/p>\n<p>Social media platform X has already taken a hammering thanks to Musk\u2019s antics and, once again, he\u2019s threatening to sue advertisers for abandoning the site. During the last such spat he seemed to triumph as many backtracked. This time he may not be so fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Suing German and French car buyers is, presumably, not an option for Musk. Tesla is his biggest achievement to date. 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