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On Thursday, billionaire Tesla founder escalated his dispute with the Biden administration as the electric car maker met with top business executives, including General Motors and Ford CEOs, to push for President Biden’s “Better Recovery” bill. did not attend the summit again.
Musk was particularly outraged by Biden’s Twitter account, which included a video of the president standing with GM CEO Mary Bara and announcing that “companies like GM and Ford are building more electric vehicles at home here than ever before.”
“Biden is treating the American public like idiots,” Musk said.
In another tweet, Mask joked It was Biden ‘wet [sock] a puppet in human form. ”
The White House has not yet responded to Musk’s comments.
Biden has made it a priority to invest in electric vehicles and other green energy technologies as part of his spending project. The Better Reconstruction Act was passed in the House, but was stalled in the Senate due to opposition from major moderate Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kirsten Cinema of Arizona.
The president is backing a federal tax cut for electric vehicles as part of an emission reduction plan.
Musk has been increasingly critical of the Biden administration since Tesla, a leading electric vehicle maker, was not invited to the White House electric vehicle summit last August.
Biden, along with executives from Ford, GM and Stellantis, elaborated on his decree that by 2030, half of the cars sold in the U.S. will be zero-emission cars.
When asked why Tesla did not join the event, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the three firms involved were “the three largest employers of United Automobile Workers” – which is why Tesla’s hourly workers were rejected for not being a union. indicates .
Musk said in a speech at the Codex Conference in California last September that Tesla had been excluded from the electric vehicle summit. The billionaire said White House officials “never talked about Tesla.”
“Does that sound a bit biased or something?” said Musk at that moment.
“It’s not the most friendly administration,” Musk added, adding that the Biden administration “seems to be controlled by the unions.”
Tesla holds a significant share of the current U.S. electric car market. The company delivered a record 936,172 electric vehicles in fiscal 2021, an increase of 87% over the previous year.
Tesla reported fourth-quarter sales of $ 17.72 billion this week, higher than Wall Street expectations.
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