Surprisingly, the tariffs aren’t equal: 10% on EU imports, 2.5% on US imports. It’s not a ton, but it’s not nothing. Why not just hire Germans, then? Frankly,

Surprisingly, the tariffs aren’t equal: 10% on EU imports, 2.5% on US imports. It’s not a ton, but it’s not nothing. Why not just hire Germans, then? Frankly, Musk empirically isn’t the type to list on experts in manufacturing — he ignored them entirely when trying to fully automate the Model 3 production line. So your hypothesis strikes me as unlikely. Doing it to spite the German automakers, though, that I’d believe!