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The Daily Galaxy on MSNElon Musk Took €150 Million From the EU to Develop Tesla—Then Backed Europe’s Most Controversial PartyElon Musk’s Tesla secured more than €150 million in public funding from the European Union to develop its infrastructure across the continent. According to internal records disclosed by the European Commission,
Karsten Wildberger was himself a little surprised to be appointed to Chancellor Friedrich Merz's new Cabinet. What Wildberger's job means in practice is yet to be seen, but the focus on efficiency and digitalization,
A data centre outage at Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, disrupted access for thousands of users worldwide on 23 May. The issue peaked around midnight IST, with over 6,000 reports globally. The company acknowledged the technical problem through its engineering account but offered no timeline for a fix.
Tesla Inc. workers shouldn’t pay the price for Elon Musk’s polarizing foray into politics, a minister for the German region home to the carmaker’s sole European factory said.
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Europe turns on Elon Musk and Tesla as new car sales flatline. What's behind the sales plunge?The company's new car sales plunged to their lowest in over two years in Britain and Germany, Reuters reported May 6 ... by increased competition in the EV space and reactions to Elon Musk's political activities as Senior Advisor to the President of ...
The announcement that the AfD would be challenging the classification went largely unnoticed in the United States. But last week, when Germany’s domestic intelligence agency the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) declared the AfD to be extremist, some of the most prominent political figures on the American right were up in arms.
But the political gamble has come at a steep cost.
Troubles in the key US and Chinese markets put German carmakers’ adaptability to the test. But Tesla's struggles amid rising EV sales could give them a badly needed new opportunity.
Despite steep tariffs, the Chinese carmaker leapfrogged Tesla in April, in what an analyst called a “watershed moment” for the continent’s auto market.