A former Tesla general manager turned his head with a shocking new interview, putting the troubles of struggling EV maker directly at the feet of CEO Elon Musk.
According to Hard Reset alternative, Matthew Labrot, once an employee and Tesla owner, but remains a Tesla owner, lost his job a few days after he founded the Tesla employee to Elon. Futurism has more inspiration for this story, emphasizing the “game” of Tesla under Musk.
“It's time to speak out the quiet part loudly,” Labrot initially wrote to other Tesla workers in an anonymous letter before being fired, each hard reset. “Let us be clear: we are not a problem. Our products are not a problem. Our engineering, service and delivery teams are not a problem. The problem is demand. The problem is Elon.”
Despite his passion for the company’s mission to ship electric vehicles to the world, Labrot said his concerns grew as Musk’s public antics became more politicized and controversial.
“We noticed customers, returns, and avoided a little bit of us,” Labrot told Hard Reset. “That was when I started to see what he was doing on Twitter and the political views he started to make.”
As Musk's politics aligns him with people, industries and policies directly against Tesla's core mission as an electric vehicle company, Labrot has become increasingly fantasy.
“The people he chose to support are the exact people we have been fighting against as we try to accelerate sustainable energy,” Labrot told Hard Reset.
Data supports Labrot's observation of customer enthusiasm, and Tesla's sales have dropped significantly, consistent with Musk's increase in public-oriented political activism.
Year-on-year sales data in Europe, the main market for electric vehicles, showed that CNBC's 49% declined by 49% in April. This decline is the same even as overall EV sales rose by 34.1%.
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Tesla's downturn in sales is bad news for consumers and the environment. According to Statista, in 2024, the Tesla Model Y-Shaped Racing car became the first car to be sold in the world.
