Elon called Biden a wet sock puppet. Tesla didn't get invited to the EV summit. Tesla is a non-union shop. Could be political. I'd like to think it isn't.
It’s not. That would be a huge violation of law and regulations just to slow down a pretty minor approval for a few days.
WE are keenly interested in it. It’s not a major thing outside Tesla world.
The emails, texts, paper trail, etc on something like that would inevitably surface and cause firings at the top of the EPA and elsewhere.
It’s just a fantasy. Biden has issues related to Tesla but it’s not exactly animosity. He’s an old guy, and and old car guy (corvette), in that mindset of 1964 when GM and Ford and Chrylser were all that counted in the world of cars.... and he’s pro-union and his views of unions were shaped by the era he came up in.
So he just struggles to think outside the Big 3... the Big 3 circa 1964. When he goes to GM and sits in electric hummer? For him it’s like going backstage at a Neil Diamond or Chicago performance. Star struck. While anyone under 65 doesn’t go the concerts and knows they ain’t selling any new material and haven’t for decades.
Some key people around him understand the full importance of Tesla and how it works, what an ass kicking it is delivering to Detroit (or rather, what Detroit is doing to itself) etc and clearly have been counseling him, but it is obviously far from fully taking.
Tesla didn’t get invited to the summit because Elon had said Biden’s pet Build Back Better bill should be shot down entirely and Biden’s aides had no idea what Elon might do or say. With the White House as a platform. What would YOU have done in that position if you still dreamed of passing a bill?
Elon made the wet puppet crack because he just couldn’t understand Biden’s dinosaur-car mindset, which wasn’t helpful. But Elon lives in the world of rationality and struggles to respond well to someone who doesn’t.
Biden meanwhile def needs to start mentioning Tesla, and not just as part of the pack, but as out ahead on its own doing the stuff he says he wants done for climate and the US economy. But regardless of these two people not being able to communicate, this administration doesn’t do BS revenge regulating, no matter how much the fanboy echo chamber wants to bounce that back and forth. No real examples of it anywhere to be found. Just twitter, forum and youtube “experts."
