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Probably will happen, the unions hate Tesla and the administration was so scared of them that they didn't even invite Tesla to the presidential EV summit in 2021 where Biden praised GM's Mary Barra as the EV leader when Tesla had delivered over 115,000 electric cars in the United States, while General Motors produced just 26 EVs.

https://www.teslarati.com/former-tesla-exec-confirms-wsj-rep...

So won't be a big surprise if Musk is thrown into jail on some trumped up charges for giving optimistic timelines like a typical techie, meanwhile politicians lie all the time and face zero punishment.

Tesla & SpaceX have both made the government look like absolute fools. From taking advantage of tax credits for sold vehicles that no other company can even come close to, to building rockets that blow anything Boeing and NASA have been doing out of the water.

Tesla weren't invited to the summit because they're non-union.

Why was it called an EV summit and not a union summit then?

Only UAW companies were allowed at an "EV" summit despite barely having EVs for sale because it was a quid pro quo for the UAW endorsing Biden early in his campaign.

It was a government event and not to include an American company that pioneered EVs made it a very political move.

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