Emperor of Mars: The Official Elon Musk Thread

[Buck_Mulligan]

Not everything is going Musk's way these days. EV sales from most manufacturers were down in the EU in 24, but Tesla performed worse than the average. Sales in Germany were down 41%.  In France in January 2025 sales dropped by 62% giving Tesla a market share of just 5.5%. 
In California in 2024 sales dropped by 36%. He moved Tesla HQ from California to Texas, plus Space X and more, but due to opposition from the Texas Motor Dealers Association he's never been allowed to sell Tesla's in Texas. 
Never imagined I'd be rooting for the Texas Motor Dealers...

[Buck_Mulligan]

Updated EU Tesla numbers for Jan. 2025.

Germany______-59.5%
UK___________-18.2%
France_______-63.4%
Netherlands__-42.5%
Norway_______-40.2%
Spain________-75.4%
Sweden_______-46.0%
Denmark______-40-9%
Portugal_____-31.0%
___________________
Total........-50.4%

[Guybrush]

Updated EU Tesla numbers for Jan. 2025.

Germany______-59.5%
UK___________-18.2%
France_______-63.4%
Netherlands__-42.5%
Norway_______-40.2%
Spain________-75.4%
Sweden_______-46.0%
Denmark______-40-9%
Portugal_____-31.0%
___________________
Total........-50.4%

I love this ❤️

Fuck Elon Musk.

[Psy-Fi]

[Trollheart]

"Come with me, if you wish to retain your job."

If not

"Hasta la vista, baby!"

[DJChameleon]

[Buck_Mulligan]

Globally, Tesla sales were flat in 2024. China and RoW were positive US & EU were negative. In the US Tesla like for like sales were down 11.5%, but the addition of the cyber truck to the lineup kept the fall to 5%. In 24 US EV sales overall were up 7% to 1.3M and a market share of 8%.

2025 is off to a bad start for Tesla. As well as the EU numbers noted above, January sales in China are down 11.5%, California 12%.

[Buck_Mulligan]

In other Elon news...

DOGE employees have gained access to payment and contracting systems at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (Wall Street Journal)

A federal judge issued an order Friday temporarily barring Musk from accessing U.S. Treasury payments data. (Financial Times)

DOGE employee Marko Elez, one of two DOGE members granted access to the Treasury's payment systems, has resigned after the discovery of a social media account he used to promote racism and eugenics. (Wall Street Journal)

There's a chance one of Musk's DOGE engineers, 19-year-old Edward Coristine, would not pass a federal background check under ordinary circumstances. Wired found that Coristine operates a site with a Russian web domain and worked at a tech startup that hired criminal hackers. (Wired)

Polling data from the Economist/YouGov found Republican views on Musk have soured since Trump took office. A survey released Wednesday shows 26% of Republicans want Musk to have "a lot" of influence on Trump, down from 47% when the same question was asked shortly after Trump's victory in November. (The Economist/YouGov)

NASA employees are concerned about the agency's ties to Musk's space exploration company SpaceX following the appointment of Michael Altenhofen, an engineer who spent the last 15 years working for the company. Altenhofen was named a senior advisor to the NASA Administrator. (ArsTechnica)

Musk wanted a non-U.S. citizen to work for DOGE but Trump officials put the kibosh on the idea, fearing the optics of using an immigrant to fire thousands of Americans. (The Atlantic)

DOGE does not want the public to know what it's doing, as evidenced by a 404 Media report on the outfit ordering its employees to stop using Slack as it transitions to a records system not subject to FOIA requests. (404 Media)

Finally, civil servants have informed CBS News that their personnel files were deleted following DOGE's takeover of the Office of Personnel Management's HR databases. The personnel files then suddenly reappeared. "I don't know whether any have been doctored — [it's] more likely that they're running all the documents through AI," one federal employee said. (CBS News/Jennifer Jacobs)

[Trollheart]

Perhaps this will turn out to be a marriage from Hell. Decide yourself who is who.

[Psy-Fi]

Trump says Musk will review "just about" every federal agency

[Trollheart]

An investigation into how Musk is tweeting mis and disinformation, and outright lies. Big surprise.

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/0209/1495442-musks-trump-era-tweets/

[Buck_Mulligan]

Updated EU Tesla numbers for Jan. 2025.

Germany______-59.5%
UK___________-18.2%
France_______-63.4%
Netherlands__-42.5%
Norway_______-40.2%
Spain________-75.4%
Sweden_______-46.0%
Denmark______-40-9%
Portugal_____-31.0%
___________________
Total........-50.4%

When I posted this I didn't know that in January overall BEV sales in Germany were up 53% while Tesla was down 59%. And remember Tesla built it's giga factory in Germany.

[Weekender]

It annoys me that anyone left of center is still using X.

[Trollheart]

Can you say SKYNET?

News Alert: Elon Musk leads offer to buy ChatGPT's parent company for nearly $100 billion


In a high-stakes bid that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk is leading a group of investors that have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion.

Musk has long feuded with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and he has filed a number of legal complaints against the company and Altman, claiming that the AI company and its leadership have misrepresented OpenAI as a philanthropy.

[Buck_Mulligan]

^^^ That might be an admission that "Grok from X.AI is not cutting the mustard.