Tesla's quarterly sales plunge as backlash against Elon Musk grows

I'm skeptical about demand for the new Model Y from a couple of perspectives, even though there's still a fair amount of growth for electric vehicles, the market is slowing down,

said Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager at Tesla investor Globalt Investments

Shareholders are hoping Musk will now have the time to focus on rebuilding the Tesla brand,

said Stock Trader Network Chief Strategist Dennis Dick, who has a position in Tesla, referring to the Politico report

Our view is this situation is not sustainable, and the longer Musk stays at DOGE, the more risk there is to the Tesla story,

said Ives,

If Tesla is just a car company, why is the stock up 5% after a huge miss on Q1 deliveries

posted one user, with an image of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot, which Musk has repeatedly said would overshadow everything else the company has built

The brand crisis issues are clearly having a negative impact on Tesla...there is no debate,

he said

I don’t like what’s happening to you, ... Wow. That’s beautiful.”

said Trump, before slipping into a red Model S and exclaiming

I bought this before Elon went crazy.”

Owners have put bumper stickers on their cars saying

A lot of companies are going to be in great shape because they've already built their plant ... Others will come into our country and build."

Trump previously ... adding:

I also think he's got a big company to run, ... and so at some point he's going to be going back. He wants to."

Trump added

People who come to work here feel really passionately about this work,

the spokesperson said

It was commonplace to stand up chats on any given national security topic,

said one of the people involved in the chats, ... adding that

Waltz built the entire NSC communications process on Signal,

said one of the people

As I mentioned several years ago, it increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence,

he posted on X at 3:33 a.m. ET today, about five hours after the Associated Press called the race for liberal judge SUSAN CRAWFORD and five hours before Tesla’s sales release hit the Business Wire

Exactly what the stock needed,

said Stock Trader Network Chief Strategist Dennis Dick, who has a position in the stock, referring to the report

We knew 1Q Tesla deliveries would be soft but these numbers were bad. We are not going to look at these numbers with rose colored glasses...they were a disaster on every metric. Refresh issues but brand crisis key. The time has come for Musk...fork in the road moment for Tesla,

he wrote

My Tesla stock and the stock of everyone who holds Tesla has gone, went roughly in half,

Musk said on Sunday night at a rally he held in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to promote the right-wing judge he backed in Tuesday's state supreme court election

Brad Landernew York City Comptroller

The basis of the potential litigation are the material misstatements from Tesla claiming that CEO Elon Musk spends significant time on the company and is highly active in its management, despite his helming the Trump Administration's DOGE initiative, spending little of his time actually managing Tesla, and promoting policies that are actively harmful to Tesla's business."

In a Tuesday statement, Lander's office said

There's no way to sugarcoat it, Tesla's first-quarter delivery numbers are a disappointment, though many investors were already preparing for a soft number

Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said

While the changeover of Model Y lines across all four of our factories led to the loss of several weeks of production in Q1, the ramp of the new Model Y continues to go well

In a statement, the Texas-based company said

My heart goes out to you.

Many of the materials distributed by protesters highlight the alleged far-right gesture made by Musk during the inauguration, in which he said