Clearly, if you want to buy a Tesla because of "Ecology" and "the Planet", there is no reason to do so anymore as your purchase directly funds the exact opposite of what you want to achieve. Same with superchargers.
And needless to say, Trump's policies on the environment ("drill baby drill") don't exactly align with the hippie stereotype of electric car buyers ("no more oil").
Which is odd as it directly goes against his own interests.
> the hippie stereotype of electric car buyers ("no more oil").
Is that still the stereotype? This might depend on where you are (I am in the UK) but my stereotype of EV buyers is affluent with a tilt to urban.
His recent interest is power. He can use that for profit later in many different ways - he's working on firing people who wanted to investigate his idea of using X as a payment network, for example.
Which is odd as it directly goes against his own interests.
It goes against his image, not his interests. These are two very different things.
He was working with Stephen Miller, one of the crazier members of Trump's team (no easy achievement), on this.
A CNN investigation found that Vice President Kamala Harris is running contradictory ads about the war in Israel, depending on where you live.
If you live in Michigan, a state with a dense Muslim-American population, you will see ads about how she supports the relief efforts in Gaza, where she says she "will not be silent."
The Michigan ad states: "What has happened in Gaza in the past nine months in devastating, we cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering," Harris is quoted in the ad.
If you drive East to Pennsylvania and flip on a television, you'll see the vice president at a different podium in an ad saying: "Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel's ability to defend itself."
For the second ad, taken from her DNC speech, the part where she advocates for peace in Gaza was edited out. CNN reports it was taken out so her message could be more strongly accepted by Jewish voters in Pennsylvania.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/beyond-the-podium/cnn-kamalas-con...
Giving more money to Tesla is giving more power to Musk, who is helping Trump and others achieve implement policies:
* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
On the eco stuff specifically, Trump literally said that climate change was a Chinese hoax:
* https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/03/hillary-cl...
* https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/trump-clings-to-inaccurate...
* https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/trump-issues-execut...
Most recently "Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global [IPCC] climate report":
* https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/climate/trump-blocks-scientis...
These are things even oil-man Dubya Bush didn't do.