Summary
Tesla investors, frustrated by the stock’s decline, are demanding accountability from Elon Musk, who recently illegally demanded federal employees justify their paychecks.
Shareholders took to Musk’s social media platform X, asking him to similar list his contributions to Tesla.
The stock has fallen for six straight sessions, underperforming the Nasdaq.
Meanwhile, Musk faced backlash for overstepping in government affairs, forcing Trump to smooth tensions.
Yup, the episode goes into this too. They had a huge opportunity as the biggest early entry into the market, but instead of focusing on producing a cheap mass production model they became a hype company that over promised and under delivered. Now the only hope is if the government bails them out (and it probably will)
Given that Musk is now the king of conflicts of interest, who can eliminate whole government departments and replace them with contracts for his own companies, this seems very likely.