{"id":15481,"date":"2024-08-10T06:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/his-rhetoric-has-made-tesla-toxic-is-elon-musk-driving-away-his-target-market\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T06:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:38:29","slug":"his-rhetoric-has-made-tesla-toxic-is-elon-musk-driving-away-his-target-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/his-rhetoric-has-made-tesla-toxic-is-elon-musk-driving-away-his-target-market\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic\u2019: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVs<\/p>\n

Elon Musk has long flirted with rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire\u2019s political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the company that he built into the world\u2019s largest electric carmaker: just how far can he go before customers start to abandon his products?<\/p>\n

The German pharmacy chain Rossmann was one of the first to put its head above the parapet this week. The family-owned company announced that it would not add to the 34 Teslas in its company fleet because of Musk\u2019s endorsement of Donald Trump<\/a> for US president.<\/p>\n

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\nThere are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVs
\nElon Musk has long flirted with rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire\u2019s political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the company that he built into the world\u2019s largest electric carmaker: just how far can he go before customers start to abandon his products?
\nThe German pharmacy chain Rossmann was one of the first to put its head above the parapet this week. The family-owned company announced that it would not add to the 34 Teslas in its company fleet because of Musk\u2019s endorsement of Donald Trump for US president. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVs Elon Musk has long flirted with rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire\u2019s political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the …<\/p>\n

\u2018His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic\u2019: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}