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The Guardian view on China's EV breakthrough: helped by the kind of strategic state Elon Musk despises | Editorial

Editorial: BYD, a Chinese carmaker once dismissed by Tesla’s CEO, claims to have outpaced western rivals with charging tech that’s as fast as filling petrol engines
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Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, once thought the idea that China’s BYD could compete with his company was laughable. In 2011, he smugly dismissed the Chinese carmaker as unimpressive, its products unattractive and its technology “not very strong”. He’s not laughing now – and not just because Tesla’s stock has plummeted amid a boycott by motorists protesting against his embrace of far-right politics. More pressingly, Mr Musk, like other western carmakers, has been outpaced by BYD.

Last week, the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer unveiled new charging technology that, it says, is capable of delivering 400km (249 miles) of driving range in just five minutes – as quick as filling up a petrol car. The system, released next month, will be fitted in two EVs, priced from 270,000 yuan (£29,000) – comparable to Tesla’s most affordable model in China. Yet BYD claims to quadruple Tesla’s kilometres-per-minute charging rate. Technological supremacy at a competitive price may help to explain why BYD now sells seven times as many cars in China as Tesla.


A lack of fast-charging infrastructure may delay BYD’s progress in the west. But that shouldn’t diminish the scale of China’s technological advance. It was only in 2015 that Beijing launched its Made in China 2025 plan, targeting 10 strategic industries – including EVs – for rapid indigenous development. China’s approach follows a familiar playbook. Just as the US once did, China shifted from exporting raw materials to becoming a manufacturing powerhouse by protecting domestic industries, acquiring foreign technology – sometimes dubiously – and prioritising exports. Taking cues from history, Beijing has used tariffs, subsidies and state investment to dominate industries from steel and electronics to EVs.
 
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Tesla sales plummet amid Elon Musk backlash

The sales of vehicles made by Musk's Tesla fell sharply in the European Union in the first months of 2025.
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ales of vehicles made by Elon Musk's Tesla plummeted in the first two months of 2025 in the European Union (EU), industry group The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) said on Tuesday morning.

The number of Tesla's new vehicle registrations in the EU dropped 49 percent year-on-year in January and February to 19,046.

Newsweek has emailed Tesla's European press office for comment.

Elon Musk's Politics​

The fall comes amid Musk's increased political activity in recent months, both in the U.S. as a close political ally and funder of President Donald Trump, and his getting behind nationalist parties in Europe such as Germany's AfD.

Tesla's troubles are unsettling some investors, who worry CEO Musk's actions are harming the company and its stock price by exposing it to unnecessary political risk.
 
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Tesla sales plummet amid Elon Musk backlash

The sales of vehicles made by Musk's Tesla fell sharply in the European Union in the first months of 2025.
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ales of vehicles made by Elon Musk's Tesla plummeted in the first two months of 2025 in the European Union (EU), industry group The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) said on Tuesday morning.

The number of Tesla's new vehicle registrations in the EU dropped 49 percent year-on-year in January and February to 19,046.

Newsweek has emailed Tesla's European press office for comment.

Elon Musk's Politics​

The fall comes amid Musk's increased political activity in recent months, both in the U.S. as a close political ally and funder of President Donald Trump, and his getting behind nationalist parties in Europe such as Germany's AfD.

Tesla's troubles are unsettling some investors, who worry CEO Musk's actions are harming the company and its stock price by exposing it to unnecessary political risk.
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What? Having your high-profile CEO make Nazi salutes is bad for business? Who would have thought that?
 
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Canada freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs

Canada has frozen $43 million in payments to Tesla pending a line-by-line investigation into its last-minute surge in EV rebate claims.
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Canada has frozen $43 million in payments to Tesla pending a line-by-line investigation into its last-minute surge in EV rebate claims made on the final weekend of the government program.
The American EV maker run by U.S. presidential adviser Elon Musk will also be excluded from all future EV rebate programs as long as tariffs are in place, former transport minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement.
 
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Trump’s Faith Adviser Promises ‘7 Supernatural Blessings’ for $1,000 — Including God Going After Your Enemies

President Donald Trump's White House faith adviser Paula White is urging her followers to send her ministry $1,000 before Easter in order to "release 7 specific supernatural blessings" that include God assigning an angel to you, being an enemy to your enemies, giving you prosperity, and curing...
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I am pretty sure Jesus said "Give me your money and I'll smite your enemies, as well as 4 other miracles. Say you Jebidiah, I hear you could use a larger penis, well let's see what I can do for you. How many of pieces of silver is it worth to you ? And if you donate now I'll turn as much water as you can carry into wine... "
 

Several analysts on Wall Street see a clear winner emerging from President Donald Trump’s new auto tariff policy: Tesla.

Trump announced on Wednesday that all cars not made in the U.S. would be slapped with a 25% tariff beginning next week. The news sent shares of major American car producers in diverging directions in Thursday’s trading as Wall Street analyzed who would be most and least hurt by the policy change.




So far, multiple analysts see Elon Musk’s electric vehicle giant as a relative beneficiary given its domestic production. The stock rose more than 5%.

Put simply: “Tesla wins, Detroit bleeds,” wrote Bernstein analyst Daniel Roeska in a Thursday note to clients.
 
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Inside Maye Musk’s Cozy Relationship With China

As Elon Musk continues to expand his political power in the US, his mother has repeatedly traveled to China to speak at events, model for Chinese brands, and promote Tesla.
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In January, with a nationwide ban on TikTok looming, hundreds of thousands of people in the US began flocking to another Chinese social media app called RedNote—only to find that Maye Musk, Elon Musk’s mother, had already established a relatively large audience on the platform. Maye, who has become a celebrity in her own right in China over the past few years, had over 600,000 followers on RedNote when the flood of Americans arrived.

“I need to find the block button,” one American user commented under Maye’s latest video at the time, which has received over 10,000 likes. “I can’t believe I’m witnessing American people confronting Musk’s mom to her face,” another comment in Chinese reads. Shortly afterward, Maye’s comment section on RedNote was closed for several weeks. New comments didn’t start showing up again until early February.

The incident represented a rare moment when the parallel public images Maye Musk has created for herself collided. In China, the 76 year-old has built a largely apolitical reputation as a “silver influencer,” fashion model for local brands, and book author who regularly garners positive coverage in Chinese state media, The New York Times previously reported. Last week, she made another trip to China, this time to the city of Wuxi, where she was invited to watch a drone show, promoted traditional crafts, and posed with a special Tesla model that comes in different colorways sold only in Asia.
 
March 28 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Friday that his xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $45 billion, including $12 billion debt.
"xAI and X's futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent," Musk said in a post on X, adding that the combined company would be valued at $80 billion.


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He founded an ai company, raised money for it, then used that company to buy him out of owning X directly
 
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