First of all, I would absolutely take delivery on the car. I just got my P3+ last night, and it is a phenomenal car. I took a friend of mine who is a car lover and ev skeptic on a drive, and he was amazed with what Tesla has done with the m3. The car will sell itself, with or without Elon in charge of Tesla.
Second, I am a trader professionally, so i understand intimately how the markets work and the role of short sellers. There are 34mm short shares right now. That means on the overnight crash after the SEC announcement, they made over 1 billion dollars. As an industry professional myself, I have every confidence that these we’ll connected hedge funds have put substantial pressure on the SEC to pursue removal of Musk. The best thing you can do is to call your representatives (they actually do listen when several people call, and having more influence on the SEC than they’d care to admit) and express your frustration over a politically and economically motivated attack on an American company.
Finally, it is important to remember the Tesla is really a battery company, not a car company. And demand for batteries, for grid storage, home storage, electric vehicles produced by other manufacturers, etc. it’s only going to grow as we move away from fossil fuels and towards clean energy. I have every confidence that Tesla will survive, with or without Musk, public or private, domestic or foreign. And even if, worst case scenario, they didn’t, their assets would be bought by other companies, who would continue supporting and making the cars. So there is absolutely no chance of owning a rechargeable paperweight. The only reason I see not to move forward with the purchase, is if you’re buying it solely because of your confidence in Elon, not because you like the car or company—in which case, you probably shouldn’t have ordered it in the first place.