Elon Musk’s ‘polarizing and partisan actions’ may have cost Tesla more than 1 million U.S. EV sales, Yale study finds

October 30, 2025

At the beginning of the year, Tesla investors pleaded with CEO Elon Musk to take a step back from his new role as the leader of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and give more attention to the ailing EV company. A new study from Yale University economists suggests those investors were right to worry.

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