The one news item about Tesla I've heard of is that Elon Musk has gone full "LIBERTY & DEATH!", including something close to the sort of nervous Twitter breakdo

The one news item about Tesla I've heard of is that Elon Musk has gone full "LIBERTY & DEATH!", including something close to the sort of nervous Twitter breakdown that seems to be the (literal!) rage among people in leadership positions these days. While Musk always had this strange quirk where he's both supremely successful and prone to superficial, belligerent forwards-from-grandpa-style opinions on unrelated matters, his current state seems distinctly worse than ever before. My theory is that Tesla is hurting really bad under the current circumstances, putting enormous pressure on him. Tesla also has the problem that, unlike traditional car manufacturers, they don't have much of a lobby in Washington to bail them out, especially under the current administration. And even in California, they probably have neither the numbers nor the strong unions with long-established political power that GM has in and around Michigan. Plus California has far more other business further diminishing Tesla's standing in comparison.