After receiving billions of dollars from the US government, Tesla boss Elon Musk is today calling for an end to US subsidies. According to the Fortune site, the whimsical billionaire has indeed spoken out against the bill on American infrastructure, supported by the Biden administration, which provides for investments of more than 1,000 billion dollars, of which 7.8 billion must be invested in grants for the deployment of new charging stations for electric vehicles.
According to the business manager, it would be good if Congress did not adopt the text. He justified this reaction by the “insane” federal budget deficit affecting the United States, which has already “spent so much money”. In a statement at the top of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, he stressed the need to improve highways and reduce traffic jams but said he was skeptical about the policy of deploying charging stations, judging planned “unnecessary” investments and calling on the government to “end all subsidies”, including those intended for oil and gas companies.
Elon Musk rancunier ?
A dramatic change in tone as Tesla has collected billions of dollars in government grants to grow in recent years. To better understand this demand, we must look at a recent decision by the US government. The latter has indeed announced the establishment of an additional subsidy of 4,500 dollars for electric cars built by unionized employees of the UAW (United Auto Workers, the American automobile union) present only at Ford, GM and Chrysler, effectively excluding Tesla from this policy, the firm being the only major American automaker whose workforce is not unionized.
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Would Elon Musk therefore be resentful and a sore loser? Since these announcements, the relationship between the whimsical billionaire and the White House has indeed cooled considerably. As Fortune recalls, he recently accused the Biden administration of being “controlled by the unions”. Elon Musk is also said to have still not digested the recent investigation by the federal securities regulator against Tesla after a complaint denouncing the lack of safety of solar panels placed on cars.
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