US EditionYale Study Quantifies How Much Elon Musk’s Politics Have Cost Tesla
Elon Musk's divisive political stance cost Tesla 1 to 1.26 million car sales from Oct 2022 to Apr 2025, boosting competitors and affecting EV market goals, Yale researchers found.
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Yale Study Quantifies How Much Elon Musk’s Politics Have Cost Tesla
How did Tesla go from the world’s fastest-growing automaker to a company beleaguered by slowing sales and shrinking market share? According to a team of Yale researchers, the answer lies in the polarizing and partisan behavior of CEO Elon Musk. Sure, Tesla has faced headwinds from aging models, rising competition, and a saturated customer base. But an analysis of county-level data shows that its declining demand is also linked to Musk’s increasi…
How much did Tesla lose from Musk’s hard right turn?
When you’re pitching a mass-market product, it doesn’t pay to alienate half your customers, even in what appear to be highly partisan times, according to a spicy new economics paper from Yale University researchers. Shut up and drive the company if you care what’s good for business, Elon Musk, read the messages in the paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The academics carefully steered their way through the evidence and e…
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