“The easiest thing to say is, don’t antagonize your core customers,” Yale economist and study author Kenneth Gillingham said.
A working paper issued this month found Musk’s “polarizing and partisan actions” over the past three years cost Tesla between 1 million and 1.26 million vehicles in U.S. sales, while boosting the sales of its EV competitors by 17% to 22%.
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