Tesla Drivers Are Getting Fed Up With Elon Musk’s Twitter Meltdowns – By Ian Sherr (CNET) / Dec 23, 2022
Surveys find Tesla’s brand image is sinking, while sales people say “a lot” of cancelling customers blame Musk’s Twitter behavior.
The last straw for Heather was Elon Musk’s attacks on Anthony Fauci, one of the world’s most respected immunologists and the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. For Logan, it was when Musk ordered employees to stop paying Twitter’s bills to vendors for services they’d already rendered.
For Tom, Musk’s corrosive and unstable leadership of Twitter since he bought the social media site at the end of October was just too much.
And when each of them called to cancel their Tesla car preorders or to terminate their car leases over the past few months, saying Musk’s toxic behavior was the reason, each heard pretty much the same thing from the Tesla salesperson on the other end of the line: “We’re hearing a lot of that.”
For the past two months, Musk, 51, has been managing Twitter as its new owner and CEO, after paying $44 billion to buy the company. Now it seems the toll of his chaotic leadership style, while also increasingly splitting his time, is wearing on his other companies. The world’s second-richest person is also CEO of electric car manufacturer Tesla and rocket maker SpaceX.
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