Elon Musk was speaking to Tesla staff in Austin, Texas, last Thursday when he admitted: “I’m stretched pretty thin. I have like 17 jobs.” The meeting seemed hastily arranged. Employees were notified shortly before the event,

Elon Musk’s Tesla. “Musk is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump is at this point,” said Cousins, a longtime activist who organized an anti-Tesla rally in a deep-red district in Central Florida last weekend,

EV brands Rivian, BYD, and Lucid take the wheel to satisfy drivers who are sick of Musk’s conduct. “It’s time for me to divest from all things Elon,” one marketing exec, now an ex-Tesla owner, tells VF.