> The recent increase in interest rates surely had something to do with it. Elon Musk said so... He said, repeatedly, he was worried about high interest rates

> The recent increase in interest rates surely had something to do with it. Elon Musk said so... He said, repeatedly, he was worried about high interest rates (and they're not even that high: I've known 13%+ in my lifetime) and the effect on buying people cars with loans (which is: most of them).