Tesla faces "potentially 15%-20% permanent brand destruction for future Tesla buyers due to the brand damage Musk has created with DOGE." Dan Ives, out with another (Easter) Sunday note: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-21/tesla-bull-calls-code-red-saying-musk-needs-to-leave-doge?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NTE5Njg4NCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ1ODAxNjg0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVjFIMkdUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzNDVFQTA0MjNBMUQ0NTI2QjY1QkNBNUZDRUJGQThGNiJ9.R1EvbZe47_e79iwaPWxTKxWYe9lMAK-SdADU3bUj5jY
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Elon needs to leave Tesla for them to ever gain anything back. He is forever poison to those that would even consider EV
We're not going to forget he was on staging doing Nazi salutes, just because he leaves DOGE.
https://www.statista.com/chart/34315/year-on-year-change-in-new-european-tesla-registrations/
They sold 100 Cyber Trucks in March. Lol
His buddies are tiring of propping up his stock (they bid the futures up at night when it slips) and now I read Tesla has been faking ODO mileage to avoid warranty repairs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/tranquil-piece-of-mind-vol-3-no-7?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
That's a minimum. A publicly traded company's brand is worth around 40% of its value.
Considering the inflated valuation of Tesla, the value of Tesla's brand is much higher than normal.
I'd say we are looking at 60%+.
#branding #strategy
But aside from that: Musk has torched huge parts of a government that will flail constantly, because of it, for years. If he leaves Trump's eyeline, it will not be long before President Goldfish Brain decides to throw him under the bus for it.
HELL NO.
It's not like Musk is going to give it up without being forced out.
The sad reality of humanity!
In an ideal world Tesla should have Zero sales.