Comment by ben_w

I don't speak for mullingitover, but… "other" reasons? Surely all the stuff he's done are the reasons?

And Musk seems to have tarred himself:

Tesla sales are down a lot even in places where the market is growing, in part because it was lefty liberals who were the original primary market for EVs.

Musk's support for Trump (who openly hates eco-friendly anything and appears to be tanking the US economy with inflation and tariffs and the only growth sector being AI DCs) also appears to be the reason the entire EV market in the US is going down.

He's also having spats with various national leaders. But… look, in UK, Keir Starmer has catastrophically poor opinion poll ratings, Musk's managing to bob around the same level, slightly worse, in part due to tweeting things seen as calling for a civil war in the UK.

Similar in Germany. Where the Gigafactory is… ah, still a building site, not having needed to expand to the full potential of the water licence it had. (A factoid I only know about due to comparisons with the combined AI data centre use across the state of Arizona).