Our current administration is damaging to the country. This anti-Musk insanity s...

treflop · 2024-10-20T06:10:33.000000Z

This is some conspiracy BS.

Why would Tesla have been invited to a summit that was primarily centered around United Auto Workers? Tesla is non-union. “EV” was only a pretext.

The summit didn’t invite any non-US carmakers, who also make EVs. It was an event about UAW. Everyone invited was UAW.

The administration even said as much: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/05/white-house-answers-why...

travisporter · 2024-10-20T13:27:05.000000Z

Tesla still gets tax credits and NEVI funds.

One side accuses govt of favoritism and corruption and are trying hard to make that true. The truth is most people try to do the right thing.

skellington · 2024-10-20T08:27:46.000000Z

We know that. The problem was the theater. Biden praising GM for "leading" in the EV space when they are so many years behind Tesla. Even now they sell a tiny fraction of the EVs.

UAW will be the reason why the big 3 are all bankrupt in 10 years.

bufferoverflow · 2024-10-22T08:11:48.000000Z

Your gaslighting is just sad. It was called "EV summit", not "United Auto Workers summit".

And your argument about non-US carmakers makes even less sense. We're discussing the top us EV manufacturer not being invited to the "EV summit".

Please stop being so dishonest, you're lying for political bias.

fallingknife · 2024-10-20T09:23:44.000000Z

That excuse was made up after the fact. They didn't even have their message straight. One of the links in the article is about Pete Buttigieg giving a totally different explanation as to why Tesla wasn't invited: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/05/u-s-secretary-of-transp...

If it was a UAW event, perhaps he should have called it that and not the "EV Summit". Elon Musk has every right to be annoyed that he was not invited to such an event, although he has taken it 100x too far. But Elon Musk isn't a public official and Biden is the president. He has public duties. He ought to have been smart enough not to snub the richest man in the world, who rightfully should have been invited, over a stupid PR event.