The US firm faced a difficult year with unease over chief executive Elon Musk’s political activities and stiff overseas competition.

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    4 days ago

    Tesla and the American EV industry was already very heavily subsidized. At least up until near the end of 2025.
    To claim Tesla wasn’t heavily subsidized already when they made model S is very ignorant.

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      I didn’t claim they weren’t. I in fact just did the opposite and said they were in order to try to secure American manufacturing in the future and instead Trump pulled the plug.