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groundloop

(13,567 posts)
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:17 AM Mar 2025

Tesla backer says Musk must reduce Trump work, as 46,000 Cybertrucks recalled

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Source: The Guardian

Tesla and Elon Musk are embroiled in a “brand tornado crisis moment” and the electric carmaker’s chief executive needs to cut back on his work for Donald Trump to stem the damage, one of the company’s biggest supporters has said.

The warning came as Tesla announced a recall of 46,000 Cybertrucks in the US on Thursday to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving.

It came as protesters announced on Wednesday they were planning what they described as their biggest day of action yet against the EV maker, with 500 demonstrations expected at Tesla showrooms around the world on 29 March.

Tesla shares have lost a third of their value over the past month because of a number of investor concerns including the impact on sales from Musk’s high-profile involvement with the Trump administration, including gutting the public sector through his “department of government efficiency” (Doge).

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/20/tesla-musk-trump-work-cybertruck-recall-dan-ives-protests



How many of us mere mortals could get away with neglecting our job while doing "work" for someone else?
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Tesla backer says Musk must reduce Trump work, as 46,000 Cybertrucks recalled (Original Post) groundloop Mar 2025 OP
I'm sure the Muskrat is able to keep two dumpster fires going at once. nt Xipe Totec Mar 2025 #1
Until he falls in and gets burned IronLionZion Mar 2025 #3
I predict in a few years, Tesla will be like Blockbuster - No longer exist. Decent people will not want to associate tulipsandroses Mar 2025 #2
All of this aside, the cyber trucks and the tesla brand are going to fail. The Chinese EVs are light yrs ahead PortTack Mar 2025 #13
And Musk's bank account will still be stuffed with money. live love laugh Mar 2025 #16
His 14 kids will find a way to drain it.... Backseat Driver Mar 2025 #18
This is also an actual "recall" that will get the owners attention ToxMarz Mar 2025 #4
Just how many ppl own those hideous dumpsters? tavernier Mar 2025 #15
Musk is vastly overextended as he flails around in a hyperactive ketamine-fueled rampage. One of these Martin68 Mar 2025 #5
Deranged maniacs; so true. patphil Mar 2025 #11
That lunatic psychopath said yesterday he predicts ONE MILLION... Justice matters. Mar 2025 #14
Musk has been reported to be a liability in the various companies he supposedly runs Emrys Mar 2025 #6
I can't imagine Musk could add anything to make Tesla better Gore1FL Mar 2025 #7
Maybe if they raked their car lots for leaves, there would be fewer fires. Torchlight Mar 2025 #8
Musk now has access to $trillions of US dollars per year. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #9
Probably too late. 2naSalit Mar 2025 #10
Yeah...it is too late. His rep around the World is total SHIT. Quit Trump or not it's OVER. Bengus81 Mar 2025 #12
And the Corvair Seinan Sensei Mar 2025 #19
This is the "engineer" enigmania Mar 2025 #17
AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING Omaha Steve Mar 2025 #20

Xipe Totec

(44,469 posts)
1. I'm sure the Muskrat is able to keep two dumpster fires going at once. nt
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:21 AM
Mar 2025

IronLionZion

(50,816 posts)
3. Until he falls in and gets burned
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:44 AM
Mar 2025

tulipsandroses

(8,131 posts)
2. I predict in a few years, Tesla will be like Blockbuster - No longer exist. Decent people will not want to associate
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:42 AM
Mar 2025

themselves with Tesla and despite trump's WH car lot infomercial, MAGA will not be buying up Teslas.

PortTack

(35,811 posts)
13. All of this aside, the cyber trucks and the tesla brand are going to fail. The Chinese EVs are light yrs ahead
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:13 AM
Mar 2025

And much more affordable …and their newest feature, the battery charges for a 250 mi ride in 5 minutes!

Typical rich idiot…instead of doing real R&D that would lead to new features, he just kept reproducing the same damn car. Steve Wozniak says the car computer system is arcane.

I luv this for him!

live love laugh

(16,187 posts)
16. And Musk's bank account will still be stuffed with money.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:33 AM
Mar 2025

Backseat Driver

(4,671 posts)
18. His 14 kids will find a way to drain it....
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:53 AM
Mar 2025

ToxMarz

(2,753 posts)
4. This is also an actual "recall" that will get the owners attention
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:20 AM
Mar 2025

Most of Tesla's "recalls" are over the air software updates. I don't think they can fix body parts falling off with a passive software update. People are going to have to schedule service, take their vehicles somewhere, drop them off, be without them, pick them up. Be very inconvenienced. Sucks for them.

tavernier

(14,265 posts)
15. Just how many ppl own those hideous dumpsters?
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:31 AM
Mar 2025

I thought the toady looking teslas were ugly until I saw the trash bins.

Martin68

(27,033 posts)
5. Musk is vastly overextended as he flails around in a hyperactive ketamine-fueled rampage. One of these
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:29 AM
Mar 2025

days he's going to have to come back down to earth, and it will be an enormous crash. I suspect he wants to take as many of us with him as he can when he goes down. We have two deranged maniacs in charge of our government.

patphil

(8,723 posts)
11. Deranged maniacs; so true.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:01 AM
Mar 2025

Justice matters.

(9,376 posts)
14. That lunatic psychopath said yesterday he predicts ONE MILLION...
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:24 AM
Mar 2025

ONE MILLION people will "live" on... Mars in 20 years... then corrected to extend that lunacy up to 30 years!

Just who in their right mind would just begin to want to go live in a red-dusted desert without ever going out to breathe fresh air??

Totally unrealistic! His numbers don't add up!



That racist Fascist psychopath needs to be thrown in a padded cell!

Emrys

(8,927 posts)
6. Musk has been reported to be a liability in the various companies he supposedly runs
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:34 AM
Mar 2025

SpaceX had to develop strategies for sidestepping his destructive meddling.

I would guess there's a chance that if he does spend more time on Tesla due to shareholder pressure, he'll want to look busy for appearances' sake, and will cause even more chaos in what is already a deeply troubled company.

Gore1FL

(22,837 posts)
7. I can't imagine Musk could add anything to make Tesla better
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:38 AM
Mar 2025

They are probably best off without his input.

Torchlight

(6,307 posts)
8. Maybe if they raked their car lots for leaves, there would be fewer fires.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:43 AM
Mar 2025

Irish_Dem

(79,741 posts)
9. Musk now has access to $trillions of US dollars per year.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:45 AM
Mar 2025

Tesla is chump change to him at this point.

2naSalit

(99,979 posts)
10. Probably too late.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:00 AM
Mar 2025

Bengus81

(9,809 posts)
12. Yeah...it is too late. His rep around the World is total SHIT. Quit Trump or not it's OVER.
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:07 AM
Mar 2025

You fucked up on a colossal basis you dipshit Eloon, you Mike Pillow'ed yourself. The shit he's done,the non-caring,the data snatching,killing off cancer research for children,fucking farmers over big time for what, 0.05% cut of the Budget.

He can't put the genie back in the bottle.

Fine with me you POS,hope that car company goes the way of the fucking Edsel and Studebaker.

Seinan Sensei

(1,357 posts)
19. And the Corvair
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 11:05 AM
Mar 2025

“Unsafe at Any Speed “

enigmania

(395 posts)
17. This is the "engineer"
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 10:45 AM
Mar 2025

that recently claimed the body work on his dumpsters vehicles was 'accurate to ten microns'.

Omaha Steve

(108,417 posts)
20. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING
Thu Mar 20, 2025, 11:13 AM
Mar 2025

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