The electric vehicle industry is closely watching to see how Tesla boss Elon Musk, who played a key role in the victory of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, will use his influence with the incoming president to steer the industry’s future.

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      7 days ago

      It doesn’t matter that he has several hundred billion more votes than anyone. Money is speech bro. Legalized bribery is democracy. Well it was. Now fascism and dictatorship are democracy. That’s called Freedom™️!

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    Of course, it could all be another elaborate pump-and-dump scheme by Elon. It wouldn’t put it past him.

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    My guess the tariffs will be on “any non-tesla car produced outside the US”.

    That means, for example, Volkswagen gets the tariff.

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      The editor, Saibal Dasgupta, seems to be a journalist located in India.

      Voice of America’s headquarter is in Washington though, so good question.