278 Comments Tesla reportedly supports the Trump administration’s plan to kill the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles – something in direct contradiction to Tesla’s original mission to accelerate the entire industry’s transition to electric transport. Elon Musk, who has both financed and “fully endorsed” Donald Trump, has walked back much of his prior messaging around the need to accelerate the transport and energy sector’s transition to sustainability to address climate change. In fact, during Trump’s prior administration, Musk was part of his “business council”, but he resigned after Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement. Musk has now made it clear that he believes the “woke mind virus” is a bigger threat to humanity than climate change. The CEO even supported Trump when he said he plans to remove the $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles once he is back in power. That’s despite Tesla having lobbied for the credit. The incentive has been supporting Tesla’s sales in the US over the last few years. Musk even laid out a scenario where removing the tax credit would hurt Tesla, but he believes it would hurt other automakers more – removing some of the competition. That’s a direct contradiction to what Musk has said many times in the past, which is to encourage the entire auto industry to go electric. Even more recently, the CEO has complained that the main problem with EV adoption is the cost being to high – something that the tax credit is directly addressing in the US. Tesla now supports removing the tax credit These days, it’s hard to separate Musk and Tesla. Even though he is technically only CEO and minority shareholder, it is widely believed that he controls the board, and, therefore, he is able to do anything unchecked at Tesla.