At the risk of turning off the fans who jumped first for EVs, Elon Musk has dug in with the world’s most prominent climate sceptic: Donald Trump.
It was not that long ago that Elon Musk was globally viewed as a climate change hero, the man who, at the helm of Tesla, had almost single-handedly made electric cars sexy and scaled up production of the batteries that drive them.
But even as battery deployment surges, EV sales have slowed, and some critics point out that the slowdown coincides with Musk’s embrace of a political movement that has been hostile to EVs and their early adopters. Trump is a fossil fuel champion and has long campaigned on the slogan “Drill, baby, drill”.
In the face of a share price that at the time was down 13 per cent over the year, he voiced scepticism about Musk’s focus on robotic and self-driving cars. In Australia, the battery EV sector has seen a drop in sales of 19 per cent, while sales of hybrids have grown, says the chief executive of the Electric Vehicle Council of Australia, Samantha Johnson.
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