{"id":18019,"date":"2025-03-08T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/major-brand-worries-just-how-toxic-is-elon-musk-for-tesla\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:38:04","slug":"major-brand-worries-just-how-toxic-is-elon-musk-for-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/major-brand-worries-just-how-toxic-is-elon-musk-for-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Major brand worries\u2019: Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With sales down and electric vehicle rivals catching up, the rightwing politico\u2019s brand is driving into a storm<\/p>\n<p>Globally renowned brands would not, ordinarily, want to be associated with Germany\u2019s far-right opposition. But Tesla, one of the world\u2019s biggest corporate names, does not have a conventional chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>After Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/08\/eu-commission-urged-to-act-elon-musk-interference-elections\">backed Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<\/a> (AfD) \u2013 calling the party Germany\u2019s \u201conly hope\u201d \u2013 voters are considering an alternative to Tesla. Data released on Thursday showed that registrations of the company\u2019s electric cars in Germany fell 76% to 1,429 last month. Overall, electric vehicle registrations rose by 31%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/08\/major-brand-worries-just-how-toxic-is-elon-musk-for-tesla\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/91277532a993ac52284324887b5b0d21ee579535\/0_0_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=612382df60115073d39fb49d41c8c365\" title=\"\u2018Major brand worries\u2019: Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla?\" \/>With sales down and electric vehicle rivals catching up, the rightwing politico\u2019s brand is driving into a storm<br \/>\nGlobally renowned brands would not, ordinarily, want to be associated with Germany\u2019s far-right opposition. But Tesla, one of the world\u2019s biggest corporate names, does not have a conventional chief executive.<br \/>\nAfter Elon Musk backed Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) \u2013 calling the party Germany\u2019s \u201conly hope\u201d \u2013 voters are considering an alternative to Tesla. Data released on Thursday showed that registrations of the company\u2019s electric cars in Germany fell 76% to 1,429 last month. Overall, electric vehicle registrations rose by 31%. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With sales down and electric vehicle rivals catching up, the rightwing politico\u2019s brand is driving into a storm Globally renowned brands would not, ordinarily, want to be associated with Germany\u2019s far-right opposition. But Tesla, one of the world\u2019s biggest corporate names, does not have a conventional chief executive. After Elon Musk backed Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/major-brand-worries-just-how-toxic-is-elon-musk-for-tesla\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Major brand worries\u2019: Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18020,"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\/18019"}],"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=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}