Tesla’s shares on Wednesday abolished early losses after a Politico report said the company’s executive director Elon Musk was ready to support his obligations in the Trump administration “in the coming weeks”.
The shares of the electric car manufacturer dropped to 4% in early trade after the company reported its bigger quarter for sales for three years.
According to Rachel Baid of Politico, President Trump “said to his inner circle, including members of his cabinet that Elon Musk would give way to his present role in the coming weeks.”
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Bade’s report comes only hours before Trump is ready to hold a press conference outlining his new tariff plans for what the president called “Liberation Day.”
A senior official said the Politico Musk is likely to retain an “informal role” as a White House adviser. This report follows the call of some of the Wall Street, the most Dan Ives of Uedbush, a long -time Tesla Bull, this Musk had to “change the course” and redirect its energy to the car after the decline of 50% of its maximums reached December 2024.
Earlier on Wednesday, the company reported global deliveries for the first quarter, which widely missed the estimates, as demand problems clearly came across the electric vehicle manufacturer.
For the quarter, Tesla reported 336 681 supplies against 390 342, calculated on a Bloomberg consensus, making it the biggest quarter for supplies from the second quarter of 2022.
“While changing the Model Y lines through the four of our factories has led to a loss of several weeks of production through Q1, the ramp of the new model Y continues to go well,” Tesla says in a statement. The refreshed Model Y went on sale worldwide in March, with some analysts citing the change as a reason for a depressed demand for their best-selling vehicle.
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Tesla also said it has produced 362 615 units worldwide for the quarter, has 10.4 GWh energy storage products and will report a profit from the first quarter on Tuesday, April 22.
Tesla sales are stopped in most of their global territories. Earlier this week, Tesla registration data in key European regions fell in March, another sign that sales were still sliding into one of its key markets, as the Tesla brand also made a hit due to the right political activities of Executive Director Elon Musk.
Only 3157 Tesla EVS was registered in France, which is 36.8% compared to a year ago, on official data cited by Reuters. Norway saw only 2211 registrations, which is 63.9%. Sweden of 911 is only 1%.